Sentence examples for effectively being held from inspiring English sources

That's that there are women in this country who are effectively being held in slavery.

It is a place, they argue, where the civilian population was effectively being held hostage under military orders.

My mother and Erich, then age 3, who were effectively being held hostage by the Germans, were allowed to travel with my father to the United States.

"Instead, the Garden — a key driver of the city's economy that supports thousands of jobs — is effectively being held hostage by a decision by public officials 50 years ago to demolish the original Penn Station".

They were convinced that Ms Yingluck, whom the army had "detained", was effectively being held hostage, presumably to guarantee the good behaviour of her more militant "red shirt" supporters.

"Thousands of East Timorese are effectively being held hostage by the very same militias that drove them from their homes in the first place," said Joe Saunders, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch.

While officially vacant, the position has effectively been held by Daniel Tarullo, a regulatory champion.

"They have now effectively been held hostage for three days," Peacock said from his Leeds home today.

Her plight was first raised three years ago, when inspectors reported a woman "who had exhibited unpredictable and violent behaviour", having "effectively been held in the segregation unit for three years with very little human contact".

(See "Iceland Succumbs").. "Iceland has effectively been held hostage to the Icesave deal.

The virtue of this approach is that in both types of cities living wages were "almost adopted," so that the factors that might have influenced policy can more effectively be held constant.