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Example sentences for: hostages

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The daimyo were required to spend alternate years in Edo, while their families lived there all the time, as hostages of sorts.
Rebels holding hostages at a diplomat's house in Peru broke off talks with the government.
If Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had operated like Kenneth Starr, he would have forced Reagan, while president, to repeat or renounce under oath his public lies about Iran-Contra, such as those in his first TV address on the subject, when he declared it "utterly false" that arms had been shipped to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages.
McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.
That scandal, you may remember, featured the elder Bush secretly flying not to Houston but to Paris in October 1980 to cut a deal with the Iranian mullahs so that the American hostages would not be released before Election Day--thus, according to the theory, ensuring Ronald Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter.