hostage

1 - If the hostages were reasonably safe and reasonably well cared for, why jeopardize our policy and priorities in the Middle East by trying to rescue them by force?

2 - Where the kidnapped businessman has been kept as a hostage for days is not known for the time being.

3 - The President has declared publicly that the government will never pay a ransom to terrorists for the hostages.

4 - The Foreign Secretary has said that Britain would not pay a ransom for the hostages held by pirates off the east African coast.

5 - The suspense over the two remaining hostages ended last night when the police discovered the bullet ridden bodies.