The parallel structures should immediately be dismantled in order not to keep that minority a hostage of the past.

Thus, a former captive nation is now being invited to celebrate its captivity.

Necessary policy reforms advocated by a ruling party are often held hostage to the prejudices of its allies.

Countries with large current account deficits (such as Turkey) will remain hostage to skittish market sentiment.

Unfortunately, this ship seems hostage to a confused sense of mission and a distinct lack of urgency.

It is as if France were now seized by a kind of nostalgic generosity toward a presidency that had been marked by suspicion and derision.

But we cannot allow the distortion of faith or long standing custom to be used as an excuse to ignore the rights of girls and women, and to hold their communities in poverty.

This point is used to bolster a third argument large institutions have undue political influence and thus capture their regulators.

Individual chimpanzees are much stronger than human beings, but as a species, we can, and do, hold them captive, and essentially helpless, in zoos and laboratories.

Ballot initiatives were created 100 years ago to empower ordinary citizens, but in recent decades the process has been captured by self serving elites.

Furthermore, Netanyahu s unsentimental assessment of the Middle East does not line up with that of the Obama administration in thrall to its collapsing romance with moderate Islamists and its devoted supporters among Jewish Americans.

It is not financially nimble it is often captured by the regulated and when economic times are good, no official wants to spoil the party.

Global leadership today seems to be held hostage by financial interests and associated media, ideologists, and oligarchs whose political influence enables them to secure more rents and pay lower taxes in what must truly be the most vicious of circles.

A major challenge for the twenty first century remains the peaceful settlement of disputes and the urgent establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission in order to break the vicious cycle of which States barely emerging from conflict often remain prisoners.

This episode serves as a reminder that central banks are political institutions, with a political agenda, and that independent central banks tend to be captured (at least cognitively ) by the banks that they are supposed to regulate.

Witness the current debate about whether governments in advanced economies have been captured by financial interests a question that Gillian Tett poses in a recent review article in Foreign Affairs.

The pursuit of this mission impossible would inevitably plunge Member States into a morass of bitter debate for an unpredictable period of time, taking other critical reforms hostage, including those that affect development, human rights, management of the Secretariat and collective international security.

The emerging new approach to PDPs is also fearful of state failure. State agencies can be captured and aid can be used for private or political gain.

Some in the Bush administration accept this argument, saying that they are happy to see Latin American democracies seeking influence where the United States cannot. Latin America, it seems, is no longer held hostage by its demagogues and guerrillas.

Argentina s per capita income has risen, albeit slowly, during this period, but the country was never far from a full blown macroeconomic crisis that could reduce household incomes sharply. So it seems fair to conclude that both countries are still caught in the middle income trap.