During the UNSC meeting this week, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power made a case for the benefits of all governments abstaining from paying ransom charges.
The British government cannot be allowed to hold the devolved institutions to ransom in their pursuit of all-out austerity".
In fact, the Shia Muslim prince owned only six of the 40 shares and it would have required the agreement of all 35 members of the syndicate for the £2m ransom to be paid.
Only the intervention of Forster, who paid a ransom, prevented this; it did not prevent the Iroquois from stripping the prisoners of all but the clothes on their backs.
Those are more dramatic than the rest of the picture, but they're chopped together like a ransom note, all slivers and pieces.
First, it shows up the stupidity of all those newspaper spreads and BBC discussions constantly demanding "What would you cut?", like some middlebrow ransom note ("Choose now: or the lollipop lady gets it").
Northwest Orient's president, Donald Nyrop, authorized payment of the ransom and ordered all employees to cooperate fully with the hijacker.
He denied paying ransom in all but one case, involving NTV journalists, but he admitted he provided substantial aid in the form of computers and other marketable goods.
Ransom, after all, was in fact appointed.
While the siege of Tyre was in progress, Darius sent a new offer: he would pay a huge ransom of 10,000 talents for his family and cede all his lands west of the Euphrates.
