Captivity in example sentence

"As to references in the margin to the books and authors from whom you take the aphorisms and sayings you put into your story, it is only contriving to fit in nicely any sentences or scraps of Latin you may happen to have by heart, or at any rate that will not give you much trouble to look up; so as, when you speak of freedom and captivity, to insertNon bene pro toto libertas venditur auro;and then refer in the margin to Horace, or whoever said it; or, if you allude to the power of death, to come in with—Pallida mors Aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, Regumque turres.

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Especially when chimpanzees, and other animals with large brains, are studied in captivity, modern technology is helping us to search for the upper levels of cognition in some of these non-human animals.

They can actually live longer than 60 in captivity, so we've only done 40 years in the wild so far.

When Mandela came out of prison after 27 years of captivity, if he had told his people, "It's time to take up the arms, it's time to fight," he would have been followed.

In his memoirs, "Long Road to Freedom," he wrote that he survived during those years of captivity because he always decided to look upon his oppressor as also being a human being, also being a human being.

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