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But ongoing hostility, disrespect and holding hostage are not a winning strategy.
The children Lindsey is holding hostage range in age from 1 to 12.
The Foundation currently has $0003 million remaining which the NYAG has been holding hostage for political gain.
Orlando authorities say the man who shot a police officer has killed four children he was holding hostage Monday.
" The spokesperson also said that the foundation "currently has $1.7 million remaining, which the NYAG has been holding hostage for political gain.
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday led a national tribute to Beltrame, who swapped places with a woman Lakdim had been holding hostage.
It's well past time to end the practice of holding hostage millions of workers and taxpayers as a strategy for achieving political ends.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of holding hostage Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon's prime minister on Nov.
The Haqqanis also are holding hostage Coleman's Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, 33, and another American University of Afghanistan teacher, Timothy Weeks, an Australian citizen.
Ms. Shalala called the decision "tragic" as she left the floor, accusing Mr. Roy of "holding hostage thousands of people" who needed the aid.
So their nation doesn&apost really need to keep adding to that world of hurt by holding hostage and wrongfully imprisoning a United States citizen.
RADDATZ: And — and what would you do in those cities, where there are people who we are trying to help, who ISIS is essentially holding hostage?
Administration officials are making a profound mistake in trying to advance the goal of engaging China on strategic nuclear arms by holding hostage the extension of New START.
They should be directed toward preventing abuses of an otherwise valuable tool, rather than denuding the tool itself or holding hostage the  reauthorization of its highly effective powers.
"The man on the phone identified himself as one of the leaders of the armed group who confirmed holding hostage" the priest and others, Bishop de la Peña said.
It was a targeted campaign to pressure a foreign government to interfere with an American election on Mr. Trump's behalf — apparently by holding hostage nearly $400 million in military aid.
A spokeswoman for the Orlando Police Department said Tuesday that the medical examiner, as part of an investigation, will determine when Gary Lindsey shot the four children he was holding hostage.
Furthermore, Chinese officials are effectively holding hostage relatives of Uighurs who are abroad to force them to return to China to be detained or silence them about the human rights abuses.
The police chief of Orlando, Florida, is urging a gunman who shot a police officer to release four children he is holding hostage and peacefully end a standoff that has lasted more than 12 hours.
"If Iran wants to reduce tensions and engage with the United States government, it should make a humanitarian gesture such as releasing one of the innocent American citizens it is holding hostage," the spokesman said.
The final piece is a 12" x 12" collage that features a printout of Kate Upton lounging like a lion, either guarding or holding hostage Ma and Pa in a Walker Evans Depression-era photograph.
"If Iran wants to reduce tensions and engage with the United States government, it should make a humanitarian gesture such as releasing one of the innocent American citizens it is holding hostage," the spokesman told Reuters.
In a previous statement, a representative for the Trump Foundation described the New York attorney general's lawsuit as "politics at its very worst" and said the attorney general has been "holding hostage" the foundation's remaining assets.
McConnell accused Democrats of holding hostage various federal priorities, including a six-year extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), in order to gain leverage over what he called a "non-imminent problem" of immigration.
Lebanon's president on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of holding hostage prime minister Saad al-Hariri along with his family - the first time he has explicitly said he was being held - and called this an act of aggression.
Faced with criticism from the right-wing coalition of the Freedom Caucus and Fox News commentators, President Trump decided to legislate by holding hostage the federal government — and the citizens who depend on it and work for it.
But the morning would end with the robbers making off with about £252 million (worth more than £2000 million today) after ambushing and holding hostage four other guards who came to work, ready for a quiet holiday shift.
The president's tweets appeared after White House budget director Mick Mulvaney accused Democrats of "holding hostage national security" by opposing $1.5 billion to help build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Trump's top campaign pledges.
Or at least, that's what I thought, because postpartum depression takes every last shred of self-confidence and chucks it into the bottomless pit that is also holding hostage the spirit, courage, and rational thinking you haven't seen for a while.
