hostage

Example Sentences

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Is that right, or could that prove a hostage to fortune?

From BBC

I admire his sense of commitment, but he should not be held hostage by his success.

From MarketWatch

No one should be held hostage to other people’s decisions or half-truths.

From MarketWatch

Canada should build "a domestic defense industrial base so we are never hostage to the decisions of others when it comes to our security," he said.

From Barron's

In 1991, Jackson tried to repeat his Syrian triumph, and visited Iraq on the eve of the Gulf War to plead with Saddam Hussein to release Western hostages.

From BBC