Sentence examples for could be spirited away from inspiring English sources

By April 7th the French, who had spearheaded the latest military and diplomatic efforts to oust him, were prepared to give him a little more time in the hope that he could be spirited away without being manhandled or killed.Presuming that Mr Gbagbo, alive or dead, does go, Mr Ouattara will struggle to heal the nation's wounds so bloodily opened in the past ten days.

Bowie stole every scene he was in, and left so many of us wishing we could be spirited away too.

The hostages in Lebanon could easily be spirited away to Syria, or even Iran.

Perhaps Mr Chen will be spirited away to America, or find a way to live normally in China.

It is a loophole that allows royalties to be spirited away into a zero-tax haven.

"They shouldn't be spirited away where you have special access," he said.

Sotheby's says the sculpture could have been spirited away any time during its thousand-year history and was bought in good faith by the husband of its current owner in 1975 from a London dealer.

Could Mr Rybkin have been spirited away by the security services, as a warning to tone down his criticism of the president?

If some is missing and all other possibilities are accounted for, physicists could surmise that the energy was spirited away by the heavy gravitons, carried off into hyperspace.

By then the documents they wanted to see had been spirited away, but the inspectors could see that furniture and filing cabinets had been moved, which gave further weight to their suspicions.

Our bags were spirited away.