Sentence examples for act of abduction from inspiring English sources

At that time, children could be adopted from such institutions to become apprentices, and Bicknell and Day put the unknowing Edgeworth forth as a potential employer, performing a dual act of abduction.

The Taiwan government, for its part, blasted Beijing for orchestrating an "uncivilised act of abduction" that is illegal under international law.

Snapping barely sentient children uncomfortably brings to mind acts of abduction and enslavement, or the villainous impresario Stromboli, who forces Pinocchio to be a money-making puppet when all he wants is to be an innocent boy.

The government said its forces had entered because citizens were "fed up with the acts of killing, abduction, sabotage and blocking of roads committed by the terrorists," its term for its armed opponents.

The number of abductions like Steven Sotloff's is startling.

It's the final act of Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" and a tenor channeling 1960s-era Wisliam Shatner is belting out a florid aria as he battles a pack of gnarled Klingons.

However, exposure to violence, including being forced to commit acts of violence increase with length of abduction and were found to be significantly associated with those symptoms.

(6) ISIL has targeted innocent women and girls with horrific acts of violence, including abduction, enslavement, torture, rape, and forced marriage.

But tattoos still retained their hints of shame: carnival acts included fully tattooed men and women who told tales of abduction with forcible submission to the riveting needles.

Dave's abduction is an act of inexplicable, almost metaphysical evil, and this story of guilt, grief and vengeance grows out of it like a mass of dark weeds.

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan accepted the UK offer of help in a phone call with David Cameron, shortly after the prime minister told the House of Commons that the mass abduction was "an act of pure evil".