Hostage in example sentence

To demand that every case that seems to look alike be treated alike might set the bar impossibly high, and certainly runs the risk of becoming hostage to critics – like those who attack the intervention in Libya – who assert that if you can’t act everywhere, you shouldn’t act anywhere.

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I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box.

They were holding something like 700 people hostage.

They'd released a bunch of people, but they still had about 700 people hostage.

So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot, by the hostage takers or by the police forces trying to deal with the situation.

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