Sentence examples for captive working from inspiring English sources

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Most of them were not even captured by US military personnel but were, rather, delivered by bounty hunters paid per captive, working for such upstanding organizations as those headed by one or another of the warlords making up the Northern Alliance, some of whom were even Taliban when it suited them.

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"People say you have a captive work force," he said.

Industry experts say they can be attractive to employers because they are essentially a captive work force.

A captive work force: forty-four men, laborers from Thailand who were lured to Hawaii in 2004 with promises of good wages, housing and food.

The highest responder-rates in non-patient groups were in Lithuania (54.2%), a door-to-door survey conducted by trained interviewers which, probably, provided more incentive to answer than the self-administration demanded elsewhere, and in the relatively captive work-force population of Spain-workplace (58.8%).

Working with wild-born Sumatran orangutans originating from two genetically distinct populations, we recently combined field experiments with captive work to show that genetic differences could not account for differences in their knowledge of stick use.

An important and growing body of captive work shows that apes are cognitive animals and do not simply react following stimulus-response patterns; therefore, it is not entirely suprising that they can represent their cultural knowledge.

They also say the three men taken captive were working within the legal limits set by the Congress.

Here is how captive reinsurance works: A life insurer sells policies, creating long-term obligations.

"For 'La Captive,' I worked a lot in interior spaces," Ms. Akerman said in a cafe on the Place des Vosges.

Launched in late 2011, Captive Media works on the premise that the average 55 seconds a man stands in front of a urinal during each "visit" to a public washroom is a wasted advertising opportunity, especially since the audience is so captive.

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