And he will share his perspective about the dangers posed by Congressional Republicans' stated strategy to repeal the ACA before proposing any replacement, creating chaos in the health system in the short run -- and holding hostage Americans' health care -- while Republicans develop their plan.
"Sadly, HBO is holding hostage underprivileged families from having access to timely first-run episodes of perhaps the single most educational children's franchise in the history of electronic media," Tim Winter, the president of the Parents Television Council, said in a statement on Thursday.
Authorities in Los Angeles released dramatic body cam video on Tuesday of a shooting in June that killed a knife-wielding man and a woman he was holding hostage – the first of two incidents this summer where a bystander was killed as police tried to stop an attacker.
WASHINGTON — After the Islamic State declared that Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old humanitarian worker from Arizona it was holding hostage, was killed in an airstrike in Syria in 20183, her parents became increasingly frustrated with the government's slow hunt for answers about her death and turned to a former F.B.I. agent for help.
I believe the US should ask Kim to free the Americans that North Korea is still holding hostage, and then ask him to surrender five nuclear weapons to an independent third party, most likely France (the nonproliferation treaty requires the surrender be done to one of the five nuclear weapons states: the US, Great Britain, France, China, or Russia).
READ MORE: In Case You Missed It, a Bunch of Cities Passed Soda Taxes in November Commenting on the layoff situation, one city official told the Associated Press that Pepsi is "literally holding hostage the jobs of hardworking people in their battle to overturn the tax," pointing out that Pepsi made billions in profit last year and saying that the company continues to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on efforts to overturn the tax.
Arnold convinced Hon-Yost to spread rumors that large numbers of Americans, under the command of "The Dark Eagle", were about to descend on St. Leger's camp.Pancake (1977), p. 145 Hon-Yost's good conduct was assured by holding hostage his brother, who was also among the arrested.Nickerson (1967), p.
The Melanoma Research Alliance supported the bill. In a video produced by the group, a melanoma survivor said that "when I heard that there were actually ingredients that the FDA is basically holding hostage, it infuriates me, it's crazy." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2010 over 60,000 Americans were diagnosed with melanoma. The most common form of cancer in the United States is skin cancer.
Afghanistan: Who Instigated The Pol-e Charkhi Prison Riot And Why? On 16 March 2008, after a two-week dispute over arrests following an attempted jail-break, inmates rioted and took over sections of the building. Gunfire was heard in the complex and inmates claimed to be holding hostage two members of the Afghan National Army (ANA). The hostage-takers threatened to kill the ANA members unless mediators were sent in to resolve the conflict.
The knocked-out man falls to the ground. The fortuneteller, still defiant, tells The Kraken not to produce his blade or else she will drop the green crystal ball, which she claims holds the life of the girl she is holding hostage. She claims that if it drops the girl will die. The Kraken throws his knife at the fortune teller's shoulder and she drops the crystal ball, which shatters on the ground.
He was sentenced to 13 to 40 years in prison in July 2008.Fifth Person Pleads Guilty in Megan Williams Case Danny Combs will serve 20 years for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault, assault during the commission of a felony, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping or holding hostage in September 2008.Megan Williams Torture Case Is Over As of October 21, 2009, Williams recanted her story saying none of the abuse or kidnapping took place.
A struggle ensues and Phoenix escapes with the Tooth, though not before the group badly injures his right arm. Cyrus and Antigone rescue their mother, who Phoenix had also been holding hostage, and Dan, whom Phoenix had brought to Ashtown as bargaining chips. Phoenix has operated on Dan and made him a larger, "upgraded" version of himself. In an epilogue, it is revealed that Phoenix has completely lost his right arm and also holds the body of Cyrus and Antigone's father.
