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As for Dr. Schinnar, he said he was "stunned by Robin's looks," but fell captive to her creative mind.

Meanwhile, the state electricity monopoly fell captive to its union and suppliers, and lost $383m last year despite charging three times the price of electricity on the American mainland.

Kagan contends that the American military successfully transformed itself after the humiliation of Vietnam with the all-volunteer Army and upgradings of personnel and weapons, but then fell captive to dreams of dominance through technology alone, losing sight of the human component of warfare.

But some fell captive to the militants, the Yazidis say.

Captain Paul V. S. Liles of the KMAG also fell captive to the Chinese.

They want to keep the movement's energy alive through the next presidential election -- but not fall captive to it.

Politicians say they want "tax reform," but can you trust them to do this in a responsible manner, without falling captive to particular special interests or to otherwise undermine the general social interest?

There are indications that it was named for the Carthaginian general, who chose to poison himself rather than fall captive to the Romans, but I.D.F. officials insist that a computer generated the name at random.

One of the special tasks of the orders of knighthood was the liberation of Christian slaves who had fallen captive to the Muslims; and special knightly orders were even founded for the ransom of Christian slaves.

He and his American colleague are immediately at drawn swords, the mission goes badly awry, and they fall captive to Colonel Radl who promises to ex ecute them promptly.

In 2004, Gore cheered liberals when he lashed at President Bush for allegedly falling captive to right-wing special interests and taking flight from "fact-based analysis". If the book strikes a chord, it will produce new momentum for Gore to make another bid for the White House, presumably fueled in large part by anti-Iraq-war Democrats.

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