Sentence examples for taking captive from inspiring English sources

But by Friday the rebels appeared to have reversed the advance, taking captive 51 pro-regime fighters, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

At 8 45, the Lieberman entourage swept through the glass front door, unannounced, taking captive three dozen bewildered diners, most of them middle-aged.

The UED force meets success in its initial battles, quickly bringing the Dominion to its knees and taking captive a new Overmind growing to replace the one killed by Tassadar.

At the same time, they warred upon neighbouring tribes, capturing horses and taking captives.

In the early 1840s he began raiding, taking captives as slaves to the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay.

First came the Portuguese, in the 1480s, enslaving and destablising as British ships arrived taking captives.

The widespread practice of taking captives in forager warfare casts Stockholm syndrome in a new light.

Caitlin Coleman and her husband were taken captive in 2012 and Coleman gave birth in captivity.

Another tract, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, suggested that the sacraments themselves had been taken captive by the church.

Taken captive, Bayezid died within a year.

Knight was the first taken captive by Castro, in August 2002.