Ransom in example sentence

When the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines flight to Dhaka Airport in Bangladesh in 1977, Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda not only paid the $6 million ransom; he also resorted to the “extralegal measure” of handing over imprisoned members of the faction.

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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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