Sentence examples for captors passed from inspiring English sources

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But the rest is up to you.'" Gaiman crafted the new character from an initial image of "a man, young, pale and naked, imprisoned in a tiny cell, waiting until his captors passed away ... deathly thin, with long dark hair, and strange eyes".

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We're at a pivotal moment in history," Banks tweeted last month after fans anxiously asked if Jack Donaghy's wife would be set free now that her captor had passed on.

He added: "We had information from the outset that the objective of Linda's captors was to pass her further up the Taliban command chain and perhaps move her to even more inaccessible terrain.

It's not clear what prompted his kidnappers to carry out their threats, but a video released by the group shows Ridsdel's captors brutally beheaded him when the deadline passed.

Almost 100 of the inmates who passed through Guantánamo are listed by their captors as having had depressive or psychotic illnesses.

At Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Mr. Brachman reported, Mr. Libi "passed time by intimately studying his American captors as they aimlessly surfed the Internet or complained to him about their dysfunctional childhoods".

Was an assault the best option for freeing her? (Hague said there were "no credible options," and that her captors' plan was "to pass her further up the Taliban command chain").

If they whispered pleasing things, their captor would feed them conservative judges while the party's congressional leaders passed donor-friendly legislation.

That deadline passed on Friday with no word on the two hostages from their captors.

When Friday's deadline passed with no news of the fate of two Japanese hostages threatened with execution by their Isis captors, Japan allowed itself to hope that the men would be spared.

The journalist asked if any Frenchmen were captives, and the militant then passed the phone to Mr. Desjeux, 52, who said he was being well treated and that the captors wanted the French government to warn Algeria not to raid the factory.

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