Consider yourselves hostages.

Their governments saw themselves as Qaddafi s hostages.

How long must we be prisoners of that historical experience?

Remain closed, and they will find themselves hostage to the forces of intolerance that threaten the regime.

TOKYO Diplomatic relationships in East Asia have long been held hostage by history.

Russia expresses regret for those lost in the hostage incident.

Leaders, more often than not, are hostage to the socio political environment that produces them, rather than its shapers.

A correspondent of FACTS visited the border and talked to truck drivers who ended up hostages of the situation.

Necessary policy reforms advocated by a ruling party are often held hostage to the prejudices of its allies.

These pirates currently hold more than a dozen ships hostage in Somali ports.

MADRID Too frequently, leaders become hostages, rather than shapers, of their sociopolitical environment.

And though thoughtful Russians may be hostages to Putin s arrogance and blunders, the rest of the world is not.

Europeans must take a good hard look at themselves if they are to avoid falling back into the clutches of fear, hatred, and appalling politics.

As I see it, from Party Central media to local police stations, all of them have learned to manipulate their hostages and put on puppet shows.

Seizure of a Russian military base in order to acquire weapons is, indeed, likely to become a vital goal of extremists. But, in a way, the Russian soldiers there are already hostages not least to the Kremlin s bankrupt foreign policy.

But, in a way, the Russian soldiers there are already hostages not least to the Kremlin s bankrupt foreign policy.

All of the members of the Uruguay and Hong Kong Olympic teams, which also shared the building with the Israelis, were released unharmed during the crisis.

Zimbabwe s upcoming elections, scheduled for March 29, offer both fear and hope to the millions trapped in or trying to escape the country s hellish conditions.

Sadly, this worst case scenario is hardly entertained by American officials, who now seem to be prisoners of their own rhetoric.

For them, what is at stake is the principle that sovereign countries have the right to chart their own course, rather than be entangled in a larger power s sphere of influence.

As for Lubanga, he is one of many in the Congo who has used civilians as pawns in a war that has cost more than five million lives in the past decade.

While unlikely anytime soon, this possibility should give everyone pause and spur us to find policies that will help Arabs find the political dignity and good governance they deserve through an ordered, peaceful process. The alternative is a world in which we remain hostage to the region s pathologies, which provide ample opportunity for Al Qaeda to reassert its narrative and influence.

The alternative is a world in which we remain hostage to the region s pathologies, which provide ample opportunity for Al Qaeda to reassert its narrative and influence.

Likewise, the ECB should have barred banks from the risky CDS market, where they are held hostage to ratings agencies decisions about what constitutes a credit event.

The fact becomes a political message of the polls in 2014 instead of yielding to the conservative religious base, the political forces of the left (if they still exist) must assert all possible rights of minorities.

On 20 June, because we are all hostages, we will demonstrate our solidarity with the political prisoners and claim our liberation , as it was promised 40 years ago!

They, too, used flawed models and had flawed incentives too many didn t understand the role of regulation and too many became captured by those they were supposed to be regulating.

Here, too, the formulation of new ideas and hypotheses quite often takes place at a far remove from the authority of experts, because experts, like business managers, often become prisoners of their specializations and backgrounds.

Americans have been suspicious of Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent hostage crisis, in which Iranian students held 52 Americans at the US embassy for 444 days.

Even for a Japanese public that still generally supports their country's post war pacifism, the hostage crisis was unsettling, not least because it highlighted Japan's military impotence.

The bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.

Mainstream conservatives, widely perceived as being in thrall to the economic interests of the wealthy, must find ways to appear populist but without sounding too much like their far right competitors on immigration and human rights.