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Hostage meaning
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal. | A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage. | Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk.
Example sentences (20)
Noam Peri, whose father Chaim Peri, 79, is held hostage in Gaza, speaks as the families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza hold a press conference at "Hostages Square," outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, December 16, 2023.
One hostage clearly has an abdominal wound, but the other hostage does not appear to be hurt — and certainly isn’t being handled like a patient.
A forum of hostage families called for a massive protest on Sunday, demanding a “complete halt of the country” to push for the implementation of a ceasefire and hostage release.
Hamas has released a statement announcing that a female hostage being held in Gaza was killed in recent weeks, and a second hostage was injured.
However, ultimately, what became cemented in Carter’s legacy were the failures of the Iran hostage crisis, when mobs ransacked the US embassy in Tehran capturing 52 people and holding them hostage for the duration of his presidency.
In 2017, using a backhoe to smash through a barricade of water-filled footlockers, police stormed Delaware’s largest prison, ending a nearly 20-hour hostage standoff with inmates; one hostage, a guard, was killed.
Hostage of the Media/ Holding the Media hostage.
S. forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of October 31 in Northern Nigeria to recover an American citizen held hostage by a group of armed men.
But because the United States government isn’t calling Paul a hostage, she hasn’t gotten any help from the alphabet soup of bureaucrats and secret service agents whose job it is to bring home Americans who are being held hostage abroad.
A hostage situation was under way at a restaurant in Miami on Monday afternoon, with management “holding employees and some patrons hostage,” police said.
At the same time as the hostage taking at De Punt in Groningen, another group took a number of school children and their teachers hostage in a school in Bovensmilde.
Military commandos stormed the embassy compound in May 1997, which resulted in the death of all 15 hostage takers, one hostage, and 2 commandos.
Standard monetary bonuses are awarded for winning a round, losing a round, killing an enemy, being the first to instruct a hostage to follow, rescuing a hostage, planting the bomb (Terrorist) or defusing the bomb (Counter-Terrorist).
The remaining hostage was wounded and the hostage takers escaped.
These narratives provide a rationale for a "hostage-rescue" motif, in which cults are likened to POW camps and deprogramming as heroic hostage rescue efforts.
AAP is reporting that a strip in the centre of Sydney’s CBD will be closed off to display empty prams and the images of children held hostage by Hamas to show solidarity with Israel as communities across the nation remain divided over the conflict.
Abbott recounted the hostage crisis at a synagogue in Colleyville, TX in 2022, lauding the “swift action by law enforcement” to save the hostages, but acknowledged that the threat of antisemitism remains.
Abrams does a great job at cutting between the relentless action moments and the more subtle tension of Davian holding Julia hostage.
After a few hours, emergency services contacted us and told us that they saw a video of my brother and his girlfriend Noa taken hostage toward the Strip,” he said.
After a lengthy hostage situation, police arrested the man, 55, for investigation of kidnapping and indecent exposure.