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Definition of Hostages
1. hostage [n] - See also: hostage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hostages
Literary usage of Hostages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"What Punishment may be Inflicted on hostages. If we admit the right of a belligerent
to take hostages for the purpose of insuring the good behavior and ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"These hostages were to be imprisoned, and, if escape was attempted, ... For every
murdered republican four hostages were to be deported and their goods ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"A new practice of taking hostages was resorted Modern to by the Germans in 1870
during the Franco-German 0/^1°* War for the purpose of securing the safety ..."
4. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Indeed, North told the Attorney General in November 1986 that, with the President, "it
always came back to the hostages." 9 And to be sure, from the very ..."
5. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1892)
"It will be remembered that when Murder ^e Goths were ferried across the Danube
they had of the been compelled to surrender all the youthful sons of hostages ..."
6. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"But, if particular conjunctures oblige > sovereign to abandon the hostages,—if,
for example, :'•>- party who has received them violates his engagements in n ..."
7. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"One of the hostages was brought close to the He blinds East Gate, and his eyes
were put out in the sight of both hostages. armies.4 We shudder at the ..."
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