1. The kidnappers were demanding a ransom of $250,000.

2. She was kidnapped and held for ransom.

3. They demanded a huge ransom for the return of the little girl whom they had kidnapped.

4. Her kidnapper successfully extorted a ￡175,000 ransom for her release.

5. The government refused to pay the ransom .

6. The kidnappers levied a ransom on the child's parents.

7. They are refusing to pay ransom for her release.

8. He was released on payment of the ransom.

9. There has still been no ransom demand.

10. That diamond necklace must have cost a king's ransom.

11. They have to pay a large ransom.

12. His daughter was kidnapped and held for ransom.

13. Her kidnapper extorted a ￡175,000 ransom for her release.

14. The gang held the racehorse to/for ransom.

15. The kidnappers are demanding a ransom of $1 million.

16. The ransom must proportion the losses we have borne.

17. That painting must be worth a king's ransom.http://

18. The company refused to be held to ransom by the union.

19. If you pay the ransom, you may be signing your son's death warrant.

20. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of ￡40 000 from his family.

21. The government says it is being held to ransom by the actions of terrorist groups.

22. A ransom demand has been made for the kidnapped racehorse.

23. The kidnappers exacted a ransom of 10000 from the family.

24. He paid the terrorist a ransom of 50000 for his kidnapped son.

25. The police caught the terrorist who tried to abduct the girl for ransom.

26. A band of renegades had captured the prince and were holding him to ransom.

27. He has accused the nurses of holding the government to ransom by threatening to strike.

28. Unison and the other unions have the power to hold the Government to ransom.

29. The rich man was asked to pay a high ransom for his daughter who was taken away by criminals.

30. He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom.

1. The kidnappers were demanding a ransom of $250,000.

2. She was kidnapped and held for ransom.

3. They demanded a huge ransom for the return of the little girl whom they had kidnapped.

4. Her kidnapper successfully extorted a ￡175,000 ransom for her release.

5. They have to pay a large ransom.

31. They are holding her prisoner and demanding a large ransom.

32. You are our prisoner now and we won't release you until a ransom is paid.

33. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 10000 for his release.

34. Newley might have told Tolby about the ransom demand.

35. There has been no ransom demand.

36. By his behaviour Yeltsin has held Clinton to ransom.

37. The letters were demanded as ransom.

38. Was the package or packet of ransom money bugged?

39. Because Noddy won't pay the ransom.

40. I made the ransom demands, it said.

41. He's got the ransom money.

42. They are all about kidnapping and about ransom demands.

43. The kidnappers have repeated their demand for ransom.

44. A king's ransom in a leather belt.

45. The double Derby-winner is believed to have been killed after ransom demands were issued.

46. Without some such law the rich could hold the poor to ransom.

47. A pied-piper's trail of opportunity discarded, needless abasement endured, and a grievous ransom paid in blood and treasure.

48. Note from Heron's Liberation Front demanding ransom for return of Gnome.

49. Ransom hoped to be reconciled with his wife and children.

50. What kind of kidnapper would sit down and write a three-page ransom note demanding a paltry $ 118, 000?

51. It wouldn't matter if you'd been promised a king's ransom if you achieved a lucky jump to the scorpion.

52. His wife spent all their savings on paying ransom demands.

53. Then came her horrifying eight-day ordeal, during which Sams wrote to her employers demanding ￡175,000 ransom.

54. It attacks the foundations of a free society, encouraging those with industrial or commercial muscle to hold others to ransom.

55. Police sources revealed earlier that the three-page ransom note had been handwritten on paper from a legal pad found in the home.

56. The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously.

57. Although they said they would demand a ransom of $ 5m for each man, they never did.

58. Sams has pleaded guilty to kidnapping Stephanie, unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding a ￡175,000 ransom.

59. Instead, they continue to maintain their position by holding the world to economic and military ransom.

60. Within hours the kid napper demanded a ransom of ￡175,000 from estate agents Shipways.

61. But emotionally he was pitiful, held to ransom by an appalling wife.

62. Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio has charged that some political parties have financed their activities with ransom money.

