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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I hope it will lead also to the end of the scourge of hostage taking and violence in that country,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

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

VOA: special.2009.04.25

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.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

But are you really prepared to tolerate hostage taking by your leadership in order to get what you want?

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However, the report also accused the opposition of hostage taking, torture and the executions of soldiers and others it has captured.

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The reporters' arrest, show trial and subsequent imprisonment (twelve years hard labor) was hostage taking, essentially an act of state terrorism.

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