Usage examples of "заложницы" in Russian with translation to English

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В сентябре 2001 года Совет поднял вопрос об Ивонне Ридли, британской журналистке газеты «Санди экспресс», взятой в заложницы в Афганистане, в беседе с послом движения «Талибан» Абдул Саламом Заифом в Исламабаде, Пакистан, и договорился о направлении срочного призыва духовному лидеру «Талибана» мулле Мохаммеду Омару с просьбой о ее безопасном и скорейшем освобождении. In September 2001 JKCHR intervened on behalf of Yvonne Ridley, a British journalist taken hostage in Afghanistan, working for the Sunday Express, with Taliban Ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef in Islamabad, Pakistan and arranged the delivery of a most urgent appeal to Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar pleading for her safe and early release.

Нет, она осталась заложницей в особняке. No, that's held hostage at the townhouse.

Нас должны больше заботить смерть невинной женщины и заложница, понимаешь? We have a dead civilian and a hostage to worry about, okay?

Командная работа неоднократно становилась заложницей борьбы за влияние и политических споров. Teamwork has repeatedly fallen hostage to turf wars and political bickering.

Стратегия развития, в действительности, становится заложницей идеи интеграции в мировую экономику. Development strategy, indeed, is becoming hostage to the idea of integration into the world economy.

Я была заложницей у латышей, меня будили вооружённые самозванцы, чуть не стала жертвой гигантской фабричной машины и почти каждый день я заперта внутри несущегося автомобиля с Мисс Фишер. I have been taken hostage by Latvians, woken by armed intruders, almost fed into a giant factory machine and nearly every day of my life I'm trapped inside a speeding motor car with Miss Fisher.

Однако, если верить наблюдению, предположительно принадлежащему Марку Твену, о том, что «история не повторяется – история рифмуется», Восточной Европе следует помнить о прошлом, но не становиться заложницей своих воспоминаний. But if, as Mark Twain supposedly observed, history rhymes rather than repeating itself, the memory of the past should guide Eastern Europe, not take it hostage.

Но до тех пор, пока они остаются относительно бессильными, Мексика останется неуравновешенной, лишенной современных левых, которые ей нужны для борьбы с бедностью и неравенством, и заложницей тех, кто все еще верит в революцию и штурм Зимнего Дворца. But, as long they remain relatively powerless, Mexico will remain unbalanced, deprived of the modern left that it needs to combat poverty and inequality, and hostage to those who still believe in revolution and the assault on the Winter Palace.

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