"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This is a clear case of hostage taking for financial gain.
- But we were already too late, for the hostages had taken over the fleet.
- "We keep the two of them covered from outside until the hostages come out and take their guns," Fish suggested.
- Earlier hostage taking by all parties greatly complicated the situation.
- Kanidis was killed on the third day of the hostage taking.
- The purpose of the training was to form a special group for responding to hostage taking incidents.
- "We cannot permit hostage taking to shape the foreign policy of this country," he declared.
- The hostages have taken over the key positions there.
- I should like to go one step further: it goes without saying that hostage taking as a method should simply be done away with.
- But the crisis strengthened Iranians who supported the hostage taking.
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