Sentence examples for captors off from inspiring English sources

If caught by police, and they don't have enough money to pay their captors off, they're sent back to Chechnya to certain death.

McAfee admitted that while on the lam, he told a number of lies to keep his captors off his trail.

In reply, on July 4th, the corporal's Palestinian captors broke off talks with Egyptian mediators.

To punish him for violating their trust, his captors cut off his eyelids and stood him in the noon sun to go blind.

The activist Dmytro Bulatov was kidnapped in January; his captors cut off a piece of his ear and drove nails through his hands.

Where is the Roman consul Regulus in the painting in which his Carthaginian captors rip off his eyelids to blind him?

It is not clear what Mr. Pearl saw, but during the final stretch of the ride his captors turned off a main highway heading north and drove toward the Gulshan-e-Maymar housing development on the outskirts of Karachi, which resembles an American suburban subdivision.

During the ransom talks, Mr Wahbh's captors cut off his little finger and sent it, along with a video showing what they had done, to his family.

It was initially reported that she had been killed by one of her captors setting off a suicide vest.

And though they possess ample firepower, the captors often come off as captives.

His captors had cut off the fingers he had wagged at the camera.