Sentences with phrase «such as hostage»

Also you have situations that are completely unrealistic such as hostage situations in which outlaw bikers show up and provide intel.

Not exact matches

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued stark warnings to health care organizations over the threats of phishing emails and malware such as ransomware, which take data hostage in exchange for recompense.

With actual net neutrality rules in the United States in limbo if not dead, large network owners such as Comcast are effectively free to engage in whatever activities they want, which is exactly how this situation has been perceived; Netflix had no choice but to give in to its customers being held hostage.

This training will include learning how to react in terrifying scenarios, such as being held hostage.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Such vote of confidence, which is continually passed on us from time to time as a people with pride and integrity, can not be rubbished by any negative personality that may be holding our people hostage as of today.

In addition, Arkin says that the laser weapons are being placed in the hands of the Pentagon's special operations forces, which conduct unconventional missions such as rescuing hostages and intercepting terrorists.

«That could allow attackers to hold hostage critical systems such as water treatment plants and manufacturing facilities.

Give Affleck and fellow producers Grant Heslov and George Clooney chutzpah points for trying to apply this Howard Hawks - style workplace - comedy approach to such a catastrophic event as the 1979 Iranian revolution and U.S. hostage - taking.

In short order they are run off the highway by some cartoon banditos led by John Goodman, and Doug (poor Justin Bartha, who in the course of these films has spent more screentime with a bag on his head than anyone since John Hurt in The Elephant Man) is taken hostage until such time as the guys can locate the whereabouts of... wait for it... yes, Lesley Chow (Ken Jeong)-- who has made off with a goodly pile of Goodman's loot.

Believing they had killed his daughter after they took her hostage for leverage added a bit more to his character, such as his line in the previous episode about how «people are monsters only when Americans are killed» and his scene with Miranda Otto was well acted.

For her part, Toni Collette, also a great actress in suitable roles such as the terrorized Dr. Ellen Sanders to assassin Duncan Carlisle, played by Dylan McDermott on the TV series «Hostages.»

As his Michael Dawson and a few others are held hostage by a robber (Eduardo Yañez) in a middle - of - nowhere convenience store, Foxx has his moments, such as when a spontaneous rendition of Earth, Wind and Fire's «Reasons» spurs on a mass singalonAs his Michael Dawson and a few others are held hostage by a robber (Eduardo Yañez) in a middle - of - nowhere convenience store, Foxx has his moments, such as when a spontaneous rendition of Earth, Wind and Fire's «Reasons» spurs on a mass singalonas when a spontaneous rendition of Earth, Wind and Fire's «Reasons» spurs on a mass singalong.

But as General Benjamin and Carmen and Ishmael and their comrades became more deeply and personally entangled with their hostages, I kept wondering if such a thing were possible now: if we could still cross the borders of language and circumstance, of politics and violence, to show each other compassion — and even more, to love each other.

While all of the essential elements are there, such as a loved one held hostage to force the main character's hand, a high - ranking government official with a lot to lose, plus a tribe of varied bad guys, it would be easy to think you've read this story somewhere before, except for the fact that the author does a great job of drawing the reader in through a very readable voice.

The mission types are extensive, such as: hostage recovery, invasion, family, explosive, and even Grand Theft Auto missions which have been updated, and many more.

Each mission in the game has different requirements, such as rescuing hostages, collecting treasure, defeating all the enemies in an area among others.

Developed by Irrational Games, SWAT 4 allows players to take control of a squad of up to five police officers tasked with performing dangerous operations such as high - risk arrests, hostage rescue and counter-terrorism.

Remnant Resistance mode requires online connectivity as it allows players to create and play their own missions and share them globally with players for everyone to be able to play each other's missions; comprising of five stages worth of objectives with four objectives per stage such as gathering intel involving enemy attack plans, collecting ammo, scavenging supplies, recovering relics, rescuing hostages and more besides.

Recent canvases (now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery's The School in Kinderhook, New York) embedded with acoustic foam respond to research into violent sounds, such as the air raid siren she heard as a child during the Gulf War; while others adopt poses from a U.S. military pamphlet filled with pictograms around scenarios involving hostages, smuggling, and weapon identification.

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.

Canada says that developing nations will not walk away from the talks because they have too much to lose — essentially saying that developed nations can hold support, such as technology transfer and adaptation financing, hostage while eroding the entire negotiating process.

That said, of course it's exploitative to hold concepts such as «massive campaigns to mislead» hostage in unrealistic goose chases where the main function is to advance political goals.

Lawyers are going to demand real time protection from such malicious software as Ransomware that holds their data hostage until the desired ransom is paid.

Cybersecurity is a critical topic as people scramble to address the increasing danger of being hacked; being infected by malware such as Trojans, worms, and key loggers; or becoming the latest victim of ransomware that holds digital data hostage until they pay the ransom for the decryption of locked data or the physical theft of a laptop, smartphone, or USB device.

In some cases, the travel insurance will cover other costs, such as experts to help negotiate the hostage's release.

Such as Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, who held an immigrant woman hostage in an attempt to block her constitutional right to obtain an abortion?

Brief Notes presents short reports of ongoing research into such areas as child hostages, the child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome, violence in teen dating relationships, sexually abused adolescent females living in a group home setting, and childhood sexual abuse among clinicians working with sex offenders

From holding immigrant women hostage to deny their right to safe, legal abortion to attacking more than 62 million women's access to birth control and evidence - based programs such as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), Trump appointees have abused their power to advance an anti-reproductive rights agenda — and they show no sign of letting up.

If for no other reason such as unethical or conflict of interest or reduction of promised fiduciary duty, it's the dirty little secret Realtors can utilize to hold hostage all competitors.

Mr. Bakke served in the U.S. Naval Reserve for 14 years and was a former F - 14 aviator, attaining more than 1000 flight hours with direct involvement in such world crisis situations as the Iranian hostage rescue effort and the Iran - Iraq war.