(v. t.) To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(2) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
(3) The kidnappings triggered worldwide protests and military assistance from western governments, but 219 girls are still missing.
(4) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
(5) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
(6) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu , has vowed the militant Islamist group Hamas, blamed by Israel for the kidnapping, will "pay a heavy price".
(7) Blindfolding the American hostages, Asgharzadeh later admitted, was their first mistake – it immediately turned an occupying campaign into what looked like deliberate kidnapping.
(8) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
(9) The country’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, was due to visit Chibok for the anniversary, said Yakubu Nkeki, the leader of a support group of parents of the kidnapped girls.
(10) Some Coalition MPs raised concerns earlier this year that transparency could expose wealthy business owners to security risks, including kidnapping , and the government prepared legislation to shield private Australian companies.
(11) We are in a hotel in Mobile, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast where he and Danny Glover are filming an action movie called Tokarev , in which Cage plays a reformed mobster reluctantly returning to his violent roots when his daughter is kidnapped.
(12) He was charged with a range of offences including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, banditry and criminal conspiracy.
(13) I was chained up in a very painful position and had no means to know where I was, or even whether my pregnant wife – who had been kidnapped at the same time – was with me."
(14) And with the cartels come other nightmares: kidnapping, extortion, contract killers and people trafficking.
(15) One of the minors claimed he had remained in the car during the killing and did not know that the kidnapping would end in murder.
(16) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
(17) Syrian TV said a jet crashed due to technical problems • A pro-government Syrian TV station says one of its cameramen who was kidnapped three days ago is believed to be dead while the others are being held by rebels near the capital Damascus.
(18) The Farc negotiators reiterated their insistence that the rebel leader Simon Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year sentence in a US prison after being convicted of kidnapping three Americans, be allowed to participate as a negotiator.
(19) Any application for special mission status is considered on its overall merits and may be accepted or refused on legal or policy grounds.” Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions who is acting for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as the FJP, said: “There is strong evidence [Sisi] is guilty of serious and very public crimes, including the mass shooting of demonstrators, forced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, the organisation of farcical trials involving mass sentences of death.
(20) Alone in his police cell, Yarris read a newspaper article about the rape and murder of Linda May Craig, who had been kidnapped in Delaware near the border of Pennsylvania.
Steal
Definition:
(n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.
(v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
(v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
(v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
(v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
(v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
(v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
(v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined to further clarify the mechanism of this transmural coronary "steal" employing intracoronary DP administration, thereby avoiding systemic hypotension.
(2) In the presence of peripheral vasodilatation, adequate blood flow can be expected after such bypass grafts at blood pressures as low as 80 millimeters of mercury and hypotension per se does not produce vascular steal.
(3) 'We were stealing money from our managers to buy vegetables to be able to survive.
(4) The combination of a carotid-basilar and a vertebro-vertebral collateral circulation was verified directly in a patient with a complete subclavian steal by means of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography.
(5) The second, less common type of steal is associated with isolated atresia of the proximal segment of the subclavian arteries.
(6) Jacoby Ellsbury goes to steal second, and the catcher Molina's throw isn't even close allowing Ellsbury to make it to third base with nobody out.
(7) Garfield has a history of making interesting choices and a knack for using his edgy watchfulness to steal scenes from some of the best actors in the business.
(8) There’s always other things you can do than stealing and that and running around with the same people,” he says.
(9) These chains have been stealing market share from bigger rivals, such as Tesco and Asda during the economic downturn.
(10) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
(11) Roger Kirkby: An infield single for Papi, lol Wait until he steals a base in this series.
(12) No patient developed evidence of an intracerebral steal at the higher arterial carbon dioxide tension.
(13) Chaffin’s sources say that, even as Elon Musk’s electronic car firm Tesla Motors is stealing away record numbers of employees from Apple , the house the Steves built is hiring Tesla employees right back – and specifically, “the kind of people from Tesla with expertise that is most suited to cars”.
(14) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
(15) One possible explanation for the lack of protective effect for isoflurane might be related to its vasodilative properties, which could result in a cerebral vascular steal.
(16) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
(17) Concern over the extent of the News of the World's hacking of the phones of prominent people increased after it was revealed that the name of Brian Paddick , the former deputy assistant commissioner, was found on documents belonging to Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed for stealing secrets from mobile phone voice messages.
(18) Apple accuses Samsung of: • Stealing design ideas, features of iPad and iPhone.
(19) "It was the negligence of Shell which compelled people to steal.
(20) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.