The taking of hostages

The hostages will be released.

Hunger drove the armies to take hostages for ransom.

Fortune cookie.

Their governments saw themselves as Qaddafi s hostages.

It's a fortune!

Reagan brought the US hostages back from Iran.

Dutch hostages were taken and threatened with execution.

But you will have passed up an opportunity to assist the hostages.

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Some reports said the drug naloxone was successfully used to save some hostages.

John inherited a large fortune.

Sami was losing his fortune.

NEW YORK Fortune has not been kind to Haiti.

States shall not invoke derogation clauses to justify taking hostages or to impose collective punishments.

This change of fortune is shocking.

Now we have the good fortune to open up space.

Sami wanted a son to inherit his name and fortune.

and whenever good fortune comes to him , he grows niggardly .

The hostages were released unharmed on October 11, 1944, near Rovaniemi.

International Convention against the Taking of Hostages accession 1 March 2004

He was accustomed to good fortune, for his huntsmen took precautions.

Metastasio inherited a fortune of 15,000 scudi.

3. Demands that all hostages be released immediately and without any preconditions

Convention against the Taking of Hostages (General Assembly resolution 34 146, annex).

The detention or seizure of persons as hostages with a view to influencing the public authorities in the performance of their work or influencing the relatives of the hostages with a view to obtaining any benefit or advantage of any kind

Reports were received of torture and killing of hostages, such as in the case of five hostages found dead and showing signs of torture in the municipality of Corinto (Cauca) in January.

On 14 July 2011 it was announced that the hostages had been freed.

He lost a fortune in the stock market.

They left their fortune behind, all their goods.

and tight fisted when good fortune visits him ,

This tragic reversal of fortune must not stand.

Good fortune and bad fortune alternate randomly, and the poorest people are particularly vulnerable when misfortune like a hurricane in a fishing village strikes.

An early sign was the failure of Operation Eagle Claw to rescue US hostages in Iran in 1980.

Next is by a Lithuanian fortune teller, Jurgi Petrauskas.

Politics is, of course, full of reversals of fortune.

At twenty, Cooper inherited a fortune from his father.

The first Fortune 500 list was published in 1955.

We shall ease the way of fortune for him .

We shall ease the way of fortune for him .

But, in a way, the Russian soldiers there are already hostages not least to the Kremlin s bankrupt foreign policy.

I am more invulnerable than Achilles fortune hath not one place to hit me.

But no regime has ever used its citizens so deliberately as tools to arouse world sympathy, as hostages to modern sensitivities.

He's like, Oh, I got it from a fortune cookie.

Sami built a small fortune with his popular seafood restaurant.