Sentence examples for ransomed from from inspiring English sources

After David had been ransomed from the English, Robert led an unsuccessful rebellion (1362 63).

When Romanus, who had been ransomed from the Turks, attempted to reassert his claim to the throne, he was deposed.

He was ransomed from Rome by the older tanna and sage, Rabbi Joshua Joshuaa ben Hananiah), on one of the latter's trips there.

It was during Æthelred's archbishopric that the Golden Gospels, a still-surviving 8th century gospel book, was ransomed from a raiding army and donated to Canterbury.

The prince, too, falls in love with Grusha but discards her after ransoming her from the Gypsies.

They kidnap migrant workers, mainly from Central America, and demand ransom from their impoverished families.

It has netted multi-million-euro ransoms from several European governments.

He had been kidnapped and brutally tortured for three weeks by a gang demanding a ransom from his family.

What important ideas should govern thinking about it: expiatory sacrifice, ransom from slavery, feudal satisfaction, legal justification, exemplary action?

Her son had just been abducted by people demanding a large ransom from the family, which they knew had money because they owned so many restaurants.

Many cross deserts and war zones while at the mercy of smugglers who often kidnap migrants and demand huge ransoms from their families to free them.