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I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box.
They were holding something like 700 people hostage.
They'd released a bunch of people, but they still had about 700 people hostage.
So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot, by the hostage takers or by the police forces trying to deal with the situation.
The hostage takers who had been rendered unconscious by the gas were not taken into custody; they were simply shot in the head.
Maybe you think about the tragically boring board games that hold us hostage in Thanksgiving situations.
They picked up his identification, and they phoned his name in to the terrorist war room, where the terrorist war room Googled him, and found a picture and called their operatives on the ground and said, "Your hostage, is he heavyset?
Last year, at this time, there were 20 vessels, 500 mariners held hostage.
And I don't think it should, because a lot of the movie, I don't know if you've seen it, but a lot of the movie takes place in this embassy where men and women are hiding out during the hostage crisis.
His family lost everything, and at age 11, he had to live in motels with his dad, motels that would round up all of their food and keep it hostage until they were able to pay the bill.
Pretty much around the same time, I discovered that there were 544 seafarers being held hostage on ships, often anchored just off the Somali coast in plain sight.
And at that time, there were those 544 seafarers being held hostage, and some of them were held hostage for years because of the nature of shipping and the flag of convenience.
So what I'm asking today is that you envision a world where men and women aren't held hostage to their pasts, where misdeeds and mistakes don't define you for the rest of your life.
Five colleagues had been killed, three had been seriously injured, seven had already been taken hostage.
Remember, we have a hostage situation.
Her daughter's been taken hostage by an android, and of course, she's in a state of shock.
And the one good-for-nothing left standing grips a handgun and aims it straight up, like he's holding Jesus hostage, like he's threatening maybe to blow a hole in the moon.
And for every silent prisoner of shame, it's the fear of judgment that's holding you hostage.
After all, by 2045, we will have held billions of people hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Public policy was being held hostage by stigma and fear, and also held hostage were compassion, care, research, recovery and treatment.
Lucho had been a hostage for two years longer than I had.
I want to explain it like this: Jhon Frank Pinchao was a police officer who had been a hostage for more than eight years.
He was held hostage overnight in the stairwell.
But I also understand that there are three things that always hold us hostage.
In those lonely first weeks and months of my recovery, these strangers and their words became lifelines, dispatches from people of so many different backgrounds, with so many different experiences, all showing me the same thing: you can be held hostage by the worst thing that's ever happened to you and allow it to hijack your remaining days, or you can find a way forward.
Yet we still allow our mind to cycle through one greatest hit after another, like we were being held hostage by our own passive-aggressive Spotify playlist.
They decide to head to the nearest town, Salena several miles away & take the cops with them as hostage.
After being caught cheating along with two of her friends; the three decide to take the teacher that caught them hostage in her own home.
It was supposed to be "an extremely suspenseful tale of a crazed killer holding a woman hostage and in terror in her home."
Not to mention the beginning of a school being taken hostage, due to a boy's breakup with his girlfriend.
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