While at Fort Dayton, a number of Loyalists had been arrested, including Hon Yost Schuyler. Arnold convinced Hon Yost, a member of the King's Royal Regiment of New York who grew up with many of the Mohawk Indians attacking Fort Stanwix,Watt (2002)p. 224, 258 to spread rumors that large numbers of Americans, under the command of "The Dark Eagle", were about to descend on St. Leger's camp. Hon Yost's good conduct was assured by holding hostage his brother.
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at approximately 8:30 a.m., Los Angeles Police received a 911 call of a man with a gun attempting to take a hostage inside the Mexican Consulate at 2401 W. 6th Street. Rampart Division Patrol Officers responded, and while setting up a perimeter saw a male suspect leave the building with a woman he was holding hostage. The suspect was holding her tightly from behind, with his arm around her neck and was armed with what appeared to be a handgun.
Disenchanted with magical shortcuts, Jorian seeks advice from the holy man Shenderu atop Mount Aravia; the sage practically counsels bribery. The return from the mountain is complicated by an encounter with a party of Xylarian guardsmen seeking to recapture the ex-king. Jorian - warned in time by the arrival of Margalit, who heard of the Xylarians' pursuit - staves off the attempt by capturing and holding hostage their leader, the Xylarian judge Grallon. Grallon - having a deserved reputation for complete honesty and integrity - afterwards proves useful by settling the legal dispute between Jorian and Abacarus.
However, although Cunningham had decided on firm military action, he chose not to have the two Irgun fighters under sentences of death executed given the Irgun threat to kill the British officers it was holding hostage if the British carried out the executions. On July 3, he commuted the sentences of Yosef Simchon and Michael Ashbel to life imprisonment, and the Irgun released its remaining British hostages the following day. The King David Hotel following the explosion The documents seized from the Jewish Agency were stored at the King David Hotel.
Mercurio forces a Ruu'lto named Pik Rollo, whose child he is holding hostage, to try and assassinate Agent Venom, but Rollo instead betrays Mercurio, and joins forces with Venom. When the two lay siege to Mercurio's headquarters, he incapacitates and imprisons them, and separates the Venom symbiote from Flash Thompson. Sensing the symbiote's suppressed bloodlust, Mercurio attempts to convince it to join him, but it instead frees and returns to Thompson. The reformed Agent Venom and his allies proceed to dismantle Mercurio's forces, but Mercurio himself escapes, and swears vengeance on both the symbiote and Thompson.
Agent Venom as Venom Space Knight foils the Gramosian's attempts to steal resources from the home planets of the P'qui and the Wugin, and to acquire chemical weapons derived from the blood of kidnapped Vvexians. Mercurio forces a Ruu'lto named Pik Rollo, whose child he is holding hostage, to try and assassinate Agent Venom, but Rollo instead betrays Mercurio, and joins forces with Venom. When the two lay siege to Mercurio's headquarters, he incapacitates and imprisons them, and separates the Venom symbiote from Flash Thompson. Sensing the symbiote's suppressed bloodlust, Mercurio attempts to convince it to join him, but it instead frees and returns to Thompson.
Defense Secretary McNamara sought to limit damage to the U.S. by developing a separate strategy for offense and defense. The offensive strategy was one of Counterforce, seeking to destroy Soviet military installations and hardware and thus disable this hardware before it could be used. In a 1962 speech to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, McNamara announced that the U.S. would refrain from striking countervalue targets (cities) early in nuclear war, reserving such force later in war should the Soviets not show similar restraint. This would not only induce the Soviets to spare American cities, but would secure the United States bargaining advantage by holding hostage something that the Soviets might want to keep.
Shaw reveals that Cipher had hired his brother Owen to steal the Nightshade device and Mose Jakande to steal God's Eye, Ramsey's software program. The team tracks Dom and Cipher to their very location just as the latter two attack the base, causing injuries to the team, and stealing God's Eye. Roman suggests bringing Brian in to help them, but Letty rejects the idea as they agreed not to bring him and Mia into any more missions for the sake of their children. When Dom questions Cipher's motives, she reveals that she has been holding hostage Dom's ex-lover and DSS agent Elena Neves—as well as their son, of whose existence Dom was previously unaware.
