Sentence examples for treated as hostages from inspiring English sources

Officer families were treated as hostages.

Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who oversees the Philippine national police department, said that it was unclear how many villagers were in the occupied areas but that the figure could be around 200. "Whatever the number, it doesn't appear that they are being treated as hostages because they are free to move about," he said.

We were treated as well as citizens.

Toys count as treats as well.

On a positive note, New Yorkers have once again proved their resolve by not being intimidated by the strike, which virtually treated them as hostages and bargaining chips.

The Jews' ordeal and escape was still fresh in their memories: they were rescued as recently as the 1990s, The regime spied on them, treated them as hostages, abducted their leaders and murdered those trying to escape, while the Syrian people nurtured a fearsome level of anti-Jewish hatred.

Hostages are usually treated as honoured guests and released quite soon.

Mr Shekau said the hostages would be treated as "slaves", fuelling concern that Boko Haram is adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves with whom their "masters" can have sex.

The video plea represents a sharp change in strategy in a case that, for years, the US treated as a diplomatic issue rather than a hostage situation.

She was taken captive for six months and treated as a sex slave, forced to eat flesh from the dead bodies of fellow hostages to keep herself alive.

"They were treated as outcasts.