ransoming

The prospect of significant income from pillage and ransoming prisoners was also important.

Indeed, one key Internet bill to outlaw so-called cybersquatting - the ransoming of .

A question arose pertaining to the ransoming of Roman captives; he referred the matter to the senate.

Douglas served as ambassador to England in 1424, during the ransoming of James I.

From a financial standpoint, fiscal revenues were also generated for both powers through the ransoming of enemy ships in the Mediterranean.

Was it morally repugnant, like ransoming hostages with arms and diverting or skimming government funds?

General Santa Anna was captured, and in ransoming his freedom, he granted Texas its independence.

He became involved in the illicit ransoming of Jews to escape Germany, and the diversion of those funds for personal use.

"Redeeming" in this case literally means "buying back," and the ransoming of war captives from slavery was a common practice in the era.

'An Appendix of the Quarter for the ransoming of Officers .

Thus, in the morning, Admiral Poindexter connected President Reagan and the ransoming of hostages.

The Iran-contra arms crisis involved reckless ransoming of hostages and covertly funding the Nicaraguan rebels.

"Their seizures of persons in high command, and their ransoming of captured cities, were a disgrace to the Roman supremacy."

On 28 August 1559 Cessfurd was appointed one of the commissioners to treat for the ransoming of prisoners taken by the English.

Finally, in this context a form of more regular "re-recruitment" should be mentioned that in practice had some quantitative importance: the ransoming of prisoners of war.

The kidnapping and ransoming of Americans in Latin America threatens those few of us who seek to travel to the countryside of Latin countries.

Arabist S.D. Goitein believes the leadership he displayed during the ransoming of the Crusader captives led to this appointment.

From his point of view, Spock's ransoming of the women backfired badly, making the Vulcan a hero and completely negating his own role in the affair.

Balian and Patriarch Eraclius had offered themselves as hostages for the ransoming of the remaining Frankish citizens, but Saladin had refused.

Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is endangered by a master criminal whose intention is not a simple hijacking and ransoming of the wealthy hostages on board.

While evidence is scant, one has to assume that this support came in recognition of the Order's work in ransoming captives in a war zone that remained quite active.

One, collectively called the Achilleis, comprised the titles Myrmidons, Nereids and Phrygians (alternately, The Ransoming of Hector).

Beneficenza Israelitica, organized in 1683 by the levying of a special tax and intended for the relief of the communal poor as well as for the ransoming of prisoners.

"The World's Ransoming" suggests Maundy Thursday and uses references to the liturgy for that day, including the chant melodies "Pange lingua" and "Ubi caritas."

Indeed, in a Philharmonic program in April he is pairing a new work by James MacMillan, "The World's Ransoming," with Bruckner's Eighth Symphony.