Sentence examples for group of captives from inspiring English sources

One group of captives was beheaded and the other was shot.Saudi Arabia said it had halted air strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen, claiming to have achieved its objectives.

Brant took five [seven] prisoners, [which the Indians prepared to burn at the stake as retribution for a previous group of captives effecting an escape from the Indians, killing several Indians to do so.

The Third of May 1808 is set in the early hours of the morning following the uprising and centers on two masses of men: one a rigidly poised firing squad, the other a disorganized group of captives held at gun point.

For six years, I had been observing the social behavior of a group of captive chimpanzees at the Arnhem Zoo in Holland.

CBS followed that up in the late summer with "Big Brother," which put cameras inside a house so the public could watch every move of a group of captive contestants.

Köhler's best known contribution to animal psychology arose from his studies of problem solving in a group of captive chimpanzees.

When a group of captive baboons encountered some kittens, Dr. de Waal said, the ordinarily ferocious primates "picked them up, held them, carried them around and adopted them as pets".

In one video released by rebels, a group of captive Ukrainians from volunteer battalions are forced to jump up and down at gunpoint by rebel commanders, reciting derogatory rhymes.

Mostly, you just have to sit back until they find you, which they inevitably do, courtesy of a series of one-person mobile-food-stand entrepreneurs who hop aboard public buses, sell their delicious and amazingly varied wares and hop out until the next group of captive diners rolls by.

By 2014, researchers had tested a vaccine on a group of captive chimpanzees.

She tested the secret-keeping skills of a group of captive chimps living in a sanctuary in Uganda.