Sentence examples for be held prisoner from inspiring English sources

"There's so many men and some women who served and sacrificed and happened to be held prisoner," McCain said on MSNBC.

"His reward by this government," she told reporters today on the steps of her Belgravia home, "was to be held prisoner for 16 months".

TONY BAER, New York, posted on nytimes.com When discussing Westerners' travels into places that may be dangerous, implying that they should "know better," or expect to be held prisoner, raped or beaten, strikes me as a form of violence itself.

The Washington Post goes so far as to call the practice "torture" (not "enhanced interrogation"?), and argues that there's "no reason passengers should be held prisoner on grounded planes".

The Bush administration has argued that Americans accused of fighting on the side of Al Qaeda have in effect surrendered their constitutional rights, and that hostile combatants can be held prisoner indefinitely.

Shadowy lighting by Mark Litvin and a haunting score by the Polish composer Jan Radzynski conjure a tense, eerie landscape whose inhabitants seem to be held prisoner by the rigid choreography.

Now 40, he was being held prisoner in the local prison.

She seems to have been held prisoner.

They denied that the Tamil civilians were being held prisoner.

"It's almost like being held prisoner somewhere.

We're being held prisoner!" cried an Iowa delegate.