Sentence examples for as captives through from inspiring English sources

On April 9, terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants (240 men, women, and children) and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.

The Asheville passengers were viewed in this equation as captives.

He promptly secured the surrender of the pro-Confederate militia units just outside the city, but created a riot in the streets of St . Louiswhen he marched his captives through the city as a lesson to recalcitrant Southern sympathizers.

A — They are known as captive candidates.

Then came another shock: wild vertebrates, as well as captive ones, are capable of virgin births.

Another 29% were declared as "captive-bred" and 15% as "wild-caught".

Recent studies that used molecular approaches showed that captive and wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), as well as captive bonobos (Pan paniscus), harbor parasites broadly related to P. falciparum (2 – 5 ); wild and captive gorillas and captive bonobos and chimpanzees are sometimes infected with P. falciparum itself (4 – 6 ).

We heard the conversation from the room in which we were being held captive, through a half-closed door.

American soldiers were court-martialled for waterboarding captives as recently as the Vietnam War.

He was a "former" gay man who had been through Setting Captives Free, as well as a 150-day mentorship program.

They are as ruthless with captives as they are with captors.