Sentence examples for captive on from inspiring English sources

China's Wildlife Protection Law covers animals living in the wild, not ones held captive on breeding farms.

But he also led his militants in a guerrilla war that pushed much of the army out of South Waziristan, at one time capturing more than 200 soldiers captive on a single day, holding them hostage for several months.

The men, all Muslims, kneeled in unison at evening prayers in the Khadeeja mosque, their incantations laced with anxiety over the fate of one of their spiritual brothers, a marine held captive on the other side of the world.

Another is her latest sleeping arrangements: Kara (played by Katee Sackhoff) has a husband and a lover (two, if one counts the amorous Cylon who held her captive on the robot-occupied settlement New Caprica).

Those taken captive on Wednesday night represented a broad cross section of a new Russia.

The handcuffs that you are wearing in that disturbing photograph of you held captive on your front porch?

A captive depicted on one of his monuments is identified as being from the distant city of Calakmul, one of the two Maya "superpowers".

MANILA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Al-Qaeda linked Islamist militants in the Philippines said on Thursday they will kill one of two German captives on Oct. 17 unless their demands are met.

Britain released navigational evidence indicating that they were taken in Iraqi territorial waters; Iran showed its captives on state television and said it would release the one woman it held.

He gathered the captives on the bridge of the ship.

Today, the rebels announced they would release 21 other captives on Monday.