Sentence examples for captured in the act from inspiring English sources

Yet, as an aide to the world's most dangerous terrorist, neither was he a conventional prisoner of war who had simply been captured in the act of defending his nation and was therefore essentially free of guilt.

Enemy vessels, enemy goods in enemy or in neutral vessels, neutral goods which are contraband, and neutral vessels which have been captured in the act of running a legal blockade or rendering unneutral service are subject to condemnation.

Details of this ceremony are depicted on the face of Altar 5, where both kings are captured in the act re-interring the bones of the deceased in a prominent area of Tikal.

They had been captured in the act of fleeing and were being strung up on nooses.

With the help of the overseer, Allazim, the three escape but are captured in the second act.

The ibex displaying a positive status for antibodies against C. pseudotuberculosis at t0, when first captured in the wild, may have acted as a source of infection within the enclosure.

In the weeks since photographs of naked detainees set off the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, military officials have portrayed the sexual humiliation captured in the images as the isolated acts of a rogue night shift.

The conflict between the Montagues and Capulets, captured in the stirring street fight scene in Act I, faded quickly.

Portions of his act were captured in the short film Strange as It Seems (1930) and in Politiquerias (1931), the Spanish-language version of Laurel and Hardy's Chickens Come Home.

Many of them represent the first instances of certain sex acts being captured in the nascent medium.

Gloriously captured in the film.