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Despite the agreement of terms, the city was plundered and largely destroyed, and according to Byzantine sources its people were made captive and deported, leaving the city deserted.

Having foolishly picked a rose, he is made captive by the Beast (Dan Stevens), the monster formerly known as prince.

Observations were made of captive specimens in ca. 100 × 30 × 20 cm aquaria.

By 1982 only 20 remained in the wild, and efforts were made to establish a captive breeding flock in zoos.

After arriving at Seringapatam, the Christian captives were made to forcibly embrace Islam, were tortured, or sentenced to death.

The procedure followed for allocation of coal blocks to captive consumers lacked transparency as the allotment of coal blocks to prospective captive consumers were made merely on the basis of recommendation from state government and other administrative ministries without ensuring transparency and objectivity".

Anatoly B. Shcharansky, the Jewish activist who was freed last week after nine years in Soviet confinement, expressed annoyance Monday at the assertions of some Israeli newspapers that he was being made the captive of the extreme religious right.

She was the first wife of Joaquin Miller, the poet, and while living with him she was made a captive by a band of Modoc Indians for many years, and she was held prisoner and escaped with the aid of Bill Brock [sic], a white scout, whom she married and has since lived with.

But most such cross-species comparisons have been made using captive chimps, says anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Such a programme will establish whether the legal measures and other actions, such as encouragement of the use of the alternative NSAID meloxicam [16], have diminished the risk to vultures sufficiently to allow wild populations to recover or successful re-introductions to be made using captive stocks.

The pattern is predictable: a foreign aid worker or journalist (or someone mistaken for a foreigner) is abducted; certain, often juvenile, demands are made, and the captive is released unharmed - though shaken up - a few days (and often hours, later).

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