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Originally used as a means of restraining captives, it became sexualized and spreading across the globe as a kinky form of restraint with a respected and erotic aesthetic.
Didn't the natives even tell Columbus about other tribes raiding and taking captives?"
Some captives took matters into their own hands.
His army was destroyed, and 6000 captives were crucified along the Appian Way– a haunting demonstration of Roman authority.
So for every digital renegade that is revolting in the streets of Tehran, there may as well be two digital captives who are actually rebelling only in the World of Warcraft.
She eventually realizes she is not alone and upon meeting a few of her fellow captives there is different thoughts on survival.
The heavily drugged captives consist of her old boyfriend who raped her, a "grabby" neighbor, and her sexually abrasive boss.
The acting was terrible, and this was first seen when the captives are introduced with their captor one by one (hoods taken off), the remarks and one liners are just terrible, yes I know, bad writing....but this is more than that, it was bad writing coupled with bad acting.
The acting is up to scratch and especially moments when the captives are in the prison and they really are feeling the pain and torture and still managing to resist the urge to stop it.
In this "page from the history and lives of the most bloodthirsty pirates who ever infested the southern seas," the title cards explain, "it was the custom of these pirates to subdue their prey, loot the ship, bind their captives, and blow them up."
A male voice tells him that his mother and sister are captives and will be killed if he (Adam) doesn't cooperate.
They have nails hammered into the skulls of the unfortunate captives.
Jane, Boy and his (evil) relatives wind up as captives of a hostile tribe and Tarzan with Cheetah and the help of most of Africas Elephant population arrive in time to save the day.
I kept comparing this movie with "The Outlaw Josey Wales" since both were replete with Comancheros, captives, and killings.
We are constantly getting the crowd's point of view of all the empire's activities and abuse of its captives and underlings.
Ahmedinejad was supposed to give a major speech to a huge rally in Teheran, which he cancelled at the last moment, and when he did speak, it was to announce that the captives would soon be released.
One answer is that they were the world’s longest-held captives of the so-called middle-income trap – and remain within its reach to this day.
Nor can we afford to become captives of those with the best-paid and most persuasive lobbyists.
In many countries, political dissidents (like the captives in “Fidelio”) are locked up – or worse – in defiance of the clear and open procedures that should ensure the rule of law.
Captain Goldteeth had us brought to a bus terminal next to our residence, where more than 80 other captives were assembled.
If this respite and refuge is gradually narrowed and invaded by the same kind of “products” as those that dominate the mass market, we are condemned to be perpetual captives of the same stunted universe of “practicalities,” the ordinary agglomeration of clichés packaged in advertisements.
Ugly executions of military and other captives have undoubtedly occurred in Mosul, Tikrit, and other cities seized by ISIS.
Undeterred by the still-untested ICTY’s reach, Serb soldiers finally overran Srebrenica itself – despite its status as a “safe area” under UN protection – 15 years ago, on July 11, 1995, and proceeded to expel the town’s people and execute 7,600 captives.
ISIS’s brutality against its female captives was intended to humiliate the enemy and send a warning to anyone who did not adhere to its extremist, radical interpretation of Islam.
Soon, however, the Pentagon's language lost its sharp edge: the problem did not really exist as the captives would be released soon anyway, and were treated well anyway.
We can’t depend on our political leaders to do what is needed, because many of them are captives or promoters of extremist views.
Our shortsighted politicians are captives of their momentary and monetary interests; our journalists prefer scandal to the hard slog of investigation and analysis.
Life under totalitarianism was an extreme situation that requires us to apply special, nuanced rules to all the captives of that ordeal.
For his self-awarded triumph, he rounded up the tallest Gauls he could find, dyed their hair blonde, and taught them to grunt a few words in German so that he would have some impressive captives to display back in Rome.
Following shocking videos of beheadings of American and other captives, Obama decided to intervene in 2014 with air attacks and some US troops to support a Kurdish-led attack on ISIS strongholds.
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