Sentences with phrase «remaining hostage»

Otherwise they see suburban families remaining hostage to increasing oil prices.

«We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages.

He threw them in prison, then after three days, with mock religiosity he released them, explaining that he stood for justice; but one of their number must remain a hostage while the rest went home with food for their households.

The army operation in Mumbai is close to completion, with Indian army commandos raiding the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, as well as a Jewish centre to rescue remaining hostages.

The long (long) awaited remake of the 1984 cult classic was completed almost three years ago and remained a hostage to MGM's bankruptcy proceedings ever since.

Making only the minimum payments on credit card accounts each month is a sure way to stay in debt and remain hostage to the credit card companies for decades.

In the end, as long as the Republican Party remains hostage to factions holding to such fossilized notions, my guess is it will be increasingly marginalized, given the reality that Americans of both parties, outside a small bubble, are very enthusiastic about the responsibility, even the patriotic duty, to use a great gift — oil — more thriftily.

Not exact matches

«It also remains important that members of Congress do not hold funding for our troops hostage for immigration policy.»

«These men will have important intelligence about the fates of western hostages in their custody, including some who remain captives of Isis,» he added.

The fact remains that they are holding food and water hostage until they are given land to build those churches.

The released hostages are the final remaining of the captives who were kidnapped a year ago from villages along the Khabour River in northern Syria.

The group, which is still accepting donations to help the hostages heal, stated, «They have remained steadfast in their Christian faith despite a horrific year - long trial.»

Harry remains under water because he does not trust that the school will ensure the safety of these «hostages.»

Luther was consulted on both occasions and tried to persuade the Elector to let Melancthon go, but the Elector had no special reason for sending hostages to either country, and Melancthon had to remain in Saxony.

Despite recent rumours regarding Raiola holding us hostage over Kean's first professional contract, which he won't be able to sign for a year or two, it looks as though he will remain with our youth squad for the current season.

For 74 terrifying days they were hostages in their own land, and remain incredibly grateful that British forces arrived to set them free again.

He said «we working day and night in cooperation with international partners to release the remaining girls and other hostages — men, women and children.

A spokesman at the Foreign Office told inthenews.co.uk it was doing «everything we can» to secure the release of the hostages and remained in «close contact» with their families while negotiations with kidnappers continued.

However, having been treated and certified okay, Lt. Col. Abu Ali who said he had an unfinished business of annihilating Boko Haram terrorists, liberating both hostages and remaining villages, returned to battle but this time with the brand new T - 72 long range battle tank.

But so long as Shelly Silver remains speaker of the Assembly, Cuomo's governorship will be held hostage by Shelly's corruption.

He also described international figures backing the Remain campaign as appearing in «Downing Street hostage videos».

He said: «People don't understand when they see these Downing Street hostage videos - these people coming through Downing Street and giving these endorsements of the Remain campaign - what they don't understand is they are not speaking for the vast majority of British business.»

When Krauss and his partners, Demens (Jack Reynor) and Flynn (Ben O'Toole), start pulling victims into separate rooms to abuse them, extracting screams and fearful noises, the door shuts on us and the other hostages, until it takes us inside, where we can see the «death game» in process, in which the officer shoots his gun at the floor, then warns the victim to remain silent, leaving those outside to assume he's dead and fear for their own lives.

When «Argo» turns serious, it starts to drag, in large part because the subjects of the operation (fully aware of the 52 other Americans that didn't escape the embassy and remained in a perilous hostage situation) lack the depth of the cunning Mendez, the focus of our sympathies when he encounters hesitations from the Americans to play along.

The remaining 45 minutes has him trying to finagle his way out of a hostage situation that has no game plan whatsoever — much like the movie itself.

The objectives vary by gametype — sometimes there's a bomb to defuse, other times a hostage to rescue — but the core gameplay flow remains the same.

As a photographer, my fate is to remain forever hostage to my own gaze.

-- with a great show of reluctance relinquished the bed to Mr. Goncourt as a strange form of pledge, a hostage in reverse — a talisman, perhaps — assuring that this would always and forever remain his vehicle.

While there have been countless cases of cyberattacks to date, one of the most notable DDoS attacks remains the WannaCry ransomware which held over 200,000 computers in the world hostage back in 2017 and demanded bitcoin payments.