"hostage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Iran and the United States severed ties after students seized the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held its diplomats hostage for 444 days.
- It has held even diplomats hostage.
- There is irony here, since nearly 20 years ago it was Iran that held 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
- America's relations with Iran have been icy since radical students seized Washington's Teheran Embassy in 1979 and held diplomats hostage there for 444 days.
- Iran and the United States severed ties after the 1979 Islamic revolution, after students attacked the American Embassy and took its diplomats hostage.
- It has plundered Kuwait, terrorized innocent civilians, and held even diplomats hostage.
- I remember your President sitting for four hundred or more days while Iranians held American diplomats hostage in Tehran.
- Washington broke diplomatic relations with Iran in 1980, months after militants in the new Islamic republic had taken dozens of American diplomats hostage.
- It violated international law when it seized the American Embassy in 1979 and held diplomats hostage.
- They took more than 200 office workers and several foreign diplomats hostage.
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