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Sentence count:157+6Posted:2016-07-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: suretySimilar words: a stageat this stagehostghosthostileheritagecottageshortageMeaning: ['hɑstɪdʒ /'hɒs-]  n. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms. 
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61. But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.
62. So, what have I got to show for my time as a hostage?
63. Senior Tories who dismissed the tax guarantee as a hostage to fortune will feel vindicated by Mr Hague's backdown.
64. Later, Cyrus and Poe must stop Johnny from raping a female prison official whom the prisoners have taken hostage.
65. Read in studio A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell.
66. Tanner disapproved of kidnap insurance and companies like D'Arcy's which negotiated for hostage release.
67. In the opinion of most, however customer service and quality remained hostage to the lack of cooperation from the functional heads.
68. Amnesty International opposes abuses by opposition groups - hostage taking, torture and killing of prisoners and other arbitrary killings.
69. Together, Minnig and Cipriani carry the hopes for a peaceful resolution of the hostage crisis here.
70. They are being held hostage with three other peacekeeping officials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government.
71. The other hostage, Roswell, is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs 135 to 140 pounds.
72. Five years ago, the project and the neighborhood were held hostage by a drug dealer named Daryl Whiting.
73. Amongst them walked a gentleman in an expensive greatcoat, his arms firmly held - another hostage.
74. Yet[http://sentencedict.com], the Republican Party is being held hostage by the religious zealots.
75. A British journalist was held hostage for over four years.
76. After the show closed at the Corcoran, the Czarist treasures were held hostage in a tractor-trailer truck.
77. Two families had been taken hostage to force the managers of a bank and supermarket to hand over £96,000.
78. Now, more than ever, the president will be a hostage to his own ethnic minority, the Zaghawa.
79. When they did so last May 500 soldiers were taken hostage by the rebels.
80. Gen. Oscar Florendo, who was being held hostage by the rebels.
81. That Liam Shakespeare was a hostage in a house in Shelley Grove.
82. One hostage had recently been released through their connections; why should the others not be recovered by the same means?
83. Williams had received the George Medal for saving three young children who were taken hostage during a bank robbery.
84. After hostage negotiators heard the gunshot over the phone, police waited about a half hour before entering the home.
85. An impasse in the hostage crisis had been reached, to continue through the summer of 1980.
86. One unconfirmed report said Hamilton had intended to take the children hostage but that his plan went awry.
87. President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis.
88. Recently a Nomura executive suffered the indignity of being taken hostage by a client wielding a samurai sword.
89. But Havel also has preached that the country must not be held hostage to its past.
90. Mrs Rees's daughter Leanne was taken hostage in the house.
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