Sentence examples for captives through from inspiring English sources

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In Tskhinvali yesterday, the South Ossetians paraded around 40 haggard and frightened-looking Georgian civilian captives through the city.

"African Portraits," by Hannibal Lokumbe, is a music drama that evokes the experience of the African captives through the Middle Passage to slavery.

The ebb and flow of the narrative, with each side gaining and losing, cutting off heads here and parading humiliated captives through the streets there, exemplifies the overarching theme, so deeply imbued in Buddhism, of human transience.

He promptly secured the surrender of the pro-Confederate militia units just outside the city, but created a riot in the streets of St . Louiswhen he marched his captives through the city as a lesson to recalcitrant Southern sympathizers.

On April 9, terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants (240 men, women, and children) and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.

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We heard the conversation from the room in which we were being held captive, through a half-closed door.

Of course, any reservations over that detour have long since dissipated by the episode's climax, an uninterrupted six-minute tracking shot following Cohle and his biker captive through a roiling neighbourhood riot.

It's been rumored he pays thousands of bucks to have aliens pulled out of his body, and, the film suggests, he's held captive through threats to expose his sexuality.

Al-Shabab militants have denied involvement, although the captives passed through territory under their control, and may still be there.

Once doctor said that the captives came through relatively well; many things that might have gone wrong inside the bank had not.

The opera takes place on the border between spring and summer, and in the novel too the captives live through the drizzly, misty days of the garua, which renders the passage of time irrelevant.

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