Sentence examples for we are held captive from inspiring English sources

As the awful pair rattle around the British countryside harassing quarry-owners about fossils and a dairy farmer over the licence-papers of his herd, we are held captive in their awful, co-dependent world.

According to this tradition, we do not suffer primarily from the fact that we are not recognized, but rather from the fact that we are held captive within a specific pattern of socially mandated recognition (Bedorf 2010).

Once we are held captive by this picture, "my country right or wrong" becomes a proper sentiment and not a wild effusion of prejudice, because we cannot conceive of the nation being wrong.

It didn't matter, as we were held captive by our favourite shows and the ads that appeared inside them (with no remote or digital video recorder to skip commercials).

But as a woman, my fear throughout that week we were held captive was that I would be raped.

Is she... OK? Watching her, we're held captive by this strange situation, so different from any situation we have been in ourselves.

"Whether we recognize it or not, Americans are held captive to the will of religious right leaders who remind us of our inferior position by using the power of government to enforce laws that put truth claims about religion in front of us at every turn," Ardiente said.

Over 100 hostages, including 13 foreigners, are held captive.

They're not rehab centers but incarceration centers where children are held captive".

We heard the conversation from the room in which we were being held captive, through a half-closed door.

Jin-man and Si-bong start to copy him, packing their notes — "We are being held captive.