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Перевод: hostage

[существительное]
залог ; заложник

Тезаурус:

1. One Highlander was in a fix regarding his dog: he would not pay the fare for his collie; the official threatened to take him - the dog - as a hostage; Dugald warned him Prince would "grip him" if he dared.
2. NO FANFARE, no TV crews, no government ministers were there to greet former hostage Ali Bourequat when he stepped off the plane in Paris after 19 years in Moroccan jails.
3. Recently a Nomura executive suffered the indignity of being taken hostage by a client wielding a samurai sword.
4. Never having run for public office does not daunt this "can-do" folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage.
5. For instance, adoration of the Friend without - to give, for the moment, a hostage to Yvor Winters - the Poet abasing himself, but retaining instead his own dignity, is expressed more often in poems where Thou forms dominate.
6. Amnesty International opposes abuses by opposition groups - hostage taking, torture and killing of prisoners and other arbitrary killings.
7. TESCO manager James Andrews was forced to hand over 55,000 after being taken hostage with his wife Edna and sons James, 15, and Matthew, 17.
8. And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton's own son, a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture, unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be.
9. I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq.
10. He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born, and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune, the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her.
11. He was willing, if they gave him a suitable hostage to ensure their good faith, to allow Berwick ten more days of siege, whereafter, if they were not relieved by the so-called Regent, they must surrender.
12. But the man the government wants most, Pablo Escobar, is still on the run, holding two prominent journalists hostage.
13. They occupied the pitheads, and even took the government's emissaries hostage, demanding that the Comrade himself come and hear their grievances about changes in their output quotas, wages, and pension rates, as well as about poor housing and worse food.