Sentence examples for hostage taking over from inspiring English sources

The siege began on Sunday when Taliban prisoners disarmed two guards and took them hostage, taking over much of the prison, which houses 580 insurgents.

Madison designed our Constitution to eliminate the need for hostage taking over funding government, and to ensure the sanctity of contracts.

From filibusters to "holds" to the "hostage taking" over the budget and the debt ceiling, the Republicans in the Senate and House have stretched the rules and conventions of Congress to breaking-point.

Prisoners smashed windows at HM Prison Verne on 9 April, and 40 prisoners held a prison officer hostage for twenty-four hours after taking over a hall at HM Prison Shotts on 10 April.

89 people reportedly died at Le Bataclan venue in Paris after terrorists shot into the crowd after taking over 100 people hostage.

"After this failed, the terrorist group headed towards the camp, taking over part of it and taking hostage an unknown number of workers, among whom were foreign nationals".

While distracted, terrorists activate an EMP, attacking and taking over the CTU LA main building, holding the staff members hostage.

Terrorists taking over a plant and threatening to allow an accident to occur could hold a city hostage.

During the long years when Hollywood scorned the military, Milius and his officer friends "played complex war games, dealing with everything from taking over a country to how to keep a country from being taken over, or getting hostages out of a small village.

But the decision to vote on a short-term extension -- which will prevent the government from defaulting on its obligations -- offered a clear indication that Republicans have backed off earlier threats to engage in hostage taking tactics over the debt ceiling, following a series of similar statements from other notable Republicans.

Mr. Gechem Turbay was taken hostage after hijackers took over the DeHavilland Dash-8-300 Dash-8-300 Dash-8-300turboprop