Examples of hostage crisis in a Sentence
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During the Iran hostage crisis that followed, Patrick’s mother returned to Iran and was stuck.
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Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
Families embroiled in the most recent hostage crisis — Israeli-Americans held by the militant group Hamas in Gaza — met Wednesday with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and with national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
—Camilla Schick, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024
The latest death toll officially marks the attack as one of the worst terrorist acts in Russia’s modern history, surpassing the casualty number of the hostage crisis at Moscow’s Dubrovka Theater in 2002, where 130 people died.
—NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
Israel’s war is broadly popular in the country, but there are still strong divisions over the Cabinet’s handling of the hostage crisis, and thousands gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to call for fresh elections as Netanyahu’s popularity continues to plummet.
—Josh Feldman, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
But there are strong divisions over the Cabinet’s handling of the hostage crisis, amid growing concerns that the hostages are incidental to the government’s wider war aims.
—NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
On this day in 1981, the hostage crisis ended, but that wasn't the end of the story - or the suffering - for the hostages and their families.
—Barry Petersen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
With the president confined to the White House because of the hostage crisis, Mrs. Carter took to the campaign trail.
—Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
But his handling of the war and the hostage crisis has cost him politically and come at a time when the country was dangerously polarized.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
Families embroiled in the most recent hostage crisis — Israeli-Americans held by the militant group Hamas in Gaza — met Wednesday with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and with national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
—Camilla Schick, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024
The latest death toll officially marks the attack as one of the worst terrorist acts in Russia’s modern history, surpassing the casualty number of the hostage crisis at Moscow’s Dubrovka Theater in 2002, where 130 people died.
—NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
Israel’s war is broadly popular in the country, but there are still strong divisions over the Cabinet’s handling of the hostage crisis, and thousands gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to call for fresh elections as Netanyahu’s popularity continues to plummet.
—Josh Feldman, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
But there are strong divisions over the Cabinet’s handling of the hostage crisis, amid growing concerns that the hostages are incidental to the government’s wider war aims.
—NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
On this day in 1981, the hostage crisis ended, but that wasn't the end of the story - or the suffering - for the hostages and their families.
—Barry Petersen, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
With the president confined to the White House because of the hostage crisis, Mrs. Carter took to the campaign trail.
—Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
But his handling of the war and the hostage crisis has cost him politically and come at a time when the country was dangerously polarized.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
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