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Example sentences for: hostages

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Specifically, Bush claimed not to have attended a January 1986 meeting at which Secretary of State George Schultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger vehemently opposed trading for hostages.
McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.
Chernomyrdin got on the phone and, in a desperate and fragmented conversation broadcast live on Russian TV, negotiated the release of the hostages.
According to Khallad, he and Hazmi spoke about the possibility of hijacking planes and crashing them or holding passengers as hostages, but only speculatively.
The Maya went out on raiding parties, taking hostages from the surrounding lands to use in their bloody ceremonies.