Sentence examples for became hostage from inspiring English sources

Then the whole town became hostage.

The unintended consequence was that he himself became hostage to their fate.

The coalition Liberals, meanwhile, lacked an ideological base and increasingly became hostage to their dominant Unionist partners.

As he tightened his grip, the whole nation became "hostage to the psychosomatic quirks of its leader," as the novelist Vladimir Sorokin wrote.

Plamen Oresharski, the prime minister, accused him of a "grossly interfering with the executive branch with a series of unbalanced and biased actions" Kristian Vigenin, the foreign minister, said that "the state became hostage to the personal ambition and ego of one politician".Mr Plevneliev's presidency started quietly in 2011.

In the postcolonial annals, near-exclusive dependence on a single commodity — copper in Cold War-era Zambia and Zaire, as Congo was then known, or uranium in Niger — entrenched one-party states even as African economies became hostage to the vagaries of remote, international markets.

The villagers basically became hostages.

"But [later] we became hostages ourselves of this hostage-taking".

The Dutch troops themselves, starved for food, fuel and ammunition, became hostages.

'Our main task is, of course, to save the life and health of those who became hostages.

That dependence has become painfully clear in recent weeks, as the banks became hostages in a dispute between central bankers and political leaders.