(n.) A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(2) Several former hostages, now safely in Europe, say he had spent the past year true to the creed of his new faith.
(3) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
(4) The US and Iran have had no diplomatic relations since 1979, when a group of student protesters seized the US embassy in Tehran and took US officials hostage.
(5) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
(6) Blindfolding the American hostages, Asgharzadeh later admitted, was their first mistake – it immediately turned an occupying campaign into what looked like deliberate kidnapping.
(7) It established a pattern that would hold for the next five years: to call the effort irresponsible, but then – sometimes after giving an actual veto – to sign the bill rather than inviting the obvious attacks that he was holding US troops hostage to his Guantánamo closure pledge.
(8) Zawahiri said: "I tell the captive soldiers of al-Qaida and the Taliban and our female prisoners held in the prisons of the crusaders and their collaborators, we have not forgotten you and in order to free you we have taken hostage the Jewish American Warren Weinstein."
(9) At least two of them have been hostages of Isis whom the US did not mean to kill.
(10) But even more than the state’s failure to rescue the 21 hostages, who were believed to have been taken in separate incidents during December and January, Egyptians are criticising Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for ordering airstrikes on purported Isis hideouts in Libya without a clear plan to evacuate Egyptians living in the country.
(11) The $400m was an arms payment by Iran’s pro-western government in the late 1970s – weapons never delivered when revolution overthrew that government and took Americans hostage in Tehran.
(12) You don’t know at night who is going to be coming in the window.” Until now, US ground forces have largely been restricted to a “training and support” mission for the Iraqi army and a handful of one-off special forces raids to free hostages.
(13) "They had taken some Iranian and Pakistani hostages so we had to separate them from the pirate suspects," said Lieutenant Commander Claus Krum, a veteran of five piracy missions.
(14) At Gölcük naval base, a frigate was reportedly taken over by an unidentified anti-government group and the head of the Turkish fleet was held hostage, a Greek military source told Reuters.
(15) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
(16) The mood did not improve in 1980 when Iran's London embassy was taken over by Iraqi-backed gunmen before the siege was dramatically ended by the SAS hostage rescue.
(17) The only reason they are here is because they are Ukrainian army soldiers,” he said, gesturing at the rooms with the hostages in.
(18) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
(19) So they'll free a few hostages, but continue siege?
(20) Or the story about how Rich was en route from Switzerland to Finland and had to order his jet to reverse course at 20,000ft to avoid being arrested by the FBI at Helsinki airport; or the secret tunnel he built between the 'Dallas building' and the Glashof restaurant opposite so he could slip out to lunch without fear of being assassinated; or the time he was held hostage in Azerbaijan while his captors considered whether or not to sell him to the Russians (who were allegedly pissed off with Rich for nicking their reserves of gold and other precious metals), or the rumours that Rich had slipped in and out of Britain and the US on numerous occasions under false passports.
Surety
Definition:
(n.) The state of being sure; certainty; security.
(n.) That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
(n.) Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.
(n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.
(n.) Hence, a substitute; a hostage.
(n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
(v. t.) To act as surety for.
Example Sentences:
(1) The radio talkshow host, whose syndicated show is the most listened-to talk-radio programme in the US, said Moore and others who provided surety for Assange's return to court on sex charges filed by Swedish prosecutors were "fans of serial rapists".
(2) The Australian journalist Phillip Knightley, said he had also offered £20,000 in surety for Assange, but he had no regrets about putting his money at stake.
(3) However, although the company's loans are not raised by using the property as surety, as mortgages are, the loans are attached to the property to which the improvements are made.
(4) He expressed a surety about how he saw the world and his place in it.
(5) Khan and other supporters of Assange, including film director Ken Loach and publisher Felix Dennis, posted bail totalling £200,000 to Westminster magistrates court, with a further £40,000 as promised sureties, to secure the WikiLeaks' founder's freedom when he first faced extradition proceedings in 2010 .
(6) None of the combinations or arrangements suggested surety.
(7) The federal government’s contribution towards hospitals and schools has to go up.” “The states require a return to surety on health and education.
(8) However before a ball was kicked in 92-93, the FAW requested that the club put up a bond as surety that their floodlights would be erected in time for the beginning of the League Cup competition.
(9) Two broad questions need to be asked: what is the government's role in facilitating application of contemporary nutrition knowledge to public health, and what standard of scientific surety should be the basis for its application?
(10) The unidentified defendant was allowed bail at Canterbury crown court in Kent on Friday but was not freed until Monday because it was not clear whether his bail surety had been paid.
(11) It emerged in the hearing that the DfT had demanded a greater surety from FirstGroup, pushing up the bond from £50m and settling on £200m, although at one point FirstGroup had offered £15m more.
(12) Several high-profile figures have supported Assange since his arrest in December 2010, including the film director Ken Loach and socialite and charity fundraiser Jemima Khan, who each offered £20,000 as surety.
(13) He immediately responded and asked if I would be prepared to come to court in the next hour to act as a surety for Assange.
(14) The decision by the district judge Howard Riddle to remand Assange into custody was made despite the film director Ken Loach, the journalist John Pilger, and the socialite Jemima Khan, offering sureties for him totalling £180,000.
(15) Failing reasonable surety of extirpation, permitting spontaneous healing, if feasible, is the best cours.
(16) "When looking into the eyes of those your government believe have veered from the path of democracy, British prime ministers and foreign secretaries alike will need to be able to speak with conviction and surety," their letter said.
(17) There were more reports on Monday nightof customers badly inconvenienced by the meltdown, including an unnamed man who was granted bail at Canterbury crown court, Kent, on Friday, but had to wait until Monday to be released because the bank computer problems prevented the court from confirming receipt of a surety demanded by the judge in the case.
(18) Restaurant designer Sarah Saunders also pledged £20,000 in surety.
(19) The bail conditions are that security of £200,000 is deposited with the court before Assange is freed, as well as two sureties of £20,000 each from two named people.
(20) Wednesday Trump began Wednesday with his unique combination of self-pity and self-importance, announcing in a speech to the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut : “No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.” But the Senate intelligence committee joined the House oversight committee in asking the acting FBI chief, Andrew McCabe, to hand over any notes or memos from Comey, and wrote to Comey asking him to appear in both open and closed sessions.