Sentence examples for taking prisoners of from inspiring English sources

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Kidnapping – which Farc calls "taking prisoners" of innocent people is the one activity many Colombians cannot forgive.

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So this happened in 261BC and, by Ashoka's own account, 100,000 people were killed and 150,000 were taken prisoners of war.

The authorized tactics are primarily those methods used in the training of American Special Operations soldiers to prepare them for the possibility of being captured and taken prisoners of war.

They threw themselves on the mercy of American soldiers, but as hostilities had not yet formally started, they could not officially be taken prisoners of war.

One follows the words of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, when he said America was not in a position to take prisoners of war and, at the same time, that he hoped foreign recruits to the Taliban's side would not be allowed to return home.

Therefore, the responsibility of teaching the soldiers to take prisoners of war and to treat them kindly rests on the Political Section of each unit".

During Second Hungarian Army's 12 months of activity on the Russian front, from an initial force of about 200,000 Hungarian soldiers and 50,000 Jewish forced laborers, about 100,000 had been killed, 35,000 wounded, and 60,000 taken prisoners of war.

The principal objectives were to inflict heavy casualties on the attacking Coalition soldiers and take prisoners of war, who Saddam Hussein theorized would be an excellent bargaining tool with the Coalition.

Taken prisoner of war by the Americans.

One is a letter saying Mr. Daily had been taken prisoner of war.

He was taken prisoner of war at the Battle of the Bulge and was later awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.

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