Later, Flack is instrumental in the safe resolution of a crisis when he and another officer successfully rescue the infant daughter of an angry and upset young deaf man holding hostage the baby and his dead girlfriend's mother. While Mac Taylor distracts the man on one side of the car, Flack and the other officer sneak up on the other side and take the child out through the window, whereupon Taylor is able to safely disarm the man. Flack then returns the baby to the care of her relieved maternal grandparents (episode 3.12, "Silent Night"). When the aforementioned arrest of Flack's colleague, Truby, results in the release of a serial killer, Flack berates Mac, who angrily counters that they both want the man back behind bars.
Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis refers to the kidnapping, holding hostage and murder of Brazilian 15-year-old girl Eloá Cristina Pimentel in October 13, 2008; this crime, and the shooting of Pimentel's friend Nayara Silva were both committed by Eloá's ex-boyfriend Lindemberg Alves. The incident received major media exposure not only because of the shootings, but also because of the mistakes made by the police of São Paulo. Eloá Pimentel was held as a hostage for 100 hours – the longest kidnapping ever registered in the state of São Paulo.Mais longo caso de cárcere privado em SP completa 3 dias; negociações prosseguem – Folha de S. Paulo The trial of Alves started on February 13, 2012, exactly three years and four months after the crime.
These harmful chemicals are the most serious concern to surface and ground water in the Monterrey metro area §k§l§6Hola=D. A water shortage in the late 1970s forced rationing on 750,000 people, most of whom were poor and already experienced low access to water. Forced water rationing spawned water protests that escalated to larger organized mass rallies, blockades, seizure of water service trucks, taking over of government buildings, and the holding hostage of water delivery drivers. Most of these actions were led by poor women and resulted in presidential action with the creation of the "Water for Everyone" (Agua para Todos) program that ushered in a new era of government spending that promised to bring water to every resident by 1985.
The earliest record of Ottone dates to 1179, when he subscribed with his younger brother, Enrico (II), to the charter of their father, Enrico Guercio, whereby the commune of Savona was granted fiscal and judicial independence. In 1181, the brothers again subscribed their father's chater, this time granting the commune of Noli the right to hold a market and to fortify itself, in return for the commune's recognition of the marquis's suzerainty, including the right to fodder and the ban. The same year (1181), Ottone, still a minor, witnessed the treaty between Manfred II of Saluzzo, his relative, and the commune of Alba. As a result of this agreement, Manfred released some merchants of Alba whom he had been holding hostage.
The city stated the program had created 251 jobs, mostly full-time pre-K teaching positions and said the soda industry was "holding hostage the jobs of hard-working people in their battle to overturn the tax. Pepsi reported nearly $35 billion in gross income and $6 billion in profit last year.... The idea that they can afford to do that but 'must lay off workers' should make every Philadelphian very skeptical of whether these layoffs are actually due to the tax." The layoffs would occur at plants in Philadelphia and Wilmington which are run as independent businesses.Pepsi to lay off 80 to 100, blames soda tax , Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1, 2017 In May 2019, the University of Pennsylvania released a study describing the aftermath of the soda tax, two years later.
When Ryoko is ordered by the Guild to have Seina assassinated, she strongly objects and later uses an arranged escape by Seiryo as a distraction to cover her rescue of the families of Ryoko's crew that Shank was holding hostage. She becomes Seiryo's second-in-command when he joins the Daluma Guild and is given command of the Unko (a name she desperately tries to keep him from announcing out loud, since it translates as "excrement"), and tries to provide some sense of stability (since Seiryo as a pirate captain is, to put it mildly, somewhat unstable). She accompanies him when he goes to face Seina in a one-on-one duel, but asks Seina privately to just play along with Seiryo. After Fuku and the Kamidake are taken by rogue Galaxy Army personnel, she provides information that aids Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko and Neiju in locating them and Seina (who has gone in pursuit on his own).

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