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- verb Present participle of
ransom .
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Examples
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According to Russian investigators, Savins said he was to be paid 100,000 euros for the job, which he described as ransoming the ship.
Dmitrijs Savins gets 7 years for hijacking Russian cargo ship Arctic Sea 2010
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According to Russian investigators, Savins said he was to be paid 100,000 euros for the job, which he described as ransoming the ship.
Dmitrijs Savins gets 7 years for hijacking Russian cargo ship Arctic Sea Catherine Belton 2010
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And it doesn't seem to be a case of domain name ransoming - they've had it a long time, and they have a product.
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As a true norwegian I reealy like the idea of "ransoming" the whales.
Save Toby! Torill 2005
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"I must admit I don't relish it, nor the idea of ransoming them with guns.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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The group has made a financial windfall by kidnapping and later ransoming citizens of France and the EU.
The Terrorists in Europe's Backyard Avi Jorisch 2011
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This controversial practice involves literally ransoming human beings out of slavery by offering "redeemers," who are not the slave holders but bounty hunter-types supplies of badly needed cattle vaccine in exchange for these redeemers' help in enabling slaves to escape.
Heather Robinson: Racial Component of Conflict in Sudan: "To Them, a Black Person ... is an 'Abid,' which is a Slave;" Human Rights Groups in Sudan Free Slaves Heather Robinson 2011
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Piracy has moved beyond its historical lineage as "sea robbery," encompassing such crimes as insurgency, ransoming, hijacking, and homicide -- sometimes without any pecuniary aim whatsoever.
D.R. Burgess: Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers D.R. Burgess 2011
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The dictionary — I just checked this — defines redemption as the act of setting free or rescuing or ransoming.
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The dictionary — I just checked this — defines redemption as the act of setting free or rescuing or ransoming.
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