"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Meanwhile, he would have the parents as further hostages, should the necessity arise.
- Saddam Hussein has promised to release a further 30 hostages in the near future.
- On 4 August, Preusker declared repressions towards the city inhabitants, arrest of 6 civilians as hostages, 50,000 rubles of contribution, the police-hour, ban on publishing newspapers, and threat of taking further hostages and executions.
- The Iranians would commit to seeing that there were no further hostages seized.
- When her lawyer asked if she knew anyone in the government who might help, she gave further hostages to fortune.
- The British Government considers that paying ransoms for the release hostages increases the risk of further hostage taking.
- Jailing convicted terrorists only incites co-conspirators to take further hostages to bargain for a jailed terrorist's release.
- The British government considers that paying ransoms and releasing prisoners increase the risk of further hostage taking.
- They offered peace to the Northumbrians in exchange for their support for Harald's bid for the throne, and demanded further hostages from the whole of Yorkshire.
- They offered concessions in order to distract him and prevent him killing further hostages, buying time for the SAS to make its final preparations for the now-inevitable assault.
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