Sentence examples for freeing hostages from inspiring English sources

Several militant groups have pushed for the release of female prisoners as a condition for freeing hostages.

Intelligence and military options for freeing hostages will be kept secret as part of a classified National Security Presidential Directive.

"Human rights and cultural sensitivity had to be at the heart of what we were doing — freeing hostages, seeing civilians as assets.

On the morning after security forces stormed the Syrian Catholic church, freeing hostages but leaving far more dead and wounded behind, there were no answers.

Nor will he disclose that the Holy See's diplomatic network assists the UK in countless discreet ways – in freeing hostages, for example; or in conflict negotiations.

An intense exchange of gunfire is reported as troops blow a hole in the side of one of the school buildings and begin freeing hostages.

But the police were later able to produce the names of only 33 freed hostages.

Twice, the French had freed hostages without any loss of life.

The Taliban foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, looked embarrassed as he met the freed hostages at Kandahar airport.

Several Western officials complained that the Algerians appeared to have taken none of the usual care exercised to minimize casualties when trying to free hostages.

When two freed hostages mentioned wanting to stay or return to Iraq to continue their work, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi angrily urged them "to have some sense".