Sentence examples for kidnapping from inspiring English sources

After a failed "kidnapping" of him and another sister as schoolchildren, the obese and gormless Jean-Claude, a poor student, was next heard of in 1971 when his ailing father named him as the country's next "president-for-life" and had him endorsed in a rigged referendum (2,391,916 to one, with two abstentions).

Gunmen in northern Ethiopia have attacked a group of European tourists, killing five, injuring two and kidnapping four people, according to a government official.

And its sensational, exponential popularity growth on the web is already achieving one of its stated objectives: to make Kony famous, to publicise this psychopathic warlord's grotesque crimes – kidnapping thousands of children and turning them into mercenaries, butchers and rapists.

"We are against paying ransoms and we take part alongside other countries in multilateral efforts to combat the phenomenon of kidnapping.

It's kidnapping' The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago's west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units.

So it was that a few years after M, in his first English-language film, Lorre was endangering children again, kidnapping a teenage Nova Pilbeam in the first version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).

Before Boko Haram started kidnapping and killing children, its murderous hatred was directed chiefly against the state.

Related: Chibok kidnapping: stoicism as girls taken by Boko Haram are remembered Boko Haram has been fighting to impose sharia law across Nigeria's north for the last six years, massacring civilians and kidnapping thousands of women and children, most notoriously a group of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok.

Anyone involved in crimes, including torture, killing and kidnapping, would face prosecution, he said.

Eight years ago the ghosts of Argentina's dirty war – during which 30,000 suspected leftists were kidnapped and killed – returned to haunt him when he was accused of complicity in the kidnapping in 1976 of two liberal Jesuit priests.

What a difference a campaign makes: last April the central government launched a six-month crusade against kidnapping, and claims thereby to have returned 13,000 kidnapped children seven times as many as in all 1999 across the country.