Sentence examples for majority of captives from inspiring English sources

Women and children often witnessed these killings before being forcibly transferred to locations in Iraq, and from there to Syria, where the majority of captives remain.

The majority of captive wild boar used in this study represent specimens from the historic livestock garden of the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), where they had been captive for at least three generations.

The militants likely dragged off the majority of their captives in retreat, pulling them deeper into ISIS territory.

A majority of the captives taken were women and children who French and Indian captors viewed as being more likely than adult males to successfully integrate into native communities and a new life in French Canada.

In this regard, a majority of sedated captive dolphins, beluga, Pseudorca or Orca have maintained their capability for movement and respirations.

Since extensive sampling of the entire distribution range was not a feasible option, we took advantage of a large community of specialized and highly-dedicated breeders that have as mission the maintenance of pure genetic strains, the vast majority of these captive strains are endowed with a collection code that identifies the original collection locality [ 4].

The overwhelming majority of Palestinian prisoners are political captives who have been arbitrarily imprisoned or detained under the broad banner of "security", according to the Israeli human rights group B'tselem.

The British captives, a majority of whom were wounded, were disarmed and marched down a road off the Rue du Paradis.

The businesses that remained tended not to serve the majority of nearby Pittsburghers, but only the captive audience that remained in what was now an urban ghetto.

Four decades ago, they laughed at self-insurance through captives; today the number of captives tops 4,000.

But already the hundreds of captives were becoming unruly.