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Tom holds several people captive.
Tom is still being held captive.
Her tears and her prayers echoed through the dark void that surrounded the tormented captive soul.
In living through these uncertain times, it is necessary to be flexible and not be a captive to traditional values.
He fell captive to her charms.
Movie subtitles
I am your captive, but I shall never be your wife!
He was a king and a god in the world he knew but now he comes to civilization merely a captive a show to gratify your curiosity.
Who will bid more for the Christian captive?
Sire, the Holy Man Queen of England captive.
England's Queen is captive behind that wall.
She's captive here.
I am your captive.
Love is not a ring of gold to hold you captive to it.
If he were here, as you are, my captive then I would spare him.
She is my captive.
Within an hour, the Wizard will be the captive of my bow and spear, not to mention the toughest troops between here and New Zealand.
Go down upon him, you have power enough, and in a captive chariot into Rouen bring him our prisoner.
What would you say if he were within these walls, held captive with the rest of you?
Prince John holds your daughter captive in the royal castle at Wallingford.
And if a man shall molest a woman captive against her will. he, too, shall receive the same punishment.
Yes, captive in some native juju hut.
Who's holding you captive?
It's Nimrod the hunter, led captive by Aphrodite.
Staggering to the imagination and ravishing the sensibilities with tales of wealth, of gold and silver beyond dreams of avarice of stolen treasure, of maidens captive, of villages destroyed of cities decimated for a whim or a caress.
Well, she must be a captive here somewhere.
Consuelo wouldn't be held captive in the palace. and we'd have guns to stop Gruda's men from crushing us.
All I understand is that you've taken my friends captive.
You're a captive.
Said it belonged to a captive child of Chief Scar.
A captive. Should be about 14 now.
Go down upon him, you have power enough, and in captive chariot into Rouen bring him our prisoner.
Well, perhaps as a captive, but the chances are very slim.
He's a captive who has confessed.
A young buck fetched it in late last summer. Said it belonged to a captive child of Chief Scar.
We're looking for a girl. A white girl. A captive.
You're captive.
You sure you didn't act this role out in front of a captive audience whom you blasted out of existence without mercy?
Whoever you are, You are a captive.
There is no theory, captain, from the basic work of Mendel to the most recent nucleotide studies, which would explain our captive.
It was madness to interfere with such a worthwhile endeavour, but if you will, upon completion, please take me and my traitorous captive to Cheron.
CAPTIVE ALIENS ARE DISPERSED.
What do you want? I'm your fellow captive, Filer.
News and current affairs
Thus, a former captive nation is now being invited to celebrate its captivity.
But the impact has been limited, owing to the authorities' ability to stuff debt down the throats of captive local banks, insurance companies, and pension funds.
No one knows exactly why the naval wing of the IRGC took the 15 British Marines captive at the end of March.
It is important to remember: those who were responsible for taking the British Marines captive wanted an escalation of the confrontation, both to improve their domestic standing, and to punch back for sanctions that were beginning to bite.
By contrast, for more than a decade several European governments have been willing to pay terrorists millions of euros for the release of their captive citizens, or have facilitated the payment of ransoms by relatives and friends of hostages.
Applying it can seem justifiable if we put ourselves in the position of a captive, or imagine that our child, parent, or spouse has been captured by terrorists who make a credible offer to release our loved one for a ransom.
Berlusconi himself seems captive to his only remaining partner: the Northern League, which is at its popular zenith (though its charismatic leader, Umberto Bossi, is seriously ill).
No union can still pretend that it has captive employers who can and will pass wage increases on into prices without reckoning the consequences for profitability and employment.
In this view, labor views business as mostly captive, markets as segmented, and the unemployed as generously supported by the State.
America's president is captive to the country's labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.
In India, financial repression is used as a means to marshal captive savings to help finance massive government debts at far lower interest rates than would prevail in a liberalized market.
In October, tens of thousands of villagers protesting inadequate resettlement compensation held a local official captive for several hours before ten thousand People's Armed Police officers rescued him.
Did the whale, an orca named Tilikum and nicknamed Tilly, act out of stress at being held captive in a sterile concrete tank?
But if we are pointing the finger at Sea World for what it does to its captive animals, we should also look more broadly at the way we confine performing animals.
Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement.
If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.
And, rather than surging forward, the US economy, regrettably and exasperatingly, will remain captive to unusual sluggishness, while its vulnerability to the ill winds blowing from the rest of the world will only increase.
Though considered the most prized captive of the ancien regime, the Council has made little progress in prosecuting him.
The girls have now been held captive for over five months.
Unlike in the bygone era of superpowers and captive nations, American influence can no longer be defined by the ability to install and depose leaders from the US embassy.
Indeed, it was thanks to the euro - and the captive European market that goes with it - that Germany today is the world's second-leading exporter (China surpassed it in 2009).
And it announced its intention to slow local governments' seizures of farmland and excessive borrowing through captive enterprises.