Sentence examples for business of kidnapping from inspiring English sources

It's the queasily horrifying story of the notorious Puccio crime family in post-junta 1980s Argentina who maintained the grisly totalitarian craft of "disappearing" people, effectively repurposing it into the lucrative business of kidnapping.

Except that in the Philippines, the enemy is a band of guerrillas known as Abu Sayyaf, whose avowed goal of carving out an Islamic state in this Roman Catholic country has given way to the less demanding, more lucrative, business of kidnapping Western tourists, including Americans.

The Chechen economy is in tatters, but it gets an inflow of cash from the grisly business of kidnapping.

But in Britain, the business of kidnapping is less glamorous and more democratic.

Originally numbering only 200 or so fighters, it has focused more on the business of kidnapping than on ideological warfare.

"Proof of Life," which was inspired by William Prochnau's Vanity Fair article "Adventures in the Ransom Trade" and the book "Long March to Freedom" by Thomas Hargrove, is much better dealing with the business of kidnapping than with the attendant emotions.

They argued the information could harm a company's commercial operations and potentially leave private business people and their families at risk of kidnapping.

Following a local tradition of kidnapping for ransom, reinforcing their demands by beheading some of their hostages, they have built up a lucrative business.

Many politicians dream of kidnapping their enemies.

Return to The Business of Kidnapping.

The Soviets repeated the accusations of kidnapping.