Ransom
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So far this year they have raided more than 50 vessels, stealing cargos and hijacking ships, from private yachts to oil tankers, and extorting some $100 million a year in
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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