"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "It's led me to believe it was put together more as a con operation than as a serious attempt to deal with the hostage problem."
- Third, the President welcomed an elusive statement by President Rafsanjani of Iran that the hostage problem was "solvable."
- But aside from the hostage problem, large spills of nerve and mustard gases could be neutralized by applications of caustic soda, sodium hydroxide, he said.
- "In the meantime, I'm sure you'd like to know about the hostage problem."
- Concern over Japan's hostage problem heightened with the disappearance of about 20 Japanese citizens from a Baghdad hotel over the weekend.
- Mr. Picco was dispatched to Beirut last month when hopes were raised for a final resolution of the hostage problem with the release of two Western captives.
- Fighting in Beirut The hostage problem is being played out here at a time of large-scale fighting between Lebanon's warring factions.
- The emergence yesterday of a potential hostage problem of vast dimensions only emphasised that this is far too complex a crisis for gunboat diplomacy.
- They came shortly after a high-ranking Iranian official and a Shiite Muslim leader predicted a breakthrough in the hostage problem.
- Thus, Syria's interests in Lebanon's hostage problem are far more subtle and vital to Mr. Assad's survival as a regional power.
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