history: i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
knowledge: 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.
response: Not personally, but I know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement.
history: i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
Not personally, but I know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement.
Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it.
knowledge: However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.
response: Oh, wow! Well, in contemporary usage, a hostage is some seized by a criminal to force someone else to do or not do something.
history: i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
Not personally, but I know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement.
Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it.
Oh, wow! Well, in contemporary usage, a hostage is some seized by a criminal to force someone else to do or not do something.
Yeah, he had a gun so I didn't really want to try to get away. Do you know what's the earliest recorded hostage in history?
knowledge: This long history of political and military use indicates that political authorities or generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostages in the custody of the other side, as guarantee of good faith in the observance of obligations.
response: No, but there is a long history of using hostages in political and military contexts in which an authority would return hostages to the other side in exchange for guarantees of good faith or to observe obligations.
history: i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
Not personally, but I know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement.
Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it.
Oh, wow! Well, in contemporary usage, a hostage is some seized by a criminal to force someone else to do or not do something.
Yeah, he had a gun so I didn't really want to try to get away. Do you know what's the earliest recorded hostage in history?
No, but there is a long history of using hostages in political and military contexts in which an authority would return hostages to the other side in exchange for guarantees of good faith or to observe obligations.
Wow that's interesting. I heard it happens a lot in Somalia.
knowledge: Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.
response: Well, Somalia does have the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.
history: i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
Not personally, but I know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement.
Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it.
Oh, wow! Well, in contemporary usage, a hostage is some seized by a criminal to force someone else to do or not do something.
Yeah, he had a gun so I didn't really want to try to get away. Do you know what's the earliest recorded hostage in history?
No, but there is a long history of using hostages in political and military contexts in which an authority would return hostages to the other side in exchange for guarantees of good faith or to observe obligations.
Wow that's interesting. I heard it happens a lot in Somalia.
Well, Somalia does have the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.
Yes, and they can take whole ships hostage sometimes for very large ransoms.
knowledge: Fishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels.
response: Yeah, well, the fishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels.