Kidnapping Sentence Examples

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  • Our major success was our first kidnapping for ransom.

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  • We can't go back to the kidnapping or the recovery.

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  • It was now more than seventy-two hours after the kidnapping.

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  • The use of this writ in most if not all criminal cases was forbidden in 1553; but it was used in the 17th century in a case of kidnapping (Designy's case, 1682), and against Lord Grey for abducting his wife's sister (1682), and in the earl of Banbury's case to recover his wife (1704).

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  • Kidnapping, involuntary resurrection—these were not the foundations on which trust was built!

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  • It was no longer kidnapping.

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  • This kidnapping of Mattioli, however, was no secret, and it was openly discussed in La Prudenza trionfante di Casale (Cologne, 1682), where it was stated that Mattioli was masked when he was arrested.

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  • His blatant disregard for the laws regarding his imprisonment and assumed kidnapping of a dhjan guest would see him ordered before the Council, if not hurl him into a war he could ill afford.

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  • Howie, now able to usually remain with a vehicle, stayed with the car to a suburban ranch style house only six miles from the kidnapping.

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  • Saying that might go further toward getting him to forget the kidnapping and murder and going on with his life.

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  • Vince knows something's up - and one kidnapping, some grand theft auto and a blazing gun battle later - it's sorted.

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  • In the countryside gangs of them roam wild inflicting terrible depredations, kidnapping, burning, looting, holding whole villages to ransom.

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  • The main target of a police manhunt is now Amjad Faruqi, who Pakistani police believe carried out Pearl's kidnapping.

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  • A conspiracy, planned with the object, among others, of kidnapping the emperor while on a visit to Venice and forcing him to make concessions, was postponed in consequence of the coup detat by which Louis Napoleon became emperor of the French (1852); but a chance discovery led to a large number of arrests, and the state trials at Mantua, conducted in the most shamelessly inquisitorial manner, resulted in five death sentences, including that of the priest Tazzoli, and many of imprisonment for long terms. Even this did not convince Mazzini of the hopelessness of such attempts, for he was out of touch with Italian public opinion, and he greatly weakened his influence by favoring a crack-brained outbreak at Milan on the 6th of February 1853, which was easily quelled, numbers of the insurgents being executed or imprisoned.

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  • Kidnapping the rich businessman who they had seen splurging money in a dance bar seemed like the best plan.

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  • In a case of "Do as I say and not what I do," the Chapmans fled Mexico after posting bail when they were originally arrested for the kidnapping.

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  • Amber's body was found four days later in a drainage ditch approximately four miles from where the kidnapping took place.

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  • That A'Ran guy sounded pretty convincing about kidnapping her.

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  • A still more striking contrast is the passionate outburst of sympathy and indignation with which, in the same diary, he comments on the supposed kidnapping of Luther by foul play on his return from the diet of Worms. Without being one of those who in his city took an avowed part against the old ecclesiastical system, and probably without seeing clearly whither the religious ferment of the time was tending - without, that is, being properly speaking a Reformer - Diirer in his art and his thoughts was the incarnation of those qualities of the German character and conscience which resulted in the Reformation; and, personally, with the fathers of the Reformation he lived in the warmest sympathy.

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  • In 1587 Perrot conceived a plan for kidnapping Hugh Roe (Hugh the Red), now a youth of fifteen, who had already given proof of exceptional manliness and sagacity.

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  • The term came into prominence in 1884-1885 in connexion with the scandals arising over the kidnapping of South Sea islanders for enforced labour on the sugar plantations of north Queensland.

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  • By his preaching at Bristol Wulfstan is said to have put an end to the kidnapping of English men and women and selling them as slaves.

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  • The kidnapping was particularly egregious so we broke our self-imposed rule against staying away from case where precise times are not known.

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  • However, Betsy noticed a California kidnapping that bore an uncanny resemblance to the Delaware, and later Alabama abductions, where a deputy sheriff was killed.

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  • She had nothing to say to the man, unless it was to condemn him for kidnapping her, wedding her against her will, and dropping her like a sack of potatoes for his sisters to retrain.

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  • The traders engaged in the nefarious traffic in Kanaka labour for Fiji and Queensland had taken to personating missionaries in order to facilitate their kidnapping; Patteson was mistaken for one of these and killed.

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  • The principal grounds for an absolute divorce are impotency, adultery, wilful or malicious desertion, cruel and barbarous treatment, personal abuse and conviction of any such crime as arson, burglary, embezzlement, forgery, kidnapping, larceny, murder, perjury or assault with intent to kill.

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  • Patteson was murdered in 1871, a victim of the mistrust engendered in the natives by kidnapping traders.

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  • The word plagium is used in the Digest of the offence of kidnapping or abduction, and the ultimate source is probably to be found in plaga, net, snare, trap, cognate with Gr.

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  • Chapman and his crew are allegedly being extradited to Mexico on kidnapping charges, where bounty hunting is illegal.

