Hostage taking is a last ditch effort. A desperate attempt to regain control over one's life.

人质挟持是最后的努力，重新控制自己生活的绝望的努力。

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He could be reinstated in the police - and then be immediately put in prison for life for hostage taking.

他可以恢复警职-然后立即判他劫持人质入狱终生。

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The lawyer says he has cooperated with interrogators, and says his wife and brother-in-law are victims of of "hostage taking."

该律师说，他已经与审讯人员合作，并说他的妻子和妻弟是“劫持人质”的受害者。”

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Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was flown from Africa to New York City, where he was charged Tuesday with five crimes, including piracy and hostage-taking.

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Karadzic is also charged with persecution, extermination and murder as well as taking U.N.peacekeepers hostage and the 44-month long siege of Sarajevo.

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Mr. MAHTANI: Well, Nigeria is the eighth biggest exporter in the world, and after these wave of attacks last week, which included the hostage taking and an explosion on a pipeline that fed a key export terminal, Nigeria had to shut down about 226, 000 barrels per day, that's about 10% of Nigeria's total production, which are still down.

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Plainly, fighting terrorism or hostage-taking in the Sahel is a different sort of intervention.

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They were first seen in the Russian capital at last October's hostage-taking in a Moscow theater.

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