Sentence examples for the hostage taking of from inspiring English sources

The GIGN – Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale – was created in the aftermath of the deadly failure to counter the hostage taking of Israeli Olympians at the 1972 Games in Munich.

Whether or not the trade encourages the hostage taking of Americans by terrorists seeking to free their comrades is an empirical question that will vindicate either Obama or his critics.

The son of another member of the group of five students who took over the embassy also told the BBC: "The names of the first five and the 10 that joined to execute the takeover are public and there is no doubt that Mr Aboutalebi was not in any way a major player in planning or execution of the hostage taking of US embassy staff in Tehran".

The United States and Iran have not had diplomatic relations since the aftermath of the 1979 hostage taking of the United States Embassy in Tehran, but natural disasters have sometimes been a way of engaging in direct communication, beyond politics.

How could any credit rating agency watch the ideological fanaticism and debt-limit hostage taking of the Tea Party Republicans in the House of Representatives and not downgrade its confidence in the ability of the United States government to address our nation's economic needs effectively?

He spoke to the American people of his sense that the hostage taking posed something of a dilemma, not easily solved.

"They always get work done at the end of sessions, they always put things off until they have to do them, but it's the hostage taking and recklessness of it all that is so unusual".

Iranian news accounts of Ayatollah Khamenei's warning said he issued it during a meeting with high school students, a few days before the commemoration of the anniversary of the hostage taking at the United States Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979.

The F.B.I. has even investigated a person in the United States who appeared to have unusually detailed knowledge of the hostage taking, but has rejected the idea that he was involved, officials say.

One of the hostages taken captive in a Paris supermarket following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January has spoken of how he made it his "mission" to ensure no one else died.

He told the television station KTN that most of the hostages taken by the militants had been rescued.