Sentence examples for being hostage from inspiring English sources

Willis's pieces retain the mark of their time without being hostage to it.

As things stand, the trouble is that their output, being hostage to the weather, is highly variable.

This arrangement "ends the insanity of being hostage to the rating agencies", says a banker who worked on the deal.The two banks, which will each own 24.9% of Sallie, see numerous benefits.

Newman used an opinion piece in the Australian newspaper on Thursday to say the world was "ill prepared" for a period of global cooling, accusing governments of being hostage to "warming propaganda" from climate scientists.

He did not back off from his sharp criticisms of the Bush administration as being hostage to special interests, even in the face of continued sharp attacks from Dr. Dean.

"What we're trying to do is free ourselves from being hostage to federal policies by creating a whole bunch of solutions that cumulatively would have a big effect," Mr. Spano said.

Everything is hostage to it".

And that is hostage holding.

(They were hostage negotiations, with me as the hostage).

He added: "We are hostage to this irresponsibility".

Ambon is hostage to rumors and false reports.