Sentence examples for because of the kidnapping from inspiring English sources

Japan has frozen all food aid to North Korea, partly because of the kidnapping issue, partly because of North Korea's nuclear bomb program.

"Someone commented that they had seen them," said a member of the club as she passed the salon, asking that her name not be used because of the kidnapping threat for wealthy people in the public eye here.

The two countries have no diplomatic relations, and previous attempts to hold talks have floundered because of the kidnapping issue along with North Korea's persistent demands for $10 billion or more in compensation for Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.Yet Japanese officials have recently sensed a change in North Korea.

Sixty-five yeago ago, the spokesman for America First was another celebrity, Charles Lindbergh, who was famous for his historic solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, and because of the kidnapping and murder of his child, which was reported so exhaustively and sensationally by the press that it became known as "The Crime of the Century".

By then, working in northern Syria had become close to impossible because of the kidnap threat.

The region is risky for outsiders chiefly because of the local kidnapping industry—so that few journalists have ventured beyond military briefings.

Tensions were already high, because of the Hamas kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in Gaza, two weeks earlier, and Israel responded with bombing raids, including one, the next day, on Beirut's airport.

Crucially, like the artistic refugees from Franco's Spain who first inspired him, the writer-director considers himself an exile from his home country, Mexico, not least because of the 1997 kidnapping of his father, at the height of a vogue for such ransomed abductions.

The so-called historic compromise between Christian Democrats and Communists planned in 1978 foundered not only because of the dramatic kidnapping and subsequent murder by Red Brigades terrorists of the former Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro, but also because of long maintained Cold War vetoes by the United States against letting communists into government in Rome.

A hospital employee, who knew Ms. Allen through a family connection, also suspected her of the kidnapping, because Ms. Allen had told her earlier in the day that she would need a ride home for her and her newborn, Lt. Derek Glenn of the Newark Police Department said.

The case of the rabbi, Shlomo Helbrans, has drawn widespread attention not only for the nature of the kidnapping charge, but also because of a federal investigation into whether his parole after two years in prison was the result of improper political influence on the Pataki administration.