Sentence examples for has been captive from inspiring English sources

#1 (Saycon Sengbloh) has been captive so long, kidnapped and raped as they all have been, does not remember her age.

For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre élitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty formulas of intellectual superiority.

But is the hope well-founded?The long-running Gaza negotiations, with Egypt as a go-between, got stuck at first over Hamas's demand that the ceasefire include the West Bank too, then over Israel's insistence that it include a prisoner exchange to bring back an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who has been captive in Gaza for nearly two years.

In many ways, the crucial flaw in the legal and political avenues is that they both lead back to the United Nations Security Council, which, since its first session in 1946, has been captive to the veto power of its five permanent members: Britain, Russia, China, France and the United States.

The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) has been captive in Thailand for approximately 4000 years, and is classified as a working animal under the Beast of Burden Act of 1939 [ 1– 5].

And because the dolphins had been captive their entire lives, they couldn't have picked them up from real whales.

Bsal chytridiomycosis was confirmed in this individual (Table 2), which had been captive-bred in Collection E and traded to Collection A in March 2013.

The best non-fiction of my year has been Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 by Linda Colley Jonathan Capee).

I have been captive for seven months and my situation is not good.

The FARC holds dozens of hostages in jungle jails; some have been captive for more than a decade.

In a sense, he may have been captive to his early operatic memories, to the lingering Gilded Age milieu in which he got to know the art.