Sentence examples for was in captivity to from inspiring English sources

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Summers was in captivity to Wall Street interests.

The British foreign office asked the media not to release details about Norgrove's personal life while she was in captivity to avoid attaching "trophy value" to her kidnapping.

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Prince John, however, hearing that Richard was in captivity, immediately went to France and swore homage to King Philip for Richard's lands, and then returned to England and raised a rebellion.

Thursday, the Daily Beast Web site published two letters obtained from sources in touch with the Taliban who said they were written by Bergdahl while he was in captivity and passed to his parents through the International Red Cross.

Tandja, in power for more than a decade in the uranium-rich nation, is believed to be in captivity at a military barracks.

The European nightjar has been observed in captivity to be able to maintain a state of torpor for at least eight days without harm, but the relevance of this to wild birds is unknown.

The bear has never known the wild, being born in captivity to captive parents.

Guido was born in captivity to Estela's daughter, Laura, a Peronist student and militant in the armed guerrilla group Montoneros, which the Argentine junta brutally suppressed.

I was in captivity for five years.

Aside from castes with an internal kuti system, there are seventeen caste groups, called Ciraikutis, or imprisoned kutis, whose members were considered to be in captivity, confined to specific services such as washing, weaving, and toddy tapping.

After they are bred with their predetermined mates, their offspring, generation F1, will be grown in captivity to adulthood.

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