A Generation Held Hostage?

The mere threat could have held the Syrian government hostage.

However, the commencement of the process is still being held hostage by the demand of the Forces nouvelles that the question of identification should first be adequately resolved.

Ultimately, though, without US China cooperation, a global climate agreement will be held hostage.

At that time his wife, still held in Tver as a hostage, died unexpectedly.

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

Our people have been held hostage, condemned to live in makeshift camps, under traumatic physical and psychological conditions.

Progress in both disarmament and non proliferation is essential and neither should be held hostage to the other.

We have also attempted to restore independence and integrity to our institutions, held hostage by private and partisan interests.

The murder of 11 provincial legislators held hostage by Colombia s FARC guerrillas is a reminder of that country s eternal agony.

Why cannot the FMCT negotiations get started? There is a perception that there is stalemate because of FMCT being held hostage to the linkage of different items such as the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

Our livelihoods, not to mention those of future generations, should not be held hostage by our ongoing addiction to fossil fuels.

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Hostage taking

Many countries and companies are forging ahead, signaling a determination not to be held hostage by the slowest at the official negotiating table.

But since the Conference on Disarmament's programme of work has been held hostage for almost nine years, those mandates cannot be carried out.

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For 15 years, Turkmenistan was held hostage to the personality cult of former leader Saparmurat Niyazov, who styled himself Turkmenbashi ( father of the Turkmen ).

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The Bali meeting s participants should bear this in mind global warming is too important to be held hostage to another attempt at squeezing the poor.

According to the stated purpose of the investigators, she is also being held as a hostage pending the return to Russian territory of her superior, the Head of the Legal Department of Yukos Oil Company, Dmitry Gololobov, whose flight to London allegedly enraged investigators.

Likewise, the ECB should have barred banks from the risky CDS market, where they are held hostage to ratings agencies decisions about what constitutes a credit event.

Measures to strengthen the non proliferation regime which benefit all States must not be held hostage to movement on other NPT issues, important as they may be.

The art exhibition is now being held in Kyoto.

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Principles do matter. The Bali meeting s participants should bear this in mind global warming is too important to be held hostage to another attempt at squeezing the poor.

In slum areas like Cité Soleil and very poor urban areas for example, around Gonaïves children are held hostage under the brutal and criminal rule of local gangs.

The police officer in question was being held and the incident was being investigated by authorities.

At the same time, France has mounted a commando operation to try to save a French hostage held by al Shabaab militants in Somalia, also allied with al Qaeda.

Tens of thousands had already voted with their feet and now lived in refugee camps, in the unforgiving Sahara desert, while their future was held hostage by foreign Powers.

Over 600 of those imprisoned were being held without trial.

The hostage was killed by the militants.

During long months, the country has lived in a situation bordering on chaos, in which armed bands have held many of the capital's neighbourhoods hostage and committed the worst atrocities.

There were some twenty million displaced and refugee children, while others were held hostage, had been abducted, sexually abused or exploited or have fallen victim to traffickers in human beings.

After being postponed several times, these were held in February 2006.

But we do know that at least 30 men armed with AK47 rifles and grenades held India s business and financial center hostage, targeting both Indians and foreigners, particularly Americans and British.

They were holding something like 700 people hostage.

Many of those taken hostage suffered terrible deaths.

Hostage taking continues to affect the civilian population.

In 2010, an entire parliamentary session was lost when the BJP held it hostage to the party s demand that government establish an investigative committee to inquire into an alleged act of corruption.

German prisoners were still being held in Russia as late as 1924.