Ransom in example sentence

After all, as a campaigning investigative journalist she made many people angry besides Putin, not least of which is the current Chechen Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, whom she accused of a policy of kidnapping for ransom.

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You know, who is going to say that we cracked this thing of the dependence on fossil fuels, with all that being held to ransom by rogue regimes, and so on.

They need to build these institutions such that we are never held to ransom again by a few individuals like Robert Mugabe.

The name was John James, and in those days, if a family member committed a crime, the military would hold you as ransom till your family turned themselves in.

On the Christmas Eve, while buying the Christmas gift for their daughter, the father is kidnapped, and his wife desperately tries to raise a high amount of money to pay the requested ransom.

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