Sentence examples for ransom payment from inspiring English sources

When Ms. Boyle refused, the man pulled a gun and demanded a large ransom payment.

The two were kidnapped in 1983, and Mrs. Wang was released to organize a ransom payment.

But in most cases, hostages have been freed after a ransom payment.

The pirates had intended to take the Americans back to Somalia, where a bilingual interpreter would negotiate a ransom payment.

That might be construed as a ransom payment, which is one reason that the language of terrorism diplomacy is muffled and ambiguous.

Italy's intelligence service helped concoct a false story about a rescue of hostages by security forces to hide a ransom payment, according to a leaked spy agency document.

The ransom payments have been rising.

"Ransom payments lead to future kidnappings, and future kidnappings lead to additional ransom payments.

But ransom payments have certainly swelled AQIM's coffers.

In fact, the church had been approached about ransom payments.

Iraqi and American officials have opposed ransom payments.