Sentence examples for ransom into from inspiring English sources

The moneyed Sheik from Dubai, who sent two horses worthy of a royal ransom into the fray, couldn't get a sniff.

What he has not done is to attempt to soften the monstrous ransom into comedy by wedging sentimentalities onto a barbaric beginning.

With loans from family members and friends in Michoacán, T said that at the end of the four days he arranged for a friend to deposit the ransom into a bank account with a number provided by the kidnappers.

The erstwhile league leaders picked up a solitary point in their next four matches before Quini was released following the payment of a ransom into a Swiss bank account.

"The Abu Sayyaf has turned kidnapping-for-ransom into a cottage industry," said the Rappler story, written by Maria Ressa, a journalist with deep experience with insurgencies in the Philippines and Indonesia.

In it, the Prime Minister is ransomed into having sex with a live pig on national television.

A share in a ransom translates into an easier life of meat and honey; not just pirate parties but a beautiful bride, a camel, a home, even a car.

In all the above respects, the flight attendant has less in common with the ideologue or selfless hero than with D. B. Cooper, the skyjacker who in 1971 parachuted out of an airplane with a bag of ransom money, into a densely wooded patch of Washington State.

In August, Mr. Enniss will take over as director from Thomas F. Staley, a James Joyce specialist who in his 25-year tenure is credited with turning the Ransom Center into one of the world's major literary depositories, as well as the frequent destination for archives of contemporary writers like J.M. Coetzee, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo and Norman Mailer.

The motives of kidnappers in Enugu are primarily financial and some ransoms went into the millions of Naira.

Reports in one Arab newspaper, the London based al-Quds al-Arabi, suggested that the Italian government had already entered into ransom negotiations for the pair by August last year.