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Henry Hyde, R-Ill., and his dozen co-managers, they have a captive audience.
It's the only spongiform encephalopathy known to naturally infect both free-ranging and captive animals, a situation that greatly complicates efforts to monitor, control, or eradicate it.
You might see a fisherman assigning his captive cormorants to dive, their gullets collared to stop them from eating the catch.
Here's how Larry Rohter describes it in the New York Times : "A band of guerrillas appears out of nowhere, sets up a roadblock on a main highway, stops every car or bus that happens along, takes away all the passengers who seem likely to have a good job or a prominent name, and holds them captive until a hefty ransom is paid."
(2) an “Anglo” woman kept captive in the U.S. by one or more persons of Latin-American origin.