hostage definition
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Hostage Police often train to recover hostages taken by force, as in this exercise. A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war.
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Hostage A person who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host. Terrorism Definitions
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Prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or missing-captured) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase is dated 1660.uring World War I, about 8 million men surrendered and were held in POW camps until the war ended. All nations pledged to follow the Hague rules on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and in general the POWs had a much higher survival rate than their peers who were not captured.
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- Robbery is the taking or attempting to take something of value from another person by use of force, threats or intimidation. It is committed in the presence of the victim. Robbery is commonly known as a holdup or a stickup (i.e. bank robbery or mugging). Robbery is usually divided into different ‘degrees’.
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Iran hostage crisis Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981 after a group of Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
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emergency An emergency is a situation demanding immediate action: A power failure created an emergency in transportation. A crisis is a vital or decisive turning point in a condition or state of affairs, and everything depends on the outcome of it: Help arrived when affairs had reached a crisis.
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- In the case of Group I there is one valence electron. In lithium this single valence electron is found in the second level, in sodium the single valence electron is located in the third level. The third level is higher in energy AND further away from the nucleus. Therefore a sodium atom is larger than a lithium atom.
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captive cap•tive. 1. a prisoner. 2. a person who is enslaved or dominated: a captive of one's own fears. 3. made or held prisoner, esp. in war. 4. kept in confinement or restraint: captive animals. 5. enslaved by love, beauty, etc.; captivated. 6. unable to avoid listening or attending to something: a captive audience.
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Apush Chapter 42 Iranian Hostage Crisis. Carter's and America's bed of nails captured Americans languished in cruel captivity; American nightly television news cast showed scenes of Iranians burning the American flag; Carter tried to apply economic sanctions and the pressure of world opinion against Iranians.
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- : someone who has captured a person and is keeping that person as a prisoner. someone who has captured a person and is keeping that person as a prisoner.
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Prisoners' Rights Prisoners and Detainees. A prisoner is anyone who is deprived of personal liberty against his or her will following conviction of a crime. Although not afforded all the privileges of a free citizen, a prisoner is assured certain minimal rights by the U.S. Constitution and the moral standards of the community. Detainees are individuals who are kept in jail even though they have not yet been convicted of a crime.
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Iran hostage crisis negotiations Iran hostage crisis negotiations. The Iran hostage crisis negotiations were negotiations in 1980 and 1981 between the United States Government and the Iranian Government to end the Iranian hostage crisis. The 52 American hostages, seized from the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, were finally released on 20 January 1981. 1 Negotiations.
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- blackmail. 1  Blackmail refers to a situation that arises when a person threatens another person with some form of punishment if they do not offer some form of concessions. Blackmail is usually the result of one person somehow obtaining embarassing information about another and threatening to disclose it unless some form of payment (money or favors) is offered.
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Hostages  (Israeli TV series) Hostages (Israeli TV series) Hostages (Hebrew: בני ערובה; Bnei Aruba) is an Israeli drama television series that was first broadcast on Channel 10 in October 2013. The series was created by Rotem Shamir and Omri Givon and produced by Chaim Sharir.
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November 4, 1979: The Iran Hostage Crisis The latest crisis in U.S.–Iranian relations was sparked by five former American hostages who identified the newly elected Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as one of their captors. The Iranian denials did not diminish the anger of the hostages and their demands for justice and recompense. The revival of the dramas of 1979 reveals that the hostage crisis is hardly a stale historic episode; its images and emotions continue to shape the collective conscious of the American public.
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- 5. refugee. A person displaced in some way by the 'free market' (civil war, lack of jobs, occupation, unfortunate enough to be born near oil etc) who is refused entry into the countries that benefit from the destruction of their homeland. Palestinian. Iraqi.
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rescue Rescue definition, to free or deliver from confinement, violence, danger, or evil. See more.
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Hostage Standoff at Yerevan Police Building in Armenia Enters 2nd Day MOSCOW — Militants who attacked a police building in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, killing one person, remained holed up with a number of hostages for a second day on Monday, demanding that the government resign and that it release an opposition leader.
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- All those under arrest will be held as hostages, and the slightest attempt at counter-revolutionary action in the town will result in the summary execution of the hostages. — 1  Announcement in the local newspaper by Boshevik War Commissar Filipp Goloshchyokin, in overall charge of the family's incarceration in Ekaterinburg.
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- Nov. 4, 1979. Fifty-two American citizens were taken hostage when militant students of radical Islam stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.[1] Shortly thereafter, U.S. President Jimmy Carter ordered a complete embargo of Iranian oil; stronger economic embargoes followed.
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- captivity. noun cap·tiv·i·ty \kap-ˈti-və-tē\. Tweet. : the state of being kept in a place (such as a prison or a cage) and not being able to leave or be free: the state or condition of being captive.
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Kidnapping Overview of U.S. Kidnapping Laws. Under federal and state law, kidnapping is commonly defined as the taking of a person from one place to another against his or her will, or the confining of a person to a controlled space. Some kidnapping laws require that the taking or confining be for an unlawful purpose, such as extortion or the facilitation of a crime.
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- In psychology, a term that refers to a person's patterns of response to stress. Some patterns of coping may lower a person's risk of developing Stockholm syndrome in a hostage situation.
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crisis crisis. (krī′sĭs). n. pl. cri·ses (-sēz). 1. A crucial or decisive point or situation, especially a difficult or unstable situation involving an impending change.
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- The provision of drug therapy by a medical provider to a patient is a complex process. Errors can. occur at any step along the way, from prescribing to the ultimate provision of the drug to the. patient. Common causes of medication error include incorrect diagnosis, prescribing errors, dose.
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refugee Define refugee: one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution — refugee in a sentence one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution…