Sentence examples for ransom fund from inspiring English sources

1938 Freud 'Ransom' Fund Raised in U.S. NEW YORK — Professor Sigmund Freud, pioneer psycho-analyst, was enabled to leave Austria through the efforts of American scientists and the American Psychoanalytic Association which raised a substantial sum to ransom the distinguished savant.

When countries like Italy pay ransoms, they do it not by earmarking some government money as a ransom fund, but by pulling shenanigans.

The government points to the urgent need to end the kidnapping of western visitors and stop the flow of ransom funds to al-Qaida.

America is also famously unwilling to pay ransoms for kidnapped civilians.Thankfully for business travellers who are headed to particularly terrifying places, taxpayer dollars are not the only possible source of ransom funds.

Despite Apple's claim to several common shapes, they likely didn't patent all of them, so the next time around Cupertino might have to fork over a lot more ransom funds for the safe return of Siri.

While Trudeau argued ransom payments fund terrorism and criminal activity and set a dangerous precedent, he offered no viable alternative as to how Canada would save its citizens.

But in the current battle, Waters, Warren and their allies have neither asked for a ransom to fund the government nor said they were willing to trigger a government shutdown.

Nowadays they often pass on their victims to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based franchise of the global group, which in turn uses the cash from ransoms to fund its operations.

But what happens when a business set up to deal with criminal gangs finds itself in a world in which proscribed jihadi groups use ransom money to fund terrorist operations?

"From the Greek debt debacle, to Argentina being held to ransom by vulture funds, to decades-old debt crises in Jamaica and El Salvador, the need for change has never been clearer.

The new counter-terrorism Bill – which will also include plans for increased powers to relocate terror suspects around the country, and prevent insurers from funding ransom payments to terrorist groups – was criticised by campaigners who described it as a "chilling recipe for injustice".