Sentences with phrase «used as hostages»

Research indicates that witnessing DV can involve a broad range of incidents including: hearing the violence, being used as a physical weapon, being forced to watch / participate in the assault, being informed that they are to blame for the violence, being used as a hostage, defending a parent, and / or having to intervene or stop the violence from occurring.

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Investigators have tracked the provenance of the grenade and say it came from the same batch as those used by the Hague hostage - takers and had been stolen from a US army base in 1972.

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.»

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.

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.

Her doctoral thesis entitled «United States Presidential Decision - Making and the Use of Force during Crises in the Middle East and North Africa: 1979 - 2009» examined the American use of force in the Middle East and North Africa, utilising the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979), the Bombing of Libya (1986), the Gulf War (1991), and the Iraq War (2003) as case studiUse of Force during Crises in the Middle East and North Africa: 1979 - 2009» examined the American use of force in the Middle East and North Africa, utilising the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979), the Bombing of Libya (1986), the Gulf War (1991), and the Iraq War (2003) as case studiuse of force in the Middle East and North Africa, utilising the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979), the Bombing of Libya (1986), the Gulf War (1991), and the Iraq War (2003) as case studies.

One way government compete with one another is by taxing you in front and promise to pay it back latter, thereby retaining citizens by using your investments as hostage.

He is, tragically, the victim of a growing proclivity of the Chinese government to use children of rights lawyers and activists as hostages to press their parents.

Dems will continue using the Medicaid expansion to paint GOP governors in purple or blue states as hostage to a national Tea Party agenda.

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Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery.

You play as a type of robotic cop (hmmm...) who is tasked with ensuring society's safety and used to assassinate violent targets and defuse hostage situations.

It's also worth nothing that she's the one female character, with the possible exception of Soledad O'Brien playing herself, who isn't used in the film as a pawn or hostage, which is about all we get from Amy Adams «Lois Lane (who's apparently as addicted to stilettos as Bryce Dallas Howard in «Jurassic World»), Diane Lane «s Martha Kent or Holly Hunter «s all - too - brief turn as a Kentucky senator who squares off against Luthor.

Downey stars as dashing billionaire playboy Tony Stark — part Howard Hughes, part Errol Flynn — who leads a life unencumbered by reflection until he's captured and held hostage in Afghanistan by terrorists using his company's weapons.

If Educators were really part of the change as you suggest then they would forgo their Teachers Unions which for the most part is used to power play politicians and to hold parents hostage.

One committee chairman in the New Hampshire House admitted in a rare moment of candor that he intends to use schools as a political hostage in his grand negotiating scheme.

But the religious hardliners on the Revolutionary Council used the hostage crisis as an opportunity to purge moderates from the leadership ranks.

Amazon's attempt to stop customers buying Hachette books as a way of putting pressure on the publisher also prompted outrage from almost 1,000 authors, including Donna Tartt, Salman Rushdie, John Grisham and Stephen King, who signed a petition demanding Amazon stop using writers as hostages in its negotiations.

You have a cashback card masquerading as a miles earning card, holding your points hostage until you use them to «book travel.»

Cappy tells Mario that Bowser has taken his sister, Tiara, hostage to use as Princess Peach's wedding tiara.

Players need to be conscious of everything from hostages which can be used as currency to revive killed teammates to security cameras which can be disabled in order to reduce the amount of intel available to SWAT and hostage extraction squads.

Silver's lawyers claim that his original deposit money was used as a «hostage» to demand further payments.

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.

As if encrypting files alone is not enough to deal with, certain types of malware will execute DDoS attacks using the computers held hostage.

Entrusted with the responsibility of side - handle baton and weaponless self - defense instructor for the State of California instructing officers in all prisons throughout California, on the Honor Guard as well as the Hostage Negotiation Management Team, and Use of Force Weapons instructor with an AK - 47 and.38 Side arm.

a) Sounds to me like the same strategy as was used by the «Sovereignty - Association» crew at the Constitutional level — asking for special exemptions AND $ $ compensation - for - services - provided - locally, expecting / demanding «special status» within the national organization to recognize inherent cultural / language differences, legal uniqueness (rooted in BNA & pre-Confed special - arrangements) blah blah blah - while attempting to hold the whole organization hostage / in doubt, while angling for a better deal — settled in desperation / exasperation in order to make the problem «go away».