Synonym: surety. Similar words: a stage, at this stage, host, ghost, hostile, heritage, cottage, shortage. Meaning: ['hɑstɪdʒ /'hɒs-] n. a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.
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91. Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2.
92. Militant prisoners held 24 guards hostage on Friday, as jail unrest spread throughout the country.
93. Rafsanjani's desire to act on the hostage crisis was tied to domestic concerns.
94. We are all held hostage to each other in this nation.
95. No one has thought through what happens when a group of private contractors are killed or taken hostage.
96. The suspect, Myron Bowers, 36, was captured with the help of a man he briefly took hostage.
97. The hostage crisis bore a remarkable similarity to another attack last year.
98. Read in studio A prison librarian who was held hostage in a cell for thirteen hours has been freed.
99. On 26 July 1986 Father Lawrence Jenco was released after being held hostage for 18 months.
100. In 1985, some one took all the Styrofoam coffee cups hostage.
101. Carroll was held hostage for 82 days.
102. A Bocchicchio hostage was gilt - edged insurance.
103. The hostage release could clear the decks for war.
104. He is take hostage by the guerilla.
105. Police identified the hostage as Dieter Hoss.
106. Diouf says the decision amounts to kidnapping Hissene Habre and taking him hostage to sell to Chadian ruler Idriss Deby.
107. The American guided missile frigate,[www.Sentencedict.com] the USS Bainbridge is already at the site about 300 miles off the Somali coast where Captain Richard Phillips is being held hostage on a drifting lifeboat.
108. According to the International Maritime Organization, in the past 12 months, near the Somali coast 67 ships were hijacked, 714 crew members are currently held hostage by pirates.
109. Ryder: What is the going rate for a New York City hostage today?
110. A drama of labor extortion with the heroines memory as hostage.
111. Their blossoming relationship may now be hostage to how bloodily China handles anti-Chinese protests by Tibetans.
112. We also use two theoretical perspectives, the hostage theory and the capability-based view, to model the governance adopted by smaller suppliers in protecting relation-specific investment.
113. There are conflicting reports about the identity of the hostage.
114. Andy Dufresne was his right hand in all of this, his silent partner. The prison library was Andy's hostage to fortune.
115. Wine growers say they've been held hostage to the interests of the cereal and soybean farmers.
116. Manila police said former police officer Rolando Mendoza, upset at having lost his job, held hostage a busload of tourists from Hong Kong on Monday and killed eight of them before being shot dead.
117. Somali pirates holding a British couple hostage said they would be allowed to celebrate Christmas, as the pair set to enter their 9th week in captivity, AFP reported Wednesday.
118. He said Hezbollah started the crisis and is the nation of Lebanon hostage.
119. One hostage died of heat stroke and Algerian commandos rescued 17 others in May.
120. Eight Palestinians, calling themselves the Black September Terrorists, broke into the Munich Olympic Village and took nine Israeli athletes hostage.
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