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Captured

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Past of capture

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The Times reported that he said: "You have tanks and armour rolling across the Ukrainian border, and you have an Estonian border guard being captured and not yet still returned.

You force money transfers underground where they are more likely to be captured by terrorists.

This diverts resources to landfill and gives rise to greenhouse gas emissions, because the rotting food produces methane that is not captured and adds to the concentration of carbon in the air.

Monckton's men ended up in a heavily forested region now known as the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick where, following a two-week siege, they captured an area previously controlled by French Acadian settlers.

The country boosted security on its 500-mile border with Iraq in July, deploying thousands of troops to back up border guards after the jihadis captured Mosul, seized swaths of territory including Anbar province, and announced a caliphate straddling the border with Syria.

Jack Lieb captured the invasion on silent film for News of the Day and later narrated over the film for the archives.

Anti-hunt campaigners say the market for captured dolphins in China is growing rapidly.

Russian media reported earlier in the week that Liashko had been captured by rebels, but he later emerged unscathed, announcing his security by posting a photograph of himself, his mother and a large white cat on his blog.

But the governance debate has only captured half of the story.

Given his views, was it not astonishing that he should have been given the job by a government described in Nicholas Shaxson's bombshell book Treasure Islands as now being "utterly captured by the financial services industry"?

Worse still, an unapologetic socialist - the mysterious Victor Grayson - captured the nonconformist stronghold of Colne Valley.

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