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Definition of Hostage |
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Hostage
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Related Definitions: Any, As, Be, For, Given, Is, Kind, Of, On, Or, Performance, Person, Pledge, Released, Security, The, To, Treaty, Which |
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Hostage Quotations
We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons. George W. Bush Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. Steven Spielberg I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine. Hugh Laurie For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. Ibrahim Babangida Rushdie is a hostage. Don DeLillo In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. Phillip E. Johnson Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible! Dwight Schultz It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. David Antin I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. William Hurt America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. Pierre Salinger |
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Hostage Translations
hostage in Dutch is gijzelaar, garant hostage in French is otage hostage in German is Geisel hostage in Italian is ostaggio hostage in Latin is obses hostage in Norwegian is gissel hostage in Swedish is gisslan |
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