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Перевод: ransom

[существительное]
выкуп ; искупление;
[глагол]
выкупать; платить выкуп; требовать выкупа; освобождать за выкуп; искупать

Тезаурус:

1. "Far from constituting ransom to achieve the freedom of American hostages," North assured Livingstone over the cooling coffee, "the military goods provided Iran were part of a rapprochement process designed to deliver Iran from the clutches of the Soviet Union and to block the Soviet drive to the Persian Gulf."
2. Occasionally a tax-gathering patrol would seize a man who had sown a catch-crop in the fertile north and in effect hold him to ransom until he paid up: that would be a temporary recognition of force majeure rather than an acceptance of permanent obligation.
3. Another failure, but it is hard not to appreciate the subtlety of the thought behind it: if the cash paid as ransom disintegrates, there is no cash paid as ransom.
4. They alight at Bond Street to hold another innocent train to ransom with abuse and ghastly tunes.
5. The statement would simply say that an exchange had been arranged in conditions of total secrecy, as demanded by the kidnappers, an unspecified ransom had been paid, and that they had broken their word.
6. Ransom paid
7. Welling: Barron; Hone, Horton, Glover, Ransom, Clemmence, White (Burgess, 112), Handford, Booker, Robbins, Reynolds.
8. The tribe is a natural social umbrella assuring security in society: "Because of its traditions it guarantees collectively to its members the payment of ransom and compensation as well as defence and vengeance: in other words, social protection" (HI, "Merits of the tribe").
9. Saddam still held the world to ransom.
10. The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously.
11. Likewise in the case of Lewis's Eve: if she is ransomed by Ransom's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld, a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence, how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength - if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself - where is the justice in the punishment, on another planet, of Eve and her descendants, for something which again was not wholly her responsibility?
12. H. L. Dowbiggin, the Inspector-General of Police, cited one case in Rayigam Korale where twenty-seven buffaloes were stolen from an owner who preferred to pay ransom rather than place the case in the hands of the police.