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Meaning hostage meaning
What does hostage mean?
Definitions in simple English
hostage
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Synonyms hostage synonyms
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Examples hostage examples
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Simple sentences
Tom took a group of schoolchildren hostage.
Tom was held hostage.
I thought Tom and Mary were going to use me as a hostage.
Russia expresses regret for those lost in the hostage incident.
I'm being held hostage.
Tom is my hostage.
Tom was taken hostage.
Tom has been taken hostage.
Are you being held hostage?
I was held hostage.
Tom was held hostage for a whole month.
Movie subtitles
Yeah, and he's here, hostage for their good behavior.
For all your threats of swarms of hornets and so on, you're a hostage.
He's the prize hostage.
We have Spotted Horse's brother at Fort Keaney as a hostage for the good behavior of the Ogalalla.
He was hostage for the Oberst.
No! But I'm afraid we'll take you as hostage for the boy.
I'm the hostage.
I used to sing a ballad concerning the fate of the fair Zuleika. daughter of the sultan. who was taken hostage on the Crusades.
She was assigned to me as a hostage.
You're forgetting you're a hostage of Rome, aren't you?
Here, you, hostage, come back here.
I take it this hostage is female?
Can one purchase a hostage?
For the hostage, Lygia.
Well, it seems I have been fortunate to find a hostage important enough to ensure the return of my officer.
Theyre holding Captain Harvey as hostage.
Meanwhile, mademoiselle remains with me as hostage.
We accept His Highness' suggestion only on the condition that we hold you hostage pending Major Vickers' safe return.
Any of us would willingly act as hostage. to assure Your Grace of Capt. Thorpe's appearance.
Who shall be held hostage until the killer. is delivered to the authority.
Tell my brother that if this man is taken hostage it will make it easier for the Cheyenne to make a good peace.
They only wanted the senator as a hostage.
The white man is a hostage.
But yesterday the Germans came and took him away as a hostage. They took 25 of the hundred men from our village.
Well, he bluffed me into believing that he was holding a friend of mine as hostage.
But I'm afraid we'll take you as hostage for the boy.
It's like they're holding us hostage.
Hold her hostage and Lavalle.
How, then, if I say he came delivering himself as a hostage for his father and we took him without violence?
He's taken the girl as hostage. to be raised in the ballet. that she has shows a natural ability for.
This man is our hostage.
Gisele d'Angouleme is his hostage and she'd be killed on the spot.
He'll probably use her as a hostage, against us.
She's an hostage.
We'll hold her hostage and send our associates to have a talk with Lord Ieyasu.
For one, they want Lady Yodo to be sent to the East as hostage.
Ganor is holding him as a hostage in the palace so the people won't revolt against him.
Take him hostage!
I need you as a hostage.
No, just my hostage.
News and current affairs
Teamwork has repeatedly fallen hostage to turf wars and political bickering.
Remain closed, and they will find themselves hostage to the forces of intolerance that threaten the regime.
In 1864, the Emperor of Abyssinia took hostage the British consul, together with some missionaries, in the country's then-capital, Magdala.
As long as capital flows remain large relative to the liquid assets held by national governments and are easily reversible, the international economy will be hostage to spectacular boom and bust cycles.
Relations between the United States and Iran have been officially non-existent since a group of radical students stormed the US embassy in Teheran - 25 years ago this week - taking sixty six Americans hostage for 444 days.
Nasrallah's power base is now a hostage of Hezbollah's good behavior.
Such a situation can make the central bank hostage to the government's behavior.
But the Chechen resistance is never crushed as was proved, not only by the taking hostage of over 800 Muscovites last week, but by the numerous successful Chechen raids on Russian troops in and around Chechnya.
Unfortunately, this ship seems hostage to a confused sense of mission and a distinct lack of urgency.
That choice, of course, is not Slovenia's alone and is, anyway, now hostage to other concerns.
Five years ago, Tsarukyan himself led his thugs in a break-in at our office, taking my staff hostage for several hours.
Indeed, after the hostage crisis in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow in 2002, the same sort of harsh words flowed, but no extra money was spent.
But we do know that at least 30 men armed with AK47 rifles and grenades held India's business and financial center hostage, targeting both Indians and foreigners, particularly Americans and British.
Americans have been suspicious of Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis, in which Iranian students held 52 Americans at the US embassy for 444 days.
A dozen international conventions and numerous UN resolutions commit governments to oppose hostage taking, the hijacking of civilian aircraft, and terrorism more broadly.
This means that, though international coordination will be an important factor in the long-term success of action to mitigate climate change, its complications need not - and should not - hold progress hostage.
TOKYO - Diplomatic relationships in East Asia have long been held hostage by history.
Rafsanjani was at least partly hostage to hardline opponents keen to sabotage his foreign-policy initiatives with precisely timed acts of terror in France, Germany, and Argentina.
But no matter, Greece was already in - and willing and able to take its fellow EU members hostage.
While inside, they seized documents and set others alight, and took six embassy employees hostage.
So it would appear that it was the Iranians who blinked first, before the incident could spiral into a genuine 1979-style hostage crisis.
Development strategy, indeed, is becoming hostage to the idea of integration into the world economy.
Even for a Japanese public that still generally supports their country's post-war pacifism, the hostage crisis was unsettling, not least because it highlighted Japan's military impotence.