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Nearly held captive in the South.
Woman: You feel so trapped, when someone kind of leans over and you're sort of held captive there for a minute.
So that was a very captive audience.
Captive breeding will be a major part of bringing back these species.
And once you've caught them, you have this captive audience that you can, with the goal in mind of answering the question, accidentally teach a lot of things to.
Would we see 544 airline pilots held captive in their jumbo jets on a runway for months, or a year?
That's more like the microbiome in a captive primate.
What species of primate do you think is even more divergent from the wild primates than the captive primates?
And when I saw this figure, the hairs raised up on the back of my neck, because one way to think about it is, "Oh, that's interesting, captive monkeys are sort of on their way to becoming like Americans."
Other super common behaviors that you may see, particularly in captive animals, are pacing stereotypies or swaying stereotypies, and actually, humans do this too, and in us, we'll sway, we'll move from side to side.
He said, Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.
But part of this Internet is being held captive by the less noble aspects of our human behavior.
The tallest captive sees three black hats in front of him, so he says "black," telling everyone else he sees an odd number of black hats.
Our access to digital money and our ability to freely transact is being held captive by these gatekeepers.
So I decided to find out and invite 5,000 captive strangers, a few uncomfortable cameras, everybody watching online and their browser history into a place where not even the most intimate of encounters have been ... my throat.
The first thing that got me interested in the sounds of these underwater animals, whose world was so foreign to me, was evidence from captive dolphins that captive dolphins could imitate human sounds.
She always wanted to perform before a "captive audience"?
Here's a hypothetical situation: a group of American soldiers are ambushed and taken captive by the enemy.
His poor wife, played by Mary Ellen Kay, is being held captive by her wacko hubby who has no time for her but threatens to kill her if she leaves him.
75 percent of the movie is made from scenes taken from HERCULES & THE HAUNTED WORLD and HERCULES & THE CAPTIVE WOMEN badly edited together with original scenes that do not add up to anything but a complete rip-off.
Since 1943, when they were taken captive, they suddenly became anti-fascists and peaceful peasants who were forced to Hitler, and personally.
Portraying the cloaked, mustachioed, bloodthirsty leader and his snippy, haughty captive, Sean Connery and Candice Bergen could be acting in two entirely different movies (neither one seems to know how far to carry the camp-elements of their characters and dialogue, and both seem singularly without proper direction).
In "The Squire of Gothos", Kirk and his crew encounter a powerful super-being, who keeps the Captain, "Bones" and a few crewmembers captive for no apparent reason.
The beautiful portrait tells the story of Ben Marshall, (Rupert Grint) a seventeen year old boy being held captive in the heart of his religiously neurotic mother Laura (Laura Linney).
"Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers" begins on the night before Halloween, where Michael brutally murders Jamie Lloyd (who was taken captive by the "Man In Black" in part 5) after she gives birth to his baby.
After being discovered by the First Mate and his henchmen, they were held captive.
The cute little actress who played Billy caught my attention initially and after the 1st 15 minutes I was held captive to my television till the very end.
I usually go out to the local cinema with my husband and feel as if we are held captive to the latest Sequel, or Prequel that Hollywood throws at us.
Nothing better than an android boasting 80's technology and a coming-of-age storyline to pull your thoughts from the depths of your mind front and center to be taken captive by a beautifully lovable cast.
I'll keep this short; thanks to Greg for helping me to put this succinctly: Captivity is about a guy who drugs a girl's drink, imprisons and tortures her, then poses as a captive to have sex with her.
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