Sentence examples for set captive from inspiring English sources

This followed tests in which scientists from New Zealand and Oxford set captive crows a three-stage problem.

To set captives free is the knight's pragmatic way of battling against death.

Year after year she taught him to embrace not only the Quaker belief that the best way to set captives free is by using the spiritual weapons of nonviolence but also the black church's conviction that God demands the liberation of the oppressed right here and right now.

Setting Captives Free is a 60-day Christian course of reading scripture and answering both personal and religious questions.

He was a "former" gay man who had been through Setting Captives Free, as well as a 150-day mentorship program.

In the short term, conservationists are urging zoos to set up captive breeding programmes for the most threatened amphibians.

The solution as envisioned by many organizations is to set up captive power plants for electricity generation or diesel generator set as a back-up, which is again not a clean energy.

Mr. Massimo said he had set up captives that were 99 percent owned by a person's children, while giving the business owner voting control with his 1 percent stake.

But the rush to set up captives could lead to problems for the business owners and for people filing claims against them.

In recent years, some states have been promoting themselves as good places to set up captives, promising insurers an offshore-style regulatory environment without the need to go offshore.

But in 2002, the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance on how to set up captives to comply with the tax code, and that gave way to a rush to form them, said Jay Adkisson, chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on captive insurance companies and a former owner of such a company in the British Virgin Islands.