Sentences with phrase «taken as a hostage»

Sardino had the idea that he would come up and they would let the chancellor leave and take him as their hostage, if you wanted to call it.»

Vivian Fontaine (Ashley Bell), an innocent bystander they've taken as a hostage, is in the trunk of their car.

Now this is your chance to achieve your dream and prove your skill to become the next Super Heroes!Now the world is threatened by a new enemy and good people are taken as hostage.

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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.

Perhaps the relatively swift conclusion to the Goodyear standoff will show union leaders once and for all that hostage - taking doesn't work as a negotiating tactic.

Is this remarkable episode, variously described by some observers as a Tea Party «hostage - taking» or even «suicide bombing,» going to end in the unthinkable?

Taking hostage a man who is regarded in many quarters as a hero is unlikely to curry favor in other European capitals or bolster the Spanish government's already tarnished image in the international press.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

A man writes to me about being taken hostage with his family and watching helplessly as the intruders pressed guns against his children's noses while his wife and daughter were threatened with rape.

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

But eventually the mayor was taken prisoner and beheaded, and the Augustinians took his four - year - old son into protective custody, as a hostage in case of the situation worsening with reprisals to be taken by the family of the murdered man.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

I am sad for our club as we have let it be taken hostage.

In 1985 as we floundered in the league and Brady won some special award for services to Italian football, I became obsessed with the idea of robbing a bank, taking everyone hostage and demanding that unless Liam Brady was flown over, resigned for Arsenal, and agreed to a sex change paid for by the bank, I would have no choice but to release the hostages.

NY1's intrepid political director Bob Hardt is otherwise indisposed (no word on whether he has been taken hostage by allies of a certain gubernatorial nominee as a result of sparking Lasagnagate), and so I will be live blogging the leaders meeting from the studio with the assistance of input from CapTon's Mike Whittemore and Kaitlyn Ross, who are in the Red Room.

Apparently, SU students barricaded the campus and forced the school to shut down classes, but never took anyone hostage — at least not as Bennett recalls the incident.

And as if that is not enough, we were served the salacious tales of how some unnamed Governors once «kidnapped» Vice President, held him hostage and demanded that he resigned to pave the way for Senate President, Bukola Saraki to take over as President.

The off - duty soldier was shot as the assailants fled, taking two other officers hostage.

I see it as food rules have taken your brain hostage.

Sometimes it feels like I take the weekend hostage and set it free only as a reward for a productive week.

At the execution ground, Zhesan takes the Emperor as hostage, to make them release Tianxin.

It is a detailed recreation of a terrifying time in American history as Islamist militants took 52 Americans hostage in support of the Iranian Revolution.

This movie starts off with a prison bus going down a empty stretch of road and on the other side the only car insight driven by one Dr Douglas Madsen as these two come closer and closer together something happens that sends the Dr's car to collide with the prison bus freeing four prisoners who decide to take the good Dr hostage and retreat to a remote cabin in the woods that just happens to be home of a family that is more dangerous then the prisoners now with no way out the prisoners and the hostage must fight to stay alive against the people in the cabin.

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.

For anyone not familiar with the events in Entebbe, the film is engaging enough as a historical account of a watershed moment in how the world chose to deal with terrorism — the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces prompted governments around the world to reassess the way they responded to acts of hostage taking.

A cold - blooded killer (Johnny Cash) poses as a door - to - door guitar instructor to take a bank managers family hostage and hold them for a ransom.

A woman panics in a hostage situation and asks where she is and pleads for help; she offers a man money to help her until a hijacker comes and takes her outside (we hear her yelling as she goes and we see her unharmed later).

Walter Baltzer's thriller Family Under Siege stars Mel Harris as Fay Baxter, a mother who must defend her family after they are taken hostage by three bad guys.

When a band of four Somali pirates fails in its bid to take over the container ship, it flees in the ship's emergency lifeboat, taking the eponymous Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) as a hostage to ransom and drawing down the might of the U.S. Navy's anti-piracy task force operating around the Horn of Africa.

Jackson took Judge Harold Haley, a prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages and Haley was subsequently killed while the teenager was trying to escape.

It isn't an accident that Certain Women's closest brush with genre — when attorney Laura's (Laura Dern) enraged client, Fuller (Jared Harris), takes a night watchman hostage — is both the film's only portrait of male indignation, and the only vignette that's deflated in near - comic anticlimax as quickly as it reaches its apex.

But on Nov. 4, 1979, the strident protest gained violent momentum as the crowd surged over the wall, broke the gates and stormed the compound, taking 60 Americans hostage.

When a group of friends in Boston, who also work together as bank robbers, run into issues during a bank heist, they decide to take a hostage (Hall).

And then the film gets downright brutal when Mature, taken hostage along with an Amish family (with Ernest Borgnine as the moral patriarch), takes a stand against the robbers, who have already left a couple of victims in their wake.

But in a moment of betrayal, the pirates did what pirates do; they take Captain Phillips hostage as they escape from the newly armed crew in a lifeboat that's on the ship.

The film follows Bello, as a single mother, who is taken hostage along with her child by a relentless bank robber.

Masked intruders try to take them hostage, but as they fight back, the friends get a taste for something more than the will to survive.

This sets in motion a chase with Will escaping custody, taking Weis's daughter Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) as a hostage, and Timekeeper Leon (Cillian Murphy) hot on his trail.

Even more risible, however, was Jason Reitman's slushy melodrama Labor Day, which starred Josh Brolin as a convict who escapes from jail and takes a woman (Kate Winslet) and her son hostage.

But when things don't go as planned for the desperate hijackers, Muse takes Phillips hostage and escapes on the ship's lifeboat, leading to a tense standoff between the Somali pirates and the U.S. Navy.

Then things get political as Iranian extremists take over the Magical Studio in the Sky and take the hosts hostage.

The action thriller has some serious Panic Room vibes and stars Union as a woman visiting her recently decreased father's secluded, hyper - secure estate when burglars arrive, locking her out and taking her children hostage in demand of whatever her father had locked up inside.

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.

George Clooney stars as a financial personality who gets taken hostage after a tech stock plummets in the first trailer for Money Monster.

Trends of the Year: Sex addiction (Don Jon, Thanks for Sharing), shipwrecks (Gravity, All Is Lost), the skin trade (Lovelace, The Look of Love), taking the White House hostage (Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down), the apocalypse as comedy (This Is the End, The World's End), slow cartoon protagonists who nonetheless win the big race (Turbo, Planes), likable character actors who are revealed to be villains in the final reel (Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, The Lone Ranger)

Arriving an hour late, Falk and company burst onto the scene with excuses and apologies, and somehow, Falk has taken the dinner hostage and begins telling a tale of his time in the Amazon, watching helplessly as Tse Tse flies the size of dogs would snatch up «little brown children in their beaks and fly away.»

Watch as the original Horrible Bosses gang have a lot of fun with their cell block reunion, where they all might wind up after they decide to take the businessman's son hostage, holding him for ransom.

A much better version of the same idea was Joe Martin's Us and Them as down and out Jack Roth takes a bunch of rich people hostage in their own home and proceeds to torture them.

He took the job as police chief there to get away from the pressures of LA hostage negotiations - and to escape his guilt.