Sentence examples for captive without from inspiring English sources

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(Like an ISIS captive without a hood, I thought).

Among the five hundred or more attendees were the wife and children of Shaker Aamer, a man held captive without charge in Guantánamo for eight years.

It argued that Hamas was shooting rockets at Israel, that it was holding an Israeli soldier captive without Red Cross visits and that it pursued a policy of seeking Israel's destruction.

They lured soldiers outside for a council, and took the 20-man garrison captive without bloodshed.

He stressed the "unusual" phone call, and questioned whether the kidnappers would release their captive without first collecting a ransom.

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A Union prisoner testified that hundreds of his fellow captives went "without even a pair of drawers to cover their nakedness".

And then there are the many acts of omission, such as when soldiers could have killed captives without negative repercussions but decided not to.

The Iraqi Army, as we know from the stories of Private Jessica Lynch and others, seems to have treated its American captives without undue cruelty.

Several hours before the release, Nicolas Rodriguez, a rebel commander, said his fighters had seized the group as a "preventive measure" and would release the captives without ransom payments after checking their identities.

But the operation by undercover Colombian commandos — who tricked the rebels into handing over the captives without a shot — offered further evidence that the guerrilla group is in disarray.

This action of his so amazed the king that he again released the Roman captives without price and sent envoys once more in regard to peace.

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