Sentence examples for he is captive from inspiring English sources
Hinting that Turnbull's position in private may be different to public support for the plebiscite, Shorten said: "Now Malcolm Turnbull knows the right way to go here but he is captive.
Even as the president scrambled to blame the Clinton administration for the energy woes, House Democrats held a news conference today to upbraid Mr. Bush as having a "do-nothing response" because he is captive to the industry.
The doctor said the fighters had asked him to perform the operation in Zintan, but that it was not clear if they wanted it done in the house where he is captive or the town's single hospital.
In "What Are Years" all but one of the last six verbs is "is," and yet the lines conclude with the colossal air-borne grandeur of church bells echoing on a frosty autumn morning:... Though he is captive, his mighty singing says, satisfaction is a lowly thing, how pure a thing is joy.
In Hayden's campaign meanderings, there is also something else — a sense that he is captive to a need for personal momentum, a demand to move from one psychic place to another.
To those who thought he was captive to the special interests, he made his case on earmarks and reform.
Instead, by nightfall he was captive in the hospital, his every word scrutinized by guards who stay with him 24 hours a day.
When I asked about the living conditions while he was captive, he lowered his head to express his sadness and told me: "We really lived under difficult conditions.
A Senate Democratic aide said Lugar's decision not to cosponsor this time around wasn't entirely surprising, arguing that he was captive to a changing Republican Party.
"For almost a decade, Ailes had played a role in driving the news; now he was captive to it, with few apparent options to reverse the ratings trend, and at Fox there were incipient signs of panic.
