Sentence examples for child kidnappings from inspiring English sources

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The child kidnappings were not covered by past pardons, but prosecutions have been slow.

(His pièce de résistance managed to connect nudity at the Ledges to child kidnappings and to Palestinians dancing in the streets after the September 11th attacks).

Since the scary cluster of child kidnappings this summer, parents who are buying the electronic leashes are probably thinking of them as insurance against their worst fear.

We are living in an age of fear — swine flu, terrorism, global warming, child kidnappings, the economy — that reduces our productivity at best and destroys our health, relationships, and happiness at worst.

Sometimes it is weather alerts – warning of hurricanes or winter storms – but they have also been used to tell people to "shelter in place" during a terrorist attack, such as during the Boston bombing in 2013, or to raise the alarm about child kidnappings.

Based on a real-life 2010 case, the film is about a farmer who searched for his abducted son for 14 years – and a sombre return to the preoccupations of last year's Chinese hit Dearest ($54m), which also drew on the country's estimated 70,000 annual child kidnappings.

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A UN report documented the group's reign of terror in its strongholds, holding public executions and floggings, the use of child soldiers, kidnappings, beatings and beheadings.

[On Friday, the United Nations condemned a series of killings of children and kidnappings in Somalia, where gunmen have killed several schoolchildren in attacks on buses in the last month.] The United States ignored Somalia in the years after 1993, when 18 American soldiers were killed in an aid mission that went awry.

In an op-ed, he warned that if they were allowed to participate in politics "FARC kingpins who ordered massacres, kidnappings, child-soldier recruitment and extortions will now run for mayors and governors of the regions they victimized".

Huzaifa fled Syria with his brother eight months ago, sent by parents alarmed at the rising incidence of kidnappings and child soldiers in the ruins of Aleppo.

"There were definitely kidnappings of children in prisons, abuses.

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