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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.
I believe that they are a hostage to fortune.
I am well aware that we have given a hostage to fortune.
I shall not give a hostage to fortune by mentioning a figure.
He has given a hostage to fortune by including personal chattels of over £1,000 within the scope of the scheme.
In retrospect, the "bonfire of the quangos" phrase was a hostage to fortune.
That phrase in itself is a massive hostage to fortune in the context of the hard, tough negotiations ahead.
I do not think that these figures give much hostage to fortune in that way.
