Sentence examples for acts of kidnapping from inspiring English sources

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Human rights organisations providing assistance to North Koreans wishing to defect were similarly accused of "receiving assistance funds from the puppet authorities and habitually engaging in acts of kidnapping".

The ending of more overt violence as the slave frontier moved on left the weak women, children, and the poor vulnerable to innumerable personal acts of kidnapping and betrayal, a process exacerbated by the indebtedness of local traders to coastal merchants and the dependence of the traders on the transatlantic economy.

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"I was really struck by this idea that a person could be free and their status could change just like that through this act of kidnapping.

He attempted to justify his statements by pointing out that he rejected the slave trade and the act of kidnapping someone into slavery, but this did not mitigate the damage, and he was heavily criticized for it in the Massachusetts press.

On the other hand, if the security forces can't seem to stop killing each other, who's to say they can stop criminal gangs committing wanton acts of kidnap?

"Instead, as today's charges show, he acted with others to support terrorists to further acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming".

For now, Pakistan's leaders need to acknowledge that, in the strategic struggle with India, Pakistan nurtured the formation of terrorist cells that are capable of acts like kidnapping Mr. Pearl.

What is effectively an act of kidnapping also regrettably demonstrates that there is as yet no rule of law in Libya domestically.

One can at least take solace in the fact that not a single act of kidnapping has ever turned bloody, as in Iraq.

I found a section on shocking revenge acts – like kidnapping the son of a mafioso, keeping him hostage in a cellar for two years, then strangling him.

Many politicians dream of kidnapping their enemies.

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