Sentence examples similar to ex captive from inspiring English sources

WHERE would they be without their past, the ex-captive nations?

But the ex-captive nations do not have the luxury of time to dither about reform.

The great worry for the ex-captive nations was always that they would get old before they got rich.

At a viewable feeding platform, the camp staff leaves bananas for the ex-captive orangutans and their offspring.

This argument seems to sway the EU, which regards all the ex-captive nations' rows with their former master as bilateral matters.

President Traian Basescu has energetically pushed the idea of using his country to open the Black Sea region to American and European influence.So long as the European Union's own foreign policy looks muddled and weak, the ex-captive nations are likely to look mostly to America for security.

(Admittedly, Schengen and American visas can still be shamefully hard to come by, even for citizens of ex-captive nations that are loyally Euroatlantic in outlook).What the EU will not say, but thinks privately, is this: We are supporting Kosovo's independence because of the chance that it will become more like us, and hence a better neighbour.

Whether delivering the West's message to Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia ("Misha: just shut the **** up"), charming George Bush, or hobnobbing with Carl Bildt, his Swedish foreign-minister chum, Mr Ilves had a flying start in 2006 and will be the ex-captive nations' best spokesman in 2007.Biggest disappointment: Poland's Law and Justice government, which wasted most of 2006 in political intrigue.

The practice was justified by the fact that many of these apes were orphans or ex-captives and couldn't survive entirely on their own; it was also the only way that tourists had any chance to see them.

They will also be able to tell the difference between an ex-captive orangutan and a wild one.

Initially set up to document orangutans in the wild, Camp Leakey served as a rehabilitation site for ex-captive orangutans, as the forests they were surrounded by started to dwindle.