Sentence examples for take hostage from inspiring English sources

But he can't meet the prisoners he had promised to either convert or take hostage and he can't issue proclamations.

"It's a lot of people to take hostage — a lot of civilians," said a senior Western official here who requested anonymity because of the delicacy of the situation.

In "Ravens," the flawed and vulnerable souls are two grifters who take hostage a family that has just won the lottery.

Nora went on to excoriate "certain defenders of memory" for their "tendency to impose a tyrannical, sometimes terrorist memory vis-à-vis the scientific community" and for self-appointed custodians of memorial orthodoxy "to take hostage historical research".

Nora went on to excoriate "certain defenders of memory" for their "tendency to impose a tyrannical, sometimes terrorist memory vis- is the scientific community" and for self-appointed custodians of memorial orthodoxy "to take hostage historical research".

The police chief said that Mr. Thaxton did not know Mr. Breitsman but that he appeared to have chosen him to take hostage because the 16th floor may have been accessible without a key card.

There was no attempt to take hostages.

"He would take hostages again.

They also continue to take hostages.

Blow yourself up, take hostages, poison a river, white powder.

Blow up a building, an airplane, take hostages.