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prisoner

A prisoner is a person imprisoned, while on trial or serving a sentence. The prisoners were let out of their cells each afternoon so they could exercise. Any person held against his or her will is a prisoner. He kept his mother as a prisoner in her bedroom until she agreed to change her will.

prisoner

a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

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The police is searching for an escaped prisoner.
Am I a prisoner?
The king ordered that the prisoner should be set free.
Everybody showed sympathy toward the prisoner.
The prisoner of war bore himself with great dignity.
The prisoner was behind bars for two months.
The prisoner was released.
The prisoner was set at liberty yesterday.
There is no denying that the prisoner is guilty.
Joe was believed to have shot the prisoner.
The judge concluded that the prisoner was innocent.
The prisoner denied that he had killed a policeman.
The prisoner was given his freedom.
The prisoner is in chains.
The police are pursuing an escaped prisoner.
The prisoner died under torture.
The prisoner was set at liberty.
The prisoner escaped from prison.
The prisoner who escaped is still at large.
They were taken prisoner.
A prisoner has escaped.
The prisoner asked to be released early.
The prisoner was set free yesterday.

Movie subtitles

How dare he do that to a prisoner in the government office!
Do you know where the prisoner was transported to?
The Niam-Niam had taken us prisoner and wanted to devour us.
It is absolutely impossible that the prisoner could have got out of his cell that night, and then come back to it.
It was Fandor who had taken the place of the prisoner, and inspectors Michel and Leon the place of policemen.
Mr. Attorney. For the convenience of the investigation of the Ribonard case and to avoid confrontation and also to protect the life of the prisoner extradited from Louvain, it is desirable he is not seen by anyone.
Maria was a prisoner in Rotwang's house.
Ivan wrote that he was a prisoner.
I was taken a prisoner to Kurgaal.
You know, I don't think it's gonna be so bad being kept prisoner here.
PRISONER: So long, Blackie.
PRISONER 2: So long, Blackie.
PRISONER 3: So long, Blackie.
PRISONER 4: So long, Blackie.
Despite this promise, France kept him prisoner - all these years. - I know, I know.
Abdelkader and I only wished to go to the Mecca, but the French didn't keep their word and kept him prisoner.
Turn the prisoner over to her, Lieutenant.
This man was overheard by a nurse in the hospital discussing this fact with the prisoner.
The prisoner who was removed from the Shanghai Express was my right hand - an important officer in my army.
The protection offered a prisoner, Your Excellency?
Tell your prisoner not to insult me.
To identify the prisoner formally. - Will you come to the police station?
And old Bligh's a prisoner.
If the prisoner so desires, he may question the witness.
When I arrived, the prisoner could've arrested Christian.
Prisoner and escort, halt.
Prisoner and escort, into file.
And the prisoner ate a hearty breakfast.
YOU MEAN, I'M TO BE KEPT A PRISONER IN THIS ROOM WITH THESE TWO FOOLS WHEN I REALLY OUGHT TO BE DOWNSTAIRS?
When I blow my whistle, this prisoner will sock a guard. - That's you.
Our king is being held prisoner.
Is it so strange that I decide to rule when my brother's a prisoner?
Take him prisoner!
I've just heard that Ashley was taken prisoner.
Ashley a prisoner? - Yes.
But you can't. You're going there as a prisoner.
I say, aren't you rather afraid that the prisoner, shall we say, might bolt?
We're flying the prisoner back.

News and current affairs

The reason for this reversal is obvious: if the US puts the Geneva Convention in doubt, American soldiers, if taken prisoner, could lose their protections.
Although he achieved important victories over the Ottomans, Corvinus took him prisoner, and he was killed in 1477 in renewed fighting with Ottoman troops.
Tripoli, which hosted the liberation ceremony; and Zintan, which is holding Qaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, prisoner.
That is, the Bush administration believed that they were al Qaeda members or others who did not fight by the rules of war and thus not entitled to prisoner-of-war status.
The Conventions require that, where there is any doubt, a hearing must be held before an impartial tribunal to determine whether a prisoner seized during an armed conflict is entitled to prisoner-of-war status.
He was a prisoner of both his genius and his insatiable need for the Argentine public's love.
Not one detainee has been accorded prisoner-of-war status; none has been granted a hearing as required by the Geneva Conventions in cases of doubt.
In the Kargopol museum, for example, stands a clay pitcher, presented to the museum by the descendants of a guard who appropriated a prisoner's parcel - a pitcher full of honey.
Halfway to the capital, the miners inflicted two humiliating defeats on police and security forces, injuring 30 soldiers and taking hundreds prisoner.
Militant Palestinians and Lebanese know that a captured Israeli soldier or civilian is either a cause of conflict or a valuable bargaining chip for prisoner exchange.
The federal court ruled that under the Geneva Conventions, Hamdan, as a prisoner of war, was entitled to a court hearing that followed the same procedures as one judging soldiers of the detaining power, that is, an American court martial.
A leader of Solidarity, a former political prisoner, and the foreign minister responsible for Poland's accession to NATO, Geremek had refused to sign yet another declaration that he had not been a communist secret police agent.
Assuming that Megrahi was guilty, and that he was released because he has only a short time to live, does a prisoner's terminal illness justify compassionate release?
The issue will turn on whether Ukraine's President, Viktor Yanukovych, fulfills one vital condition: a full pardon for political prisoner and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Unlike the first group, they would be ready to accept the release of one Palestinian prisoner - even if he were responsible for the most brutal terrorist attack - but not a thousand of them.
Confinement in a small box could not exceed two hours, but if the prisoner could stand in the box, it could continue up to eight hours at a time, 18 hours a day.
First, Obama did not openly criticize the Chinese government's notorious human rights record, nor did he use his influence to persuade China to release any prisoner of conscience, as his US predecessors always did when visiting the country.
But whether Putin is master of this system or its prisoner - a tsar or a doge - is something even he may not know.
For Hamas, on the other hand, the prisoner exchange embodied the core value of steadfastness.
China incarcerated me as a political prisoner for five years, until 2007.
There is no crisis in America's churches and synagogues, no Christian and Jewish leaders crying out for justice in the name of Jesus, a tortured political prisoner, or of Yahweh, who demands righteousness.
Clearly, whoever was responsible for the decision to take the British Marines prisoner was hoping to rekindle some of the fervor of the 1979 revolution, and use that to force the rest of the leadership into a confrontation with Britain and America.
Another is Mahmoud Dahlan, also an ex-prisoner and former security official, although the loss of Gaza to Hamas, for which many Palestinians hold him partly responsible, has dimmed his leadership prospects.
In short, South Korea has the resources to produce soft power, and its soft power is not prisoner to the geographical limitations that have constrained its hard power throughout its history.

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