Sentence examples for kidnapping rather from inspiring English sources

Judge Guzman, who is also handling charges filed against General Pinochet himself, is prosecuting General Arellano and his team for kidnapping, rather than murder.

Two months ago, Palestinians tried to kidnap Israelis in a raid across the Egyptian border, and if they had succeeded in kidnapping, rather than killing, a number of Israelis, I am quite sure that Israel would have waged a large-scale ground campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Mr. Long said his client did not consider Elizabeth's disappearance a kidnapping but rather a "call from God".

While its leaders have in recent years pledged allegiance to Isis, analysts say the group is mainly focused on a lucrative kidnapping business rather than religious ideology.

Nonetheless, he can't shake the feeling that he has kidnapped Yreka rather than adopted her, and that somewhere in San Francisco is a person or a couple or a family that misses the dog.

It's fair to say that this kidnap plot, rather like that of the nihilists in The Big Lebowski, isn't really the film's central concern; we're hardly on tenterhooks to find out who did it and why.

The 19 people -- who were among 75 prisoners believed to have been summarily executed -- have never been found, but the Supreme Court has accepted Judge Guzman's interpretation that they should be considered kidnap victims, rather than dead.

Rick Blears, a spokesman for an advocacy group supporting kidnapped seafarers, Save Our Seafarers, said that Mrs. Tebbutt's release, while welcome, had shown that "the media spotlight is firmly on kidnapped civilians rather than any of the 233 working seafarers who are currently in captivity and have been so many months".

But the most tormented character may be Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose connection to the kidnapping is professional rather than personal.

Though they used to concentrate on kidnapping and smuggling rather than launching terrorist attacks, some of them know how to make car-bombs and suicide vests.

He would focus on curbing violence, kidnapping and extortion, rather than ending drug trafficking (an impossible task which he would be wise to leave mainly to America, which buys the stuff).