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  • Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, and the capture was considered a kidnapping.

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  • All this harassing didn't stop Carlsen from meeting with George again a few months later, and that's where the kidnapping charge comes in.

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  • In 2007, O.J. Simpson was charged with robbery, kidnapping, coercion and conspiracy.

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  • She not only furthered her career, but also escaped the unrest in her native Colombia after her older brother was murdered in 1998 during a kidnapping attempt.

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  • This is done through the issuance of an urgent news bulletin informing the public of the kidnapping.

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  • Started as a result of the kidnapping and murder of Amber Hagerman in 1996, the emergency notification system has evolved from a city-wide system in Dallas, Texas, to a national system throughout the United States.

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  • Set to the tune of a cheesy action movie, you must rescue a kidnapping victim using a variety of guns and your skills with the katana.

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  • Bowser is the leader of the Koopa race (named Koopa Troopas), a turtle-like people charged with kidnapping Princess Peach so Bowser can take over the Mushroom Kingdom.

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  • Unfortunately for them, some crazy bunny-like creatures -- known as rabbids... and they're raving -- come and crash the party, kidnapping all the globoxes and Rayman himself.

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  • Her kidnapping is only the beginning of a long tale spun around the ancient legends of a world on the sea.

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  • The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act has helped establish consistency in the treatment of custody decisions and helped solve problems created by kidnapping or disagreements over custody between parents living in different states.

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  • Aggravated sexual abuse-When an individual is forced to submit to sexual acts by use of physical force; threats of death, injury, or kidnapping; or substances that render that individual unconscious or impaired.

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  • Since late 2006, two kidnapping victims have died.

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  • The FBI is involved in crimes like terrorism, cyber crime, organized crime, kidnapping, inter-state crime and crimes that violate federal law.

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  • Go in on that day and tell your mate you are kidnapping him or her for the day.

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  • In order to prevent his boss, Louis, from going to jail, he is assigned the task of kidnapping one of the younger siblings of the lead prosecutor on Louis' case.

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  • His son David carried on his father's legacy by terrorizing various characters, kidnapping Lily's baby and making Julia his accomplice as well as contributing to her eventual insanity.

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  • Jill often felt remorse for the part she played in Katherine's subsequent kidnapping.

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  • In season two, Sookie struggles with Bill's newly made daughter, an attack by a vicious creature, a near kidnapping and work for the local vampire sheriff Eric that takes her to Dallas.

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  • From there, the plot intensifies to include kidnapping; the murder of a priest; steamy sex; and a host of other twists, turns, conflicts and intrigue that will keep you glued to your seat.

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  • Franklin's obsession with Tara resulted in his attacking her twice, kidnapping her and stealing her away to Mississippi where he threatened to turn her.

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  • The character was portrayed in a series of flashbacks, until she re-emerged in a kidnapping case that led to the elderly Colleen being played by an older actress.

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  • The local police think it's tied into the kidnapping he 'solved'.

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  • It seems the whole kidnapping was a sham.

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  • Usually we rely on Betsy's sole decision as a method of choosing a case but the wide spread interest in this kidnapping caused her to share it with all of us.

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  • He hardly knows the woman and you heard what Martha said; she still holds a grudge over what she perceived as Howie's carelessness that caused her daughter's kidnapping and death.

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  • But we're not sure it was a kidnapping exactly.

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  • He was kidnapping her, taking her far away to a place Evelyn would never find her.

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  • He mentioned the term kidnapping, but of course being the saint he is he wouldn't press charges against his wife who according to him was just temporarily disturbed.

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  • The death penalty was freely awarded for theft and other crimes regarded as coming under that head; for theft involving entrance of palace or temple treasury, for illegal purchase from minor or slave, for selling stolen goods or receiving the same, for common theft in the open (in default of multiple restoration) or receiving the same, for false claim to goods, for kidnapping, for assisting or harbouring fugitive slaves, for detaining or appropriating same, for brigandage, for fraudulent sale of drink, for disorderly conduct of tavern, for delegation of personal service, for misappropriating the levy, for oppression of feudal holders, for causing death of a householder by bad building.

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  • The kidnapping of natives for the South American and Australian labour markets was common.

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  • Slaveraiding continued ceaselessly; by 1446 the Portuguese had carried off nearly a thousand captives from the newly surveyed coasts; but between this time and the voyages of Cadamosto in 1455-1456, the prince altered his policy, forbade the kidnapping of the natives (which had brought about fierce reprisals, causing the death of Nuno Tristam in 1446, and of other pioneers in 1445, 1448, &c.), and endeavoured to promote their peaceful intercourse with his men.

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  • The crime was eerily reminiscent of the Delaware kidnapping case where Howie was unsuccessful.

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  • Kidnapping, involuntary resurrection—these were not the foundations on which trust was built!

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  • The Deans knew they couldn't simply keep Martha without reporting her arrival to the Midwest authorities that were searching for the girl as a kidnapping victim, and her mother as a fleeing fugitive.

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