63. We are used to evil men demanding a ransom before their victim can be released.

64. If the woman resisted Weston's voice simply out of obedience to Maleldil, then what was the function of Ransom?

65. We know that many among ourselves have given themselves to bondage that they might ransom others.

66. In a phone booth, Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.

67. But there is no way he will be held to ransom over a figure which is totally unrealistic.

68. If Maxwell pays the ransom I don't think there's much hope.

69. What's outrageous is that one powerful and greedy bully, followed by its lackeys, can hold the world to ransom.

70. The case unfolded at about 5 a. m. on Dec. 26 when Patricia Ramsey found the ransom note.

71. Similarly, if one companion were captured, his partner was under an obligation to contribute to his ransom.

72. What gives cheaper fuel campaigners the right to hold the country to ransom?

73. But sometimes I want to be pampered like royalty - without having to pay a king's ransom.

74. His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.

75. After the families of the two men were contacted, the ransom was upped to $ 1 million.

76. Reagan clung to the belief that he was not paying ransom but merely rewarding an intermediary for services rendered.

77. He looked like a son of kings,(http://) one whose parents could pay a great ransom.

78. The countries that control it will be able to hold their clients to ransom.

79. The president said that the company would not be held to ransom by strikes.

80. Store boss James Andrews was warned his sons would be castrated if he did not get the ransom.

81. I read the appeal in the newspapers for Madame V to come forward, but they said nothing about abduction or ransom.

82. Officials often complained that the victim of cattle theft preferred paying the ransom to instituting a court case.

83. Maybe the scarred man had suspected something and wanted a cut of the ransom.

84. What sort of kidnapping was this, with no ransom demand and no parents?

85. Last year the dacoits kidnapped a man and broke both his legs because his family could not afford the ransom.

86. After all, only the Government has the money with which to pay a ransom.

87. Ransom, the name finally arrived at, develops its own significance in the sequels to Out of the Silent Planet.

88. Villagers stole cattle for beef, for a ransom payment, or in some cases for ploughing or local sale.

89. They could buy out national debts, hold governments to ransom, close down whole economies if they wanted to.

90. The unidentified gunmen have demanded a ￡1.2m ransom, he said.

91. The episode had a happy ending: according to Fleutiaux not a shot was fired, nor a ransom paid.

92. The ransom demand was a deeper secret; only a few members of the police force knew of that.

93. A number of foreign businessmen have been kidnapped and held for ransom in Manila.

94. The ransom demand was made by telephone.

95. Her diamond necklace must have cost a king's ransom.

96. The painting was sold for a king's ransom.

97. They levied a ransom on him.

98. His ransom has been effected.

99. Her kidnapper extorted a ￡75,000 ransom for her release.

100. Typewritten ransom note ? kidnapper was organized.

101. They paid a king's ransom for the painting.

102. It also has a history of paying ransom money.

103. All they wanted was the ransom money.

104. SOD . Truffles cost a king's ransom.

105. We'd better arrange the ransom right away.

106. The prime minister said radical action was required because the increasing ability of sea-borne Somali criminals to hijack and ransom ships had become "a complete stain on our world".

107. In 1932, with his wife and several associates, Kelly kidnapped Howard Woolverton, a banker in South Bend, Indiana, demanding $50,000 in ransom.

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108. The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor dearth not reprehension.

109. In one case, when the captain of a slave ship refused to pay a ransom, Roberts set fire to the ship with all of the slaves still inside.

110. A king's ransom would hardly have procured all that my daughters asked for.

111. They didn't seem competent enough to pull off a kidnapping and ransom.

112. Among the show's highlights was the appearance of Ransom Eli Olds' prototype for a new model known as the "runabout."

113. They levied a tax / a fine / a ransom on him.

114. The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor beareth not reprehension.

115. We'll take him home, pay the ransom, and make our getaway.

116. Relations and friends of prominent Nigerians have also been targeted by gangs ransom money.

117. The writer stated that Rastus was in safe hands and would be returned immediately if Mrs ramsay paid a ransom of ￡1000.

