0 a person who is held prisoner in order to ensure that the captor’s demands etc will be carried out -- ตัวประกัน
There is no question but that the taking of the hostages is totally deplorable.
As far as concerns the structural funds, some of the major beneficiaries have already staked out an intransigent position and hostages have been taken.
In that same prison there were some women kept as hostages until their husbands, who were under threat of arrest, gave themselves up.
I do that because we have made ourselves hostages to liquid fuel in the internal combustion age.
He has given some hostages to fortune to the north, and made some promises that it will be difficult to deliver.
We have a right to expect unions to settle purely domestic differences of this kind without making hostages of the rest of us.
We have made and continue to make use of every opportunity to persue the release of the hostages.
We follow up every lead in the search for news of our hostages.
