Sentence examples for captive from inspiring English sources

She added: "Government cannot continue to be the captive of the rich and powerful.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.03pm BST12 03 Mel Stride, a Conservative, asks about the 270 Nigerian schoolgirls held captive.

This is why the announcement earlier this month that ZSL's London Zoo had succeeded in rearing the first ever captive Lake Oku clawed frog tadpoles and juveniles is so important.

Backup colonies, insurance populations, or captive breeding troupes – whatever your preferred term – have increasingly become the norm in amphibian conservation.

American journalist Theo Padnos, who was taken captive in Syria and held for almost two years, has told of his ordeal in a lengthy and graphic New York Times magazine article.

Related: White House admits: we didn't know who drone strike was aiming to kill The deaths of Dr Warren Weinstein, a US government aid worker, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian aid worker, who were being held captive in the Afghanistan and Pakistan border region, have placed unprecedented pressure on Barack Obama's secret program of targeted drone killings.

In her new novel, Frog Music, Emma Donoghue, author of Room, about a mother and son held captive, "has stuck with a claustrophobic setting", according to Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard.

We already knew Django Unchained would be about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a German bounty hunter (Waltz) to take down the owner of the plantation where he was previously held captive, and where his wife, Broomhilda, is still imprisoned.

She had recently also had an entanglement with another West Indian, Lucky Gordon, but was on the run from him after he had briefly held her captive.

On hearing that the captive frogs had finally bred, Doherty-Bone said he felt "very, very relieved...the effort was not for nothing".

Foxx's odyssey from captive slave to mythical avenger, enabled by Waltz's liberal German "dentist", is often an exhilarating ride, though the action is constantly slowed up by Tarantino's love of his own dialogue – if only he'd kept that chained in.