The details of prospective reform were not fleshed out, but the dramatic language used created a hostage to fortune.
Conservative policy ties us again to a single distant and currently erratic friend, and to a technology which is a hostage to fortune.
At present, clause 13 is a hostage to fortune—or to the misfortune of vulnerable young people.
There will be an enormous amount of extra traffic, which is why we are a hostage to fortune.
I think that he is giving one extra hostage to fortune.
Why is one a hostage to fortune and the other not?
To use the word "never" is presenting a tremendous hostage to fortune.
We give a hostage to fortune if we make even half apologies for intervening in the legitimacy of such debates.
