View example sentences and word forms for Captives.
Captives meaning
plural of captive
Example sentences (20)
Giving an update on the operation in a statement on Tuesday, Maj. Clement Abiade, the Acting Force Information Officer, Operation Sharan Daji, said 55 of the freed captives were held captives in Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara.
Bent elbows and knees are common in depictions of Maya captives; the full-frontal view of the face is rare in Maya art except among representations of captives.
Some captives were adopted into the Mohawk and Abenaki tribes; older captives were generally ransomed, and the colonies carried on a brisk trade.
After that, Ryouma has to carve out a life for himself alongside a pair of twin captives that he saves not long after he escapes the O'ltomea Empire.
Anger over the mistaken killings is likely to increase pressure on the Israeli government to renew Qatar-mediated negotiations with Hamas over swapping more of the remaining captives, which Israel says number 129, for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
An unequivocal expression of this obligation may be found in the words of Maimonides in the 12th century: “The redemption of captives takes precedence over the feeding and clothing of the poor.
BEN-GVIR: Military pressure must increase to release captives.
Debate may rage about who exactly “betrayed” Guevara — perhaps Mario Monje and the Bolivian Communist Party which saw Che’s mission as vain and dangerous, or the Bolivian army’s captives such as Régis Debray.
Eulogy Jones is notorious for abusing his captives.
Head of Egypt’s state information service says 12 Thai nationals to be freed from Gaza Friday, with 13 Israeli captives.
He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to bind up hearts that are broken; to proclaim liberty to captives, freedom to those in prison; to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord.
He said the group is aiming to free all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, which in the past has agreed to lopsided exchange deals in which it released large numbers of prisoners for individual captives or even the remains of soldiers.
In a rare coordination between the warring parties, Russia and Ukraine carried out another prisoner swap, with 106 Russian captives freed in exchange for 100 Ukrainians.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, which governs Gaza, after its fighters crossed into southern Israel on October 7. Israel said 1,200 people were killed and some 240 captives taken in the terror attack.
Mr Netanyahu vowed to continue the war after the truce expires, with the goal of destroying Hamas’ military capabilities, ending its 16-year rule in Gaza and returning all of the estimated 240 captives held in Gaza by Hamas and other groups.
Once formed, captives operate similar to traditional commercial insurance carriers.
On Thursday, 39 Palestinian prisoners and 13 Israeli captives were released under the truce agreement.
The families of hostages held in Gaza called on Israel Saturday to stop fighting and make a deal to secure their release after the army admitted "mistakenly" killing three captives in the Palestinian territory.
There's also the factor that both G'iah and Gravik used a huge array of powers in a short time, and audiences have yet to see how that might've impacted G'iah immediately after the rush of stopping her father's killer and saving human captives wore off.
The strikes on the extensive Hamas tunnel system, known colloquially to Israeli military planners as the “metro”, comes after the released hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, said she and other captives were taken deep inside the tunnels during her captivity.