"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Another flaw in planning was the apparent failure to anticipate fully that desperate pro-Noriega Panamanians might take Americans hostages.
- The United States severed relations with Iran after students seized the American Embassy in November 1979, taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
- His group was also involved in holding Americans hostage in Lebanon during the 1980's.
- Only the Communists could have kept any Americans hostage.
- NOV. 4, 1979 - Islamic students storm U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
- Three candidates representing the Students Following the Line of the Imam, the group responsible for holding the Americans hostage for 444 days, were also banned.
- And while we wait, he continues to hold hundreds of Americans hostage.
- And for spite, the group was holding Americans hostages and sometimes beheaded its captives.
- The hijackers held 39 Americans hostage in Beirut for 17 days and killed one.
- The idealistic young Iranians who seized the American Embassy that month and held 52 Americans hostage for more than a year, however, wanted a total Islamic revolution.
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