118. These bandits aren't after ransom, preferring to kill or maroon crews, pillage ships, and sell the cargo under false papers.

119. Chinese company was holding them to ransom : blockading the plant.

120. The writer stated that Rastus was in safe hands and would be returned immediately if Mrs Ramsay paid a ransom of ￡1,000.

121. Certainly, Ms. Ransom . Do you have an order number?

122. An emerald of that size, unflawed, would be worth a king's ransom.

123. And by their calculations, liability claims, actual damage to the ships or cargo might cost more than the $1 million or $2- or $3 million ransom," he said.

124. Her kidnapper successfully extorted a ￡75,000 ransom for her release.

125. Tired of their ceaseless ransom demands, President Thomas Jefferson builds a navy and goes to war against the pirate states of the Barbary Coast of North Africa.

126. The wealthy Mackle family eventually paid the $500, 000 ransom and Barbara Jane, a 20-year-old college student who had been buried in a box a foot and a half underground, was discovered safe.

127. Amounting to a parallel state, these illicit networks engage in arms trafficking, money laundering, extortion, human smuggling, black-market adoptions, and kidnapping for ransom.

128. He offers to ransom his family with a peace treaty, gold, the hand of his daughter in marriage and all the lands west of the Euphrates River.

129. The hoard may have been ransom, or booty, or a votive thanks.

130. He claims the Dutch governor of Curacao will pay his ransom.

131. The Saudi supertanker seized by Somali pirates in the world's biggest ever hijacking has been freed following a reported ransom payment of $3m.

132. Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies!

133. The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.

134. They took away the boy and held him to ransom.

135. The kidnapper asked for a ransom of fifty thousand dollars.

136. The hijackers released the hostage two days later because they got the ransom money.

137. A bus-load of schoolchildren were held ransom until the gang were given a plane.

138. Last Incan emperor of Peru (525-533). He was captured by the Spaniards, convicted of plotting against Pizarro,(http://) and executed by garrote despite his agreement to a vast ransom.

139. The president has said the United States will never pay ransom for the hostages.

140. Meanwhile, Jinfeng gets Mingzhang's bank book and pays the ransom for him.

141. We present the short story "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story.

142. A spokesman for the ship's owners, Vela International Marine, a subsidiary of the Saudi state oil company, Saudi Aramco, refused to comment on the ship's reported release or any ransom payments.

143. I bought a leg of lamb in the supermarket and it cost a king's ransom.

144. A few days later, the good student returned with the ransom money.

145. Does the fund ransom the essential number day? Charge for trouble number?

146. In fact,Luke excises that part of Mark when he's copying that part of Mark, and he leaves out that ransom passage from Mark because that doesn't fit his Christology.

147. The abductors are demanding millions of Naira as ransom for his release.

148. In Rio, nearly forty people have been held to ransom this year alone.

149. The Somali pirates have hijacked more than a dozen ships and crews, including a Saudi Arabia-owned supertanker laden with crude oil. They want $10 million in ransom for the tanker.

150. There are reports that the owners of the German vessel, the Hansa Stavanger, paid about $2.5 million in ransom, although the company has not confirmed this.

151. A follower of the bandit landlord Ko Tseng-chiang, he kidnaped people for ransom, stole goods and plundered land.

152. Some firms have developed specific insurance products to address piracy - related ransom costs.

153. A King's ransom would hardly have procured all that my other daughters asked for.

154. The owners of a missing cargo ship that disappeared two weeks ago after allegedly being attacked by pirates have received a ransom demand, it was disclosed today.

155. The pirates are currently holding 14 vessels and more than 250 crew members from 25 countries for ransom in pirate-controlled Somali ports, according to the International Maritime Organization.

156. However, Afghan authorities in touch with the Taleban say the militants are also seeking ransom payment.

157. The kidnappers asked for a ransom of fifty thousand dollars.

158. Governments should purge banks that are big enough to hold the system to ransom. Or they should seek to slice through the entanglements, cordoning off the dangerous bits.

159. John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren were called southern fugitive poets, but that identities could be questioned.

160. Who gave himself a ransom for all , to be testified in due time.