"Instead, they became captive workers, pushed every day beyond their physical limits, trapped by crushing debt they had no chance to pay back, facing constant threats of deportation when they asked for the most elementary improvements in conditions".
The domestic economy, however, was forced to make the adjustments to the trade imbalances.Monetary policy became captive to the amount of gold that a country possessed (principally derived from trade).
The 1997 crisis spiralled when it emerged that many private banks were in dreadful shape and that some monetary authorities had become captives of the private sector.
Some bangs wearers become captives of the look, sometimes long past the point where they appreciate the comparisons to Bettie Page or Jane Birkin.
Just as the Eagles prophesied in their ultimate 70's hit record "Hotel California," we've become captives to a state of suspended animation in which "you can check out any time you like but you can never leave".
Democrats said Republicans had become captives to a pledge never to raise taxes, foisting on Congress a draconian plan that "asks more from those who have less and less from those who have more," as Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, put it.
The dangers are that journalists become captives of their sources, and an especially big risk in times as chaotic as the past few years have been that those sources, even very senior ones, don't actually know what is going on themselves.
Sebastian Mallaby, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Mr. Bush and his trade representative, Robert B. Zoellick, had committed the classic mistake of free traders who thought they could "buy the allegiance of protectionists, whether they are big farmers or the steel industry, to make some advance in their long-term trade policy and not become captives of the protectionists".
It is just because so much adsorption oxygen exists on the SnO2 surface that they become captives of photo-generated electron hole pairs directly or indirectly.
Interminable winters that can boast deadly temperatures of -40 C force people indoors where they become captives of climate.
