hostage

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hostage englannista suomeksi

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  1. Substantiivi

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  3. Verbi

hostage englanniksi

  1. A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.

  2. (quote-book)

  3. A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.

  4. Something that constrains one's actions because it is risk.

  5. One who is compelled by something, especially something that poses a threat; one who is not free to choose their own course of action.

  6. The condition of being held as security or to compel someone else to act or not act in a particular way.

  7. {{quote-text|en|year=1740|author=Thomas Roe|title=The negociations ... in his embassy to the ottoman Porte from the year. 1621-28 inclusive. Now first publ. from the originals|page=376

  8. 1953, New York (State) Court of Appeals, ''New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs'', page 37:

  9. Technically speaking, the Arnold infant was not "kidnapped" at all. Rather was she seized and held in hostage. The defendant "carried" no one away. It is true that for a brief space of time he "detained" the Arnold infant in the garage, but this act, in and of itself, does not constitute "kidnapping" in the legal sense of the word, since, in reality, he was holding her "in hostage"—''as a pledge, or shield, or guarantee of his own safety''. The appellant, who had spent some time in the armed forces, seized the child and "held her in hostage", just as prisoners of war are held in hostage.
  10. 2011 October 25, Douglas W. Allen, ''The Institutional Revolution'', ''Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World'', University of Chicago Press, unpaged:

  11. The concept of “lordship” was deeper and survived longer on the Continent. On every dimension, one could argue, they engaged in less hostage capital. It is not surprising then that their wealth levels did not match those in Britain.
  12. {{quote-text|en|year=2015|author=Sarah Elizabeth Schantz|title=Fig|page=138

  13. To give (someone or something) as a hostage to (someone or something else).

  14. 2003, Shirley Mask Connolly, ''Kashubia to Canada: Crossing on the Agda : an Emigration Story'', page 16, quoting some earlier work:

  15. "''(..) in voting the prolongation of the military budget on a war estimate for a span of three years, contemplates, it is said, a speedy reoccupation of the six departments of France which were hostaged to the Germans at the termination of the war.''"
  16. To hostage|hold (someone or something) hostage, especially in a way that constrains or controls the person or thing held, or in order to exchange for something else.

  17. {{quote-text|en|year=1983|title=Nursing Mirror

  18. {{quote-book|en|year=1987|author=Susan Catherine Crouch|title=Western responses to Tanzanian socialism, 1967-83|publisher=Gower Pub Co|isbn=9780566054556

  19. {{quote-text|en|year=1989|title=Daily Report: East Asia

  20. {{quote-book|en|year=1991|author=Donovan Orman Roberts|title=Stubborn ounces--just scales: with Witness for Peace in Nicaragua : a gringo's reflections, observations, and sermons|publisher=Css Pub Co|isbn=9781556734175

  21. {{quote-book|en|year=1996|author=Arnold Molina Azurin|title=Beyond the Cult of Dissidence in Southern Philippines and Wartorn Zones in the Global Village|isbn=9789717420080

  22. {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Edna O'Brien|title=Country Girl: A Memoir|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=9780316230360

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