Sentence examples for captives to from inspiring English sources

The convention forbids governments to expose captives to "public curiosity".

Edwards was opposed to the plan — he had never advised captives to attempt an escape.

Most people-traffickers under his regime were Muslims, who converted their captives to Islam.

It's easy to ridicule cosmopolites as captives to trend, as mindless addicts of cheap luxury labels.

"The advocates became captives to their own rhetoric, and dissenting voices were ignored," those authors wrote.

Along the way, fighters randomly selected captives to kill, usually by an ax blow to the back of the head.

With the increasing profitability of slavery and the slave trade, some Africans themselves sold captives to the European traders.

Addicted to power, armed conflict and human sacrifice, they subjected enemy captives to unspeakable torments and practiced ritual self-mutilation.

At the same time, the Indonesian government has been sentencing some prominent captives to long prison terms.

Many take several wives and are still looking for captives to take as concubines, like the Yazidi women.

Carib slavers from what is now Guyana's coast led 17th-century raids in the Caura, delivering captives to the Dutch.