A Generation Held Hostage?

The mere threat could have held the Syrian government hostage.

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.

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

Hostage taking

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our interests are in fact hostage to our ideas.

Every soul is hostage to what it has earned .

Each one is a hostage to one 's deeds ,

Every soul is hostage to what it has earned ,

Abduction and hostage taking are prohibited in all circumstances.

As the Party uses nationalist sentiment to keep China unified, these sentiments have become fiercer, and the political leadership is increasingly held hostage to nationalist opinion in formulating China s foreign policy towards Japan.

The ruling brings cheers not only to the LGBT community, but also to anyone who believes that liberty and equality before law cannot be held hostage to irrational beliefs and values in perpetuity.