Ransom in example sentence

Likewise, in his election manifesto, Sirisena warns: “The land that the White Man took over by means of military strength is now being obtained by foreigners by paying ransom to a handful of persons… If this trend continues for another six years, our country would become a colony and we would become slaves.”

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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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