Sentence examples for had been hostage from inspiring English sources

Around the same time, Ukraine's finance minister resigned, saying that the job had been "hostage to politics".

Rejecting criticism of the steering group's projections, the former army officer said the event had been "hostage to the weather".

There had been hostage-takings before, including the capture of some 2,000 people in 1996.

All three men had been hostages, the police said.

We who had been hostages to fortune -- family, house, a business -- learned to take what we could get.

First stop: a heart-rending visit to the ruins of School No. 1 where the memories of those children who had been hostages begin to flow rapidly.

If he had a small majority, he would have been hostage to his most ideological members.

The Zardari government, since the ousting of General Pervez Musharraf from power and its election to office in 2008, has been hostage to rights-unfriendly coalition partners.

They could have been hostages themselves had it been revealed.

He faced a five-year slog until the next election; policies annouced early on would have been hostages to fortune.

At least two of them have been hostages of Isis whom the US did not mean to kill.