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However, Eddie is trying to escape from prison in a hostage situation, and kills his friend Father Dolan (William Gargan), who was trying to help him.
The action starts when a deceased friend's sister approaches Chappy for help in taking down a Nazi drug lord who is holding her Peruvian village hostage.
Paula and Sergio are married and own the small house in the mountains where they only travel to at weekends and Lillian is Paula's sister,who just happens to be having an affair with Sergio.Sergio is going hunting,Paula is going shopping and Lillian is staying home to sunbathe naked.Lillian puts on the radio and we hear a news report a thief and murderer who has escaped from jail and is on the loose after murdering farmer with a pitchfork.The criminal named Joe Brezy has stolen the car and is hiding near the house.He has buried 300million lira in the house(from the previous robbery).Joe takes the three of them hostage whilst he digs for his loot.When he finally gets his loot he plays Paula,Lillian and Sergio against each other telling Paula about the affair her husband and sister are having."Vacanze
Mark Dacascos stars as Toby Wong, a genetically altered soldier who escapes from the Chinese corporation that built him and is on the run from thugs looking to return him back, also on board is Kadeem Hardison who becomes Dacascos' hostage and partner while top notch martial arts action ensues.
A trio of detestable hoodlums - Steele, Lomax and Billy - beat a man to death, torment a convenience store employee and after arriving at an isolated farmhouse keep a weird girl and her grandfather hostage.
The president crashes his plane accidentally into the prison island and is held hostage by "The Duke of New York".
This episode is low on action but high on drama as Mulder negotiates with Duane Barry in a hostage situation.
Colossus and Guardian link up and after much communication and exchange of data they reach a common ground, with a common language (known only to these two computer) and hold the world hostage.
Dr. Forbin himself is more or less held hostage by Colossus, and tries to work around it by putting dummy warheads in missile silos and overloading the computer with tasks, but alas, nothing seems to get by this super-monster.
Sadly for him he lands right in the middle of Manhattan Island, when an armed unit lands inside the walls they are told that the president has been taken hostage and they must get out of their prison ASAP.
It was really unnecessary to have the whole trapped in the store after hours and then have Connelly and Whaley held hostage.
The Alternate, a story of President's mock-kidnapp that turns into a real hostage situation was aired just recently on nationwide TV here in Czech Rep.
An older pervert holds a missing girl hostage on his boat & counts off the days til he can legally marry her.
Playing Valdez's friend is Diego, (Frank Silvera), in addition there's Tanner's wife, Gay Erin (Susan Clark) who is taken hostage, but ends up anything but.
Necessary policy reforms advocated by a ruling party are often held hostage to the prejudices of its allies.
India has been taken hostage by an extra-constitutional body composed of NGOs, brought together under the National Advisory Council, which is chaired by Gandhi.
Teamwork has repeatedly fallen hostage to turf wars and political bickering.
Likewise, the ECB should have barred banks from the risky CDS market, where they are held hostage to ratings agencies’ decisions about what constitutes a “credit event.”
While the movement has evolved and no longer threatens to hold the economy hostage, it continues to contribute to overall policy paralysis.
In fact, Israel currently enjoys a degree of global influence unprecedented in its history, as a slew of new international challenges give its foreign policy, long held hostage by the single issue of Palestine, significantly more room for maneuver.
As the war in Chechnya was drawing to a close in 2002, hundreds of people in a Moscow theater were taken hostage by terrorists from the North Caucasus.
By providing Japan with a diplomatic carte blanche, the US may find itself hostage to Japanese interests, with the result that Japan becomes part of Asia’s security problem, not part of its solution.
As Fed Vice Chair Don Kohn recently put it, “we should not hold the economy hostage to teach a small segment of the population a lesson.”
Why, then, does the EPP continue to act as Orban’s hostage?
Third, the willingness to hold America’s creditworthiness hostage for domestic political purposes will almost surely accelerate the decline of US influence in global economic governance and management.
From Scotland and Catalonia to the borders of Ukraine, the politics of nationality flared, while Europe’s economy stagnated – hostage to a German inflation phobia that dates back to 1923.
These drawbacks apply to central banks’ forward guidance generally, and are leaving them hostage to fortune.
The PiS’s effort to maximize its power has turned the entire party into a hostage of its most radical elements.
In December 2004, Dokubu’s militias took 75 oil workers hostage and forced Shell to shut down about 10% of the country’s oil supply.
Furthermore, China’s fears that hostile naval forces could hold its economy hostage by interdicting its oil imports have prompted it to build a massive oil reserve, and to plan two strategic energy corridors in southern Asia.
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