Sentence examples for sequestration hostage from inspiring English sources

The galactically useless Washington Post editorial board says that the coverage of this piddling event in the lives of Beltway elites has earned the White House a "proper comeuppance" for sequestration "hostage taking," the idea being that the shrewd reporters of Washington have seen through President Barack Obama's attempts to manufacture pain through automatic spending cuts and -- by golly!

Abdeslam was officially put under investigation on a series of charges including terrorist murder, complicity in a terrorist organisation, the holding and use of arms and explosives, and sequestration, relating to hostages held at the Bataclan concert hall.

As part of the 2011 deal over the debt ceiling, Congress in effect took itself hostage — the sequestration cuts, which will total two hundred and fifty billion dollars in 2013, were designed to be so onerous and ham-fisted that politicians would feel compelled to reach an agreement to avert them.

There is little chance of the Republicans acquiescing to tax hikes or the Democrats signing off on significant budget cuts, which leaves the balancing of the nation's books to sequestration -- a form of hostage taking like the government shutdown.

Initially, liberals in Congress set up a plan called "sequestration" that has held the U.S. military hostage to their desire to raise taxes.

The round of debt ceiling hostage taking that put us on the path to the sequestration in the first place was a political stunt.

Disarming the hostage takers means repealing 'sequestration' — not replacing it.

Now they bemoan sequestration.

Sequestration is law.

WHAT is sequestration?

For instance, carbon sequestration.