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How can we protect our own young people in service when we threaten to kill a captive's children, beat him, stave him, water board him and not allow him to sleep for days.
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It is hell, and through the power struggle it depicts, it inherently intoxicates us with both the captor's sense of absolute power and the captive's will to ultimately escape.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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Last year, Bowe Bergdahl's mother, Jani Bergdahl, attended an elementary school ceremony after students wrote President Barack Obama urging him to help bring about the captive's release.
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It is hell, and through the power struggle it depicts, it inherently intoxicates us with both the captor's sense of absolute power and the captive's will to ultimately escape.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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Zyperis smiled, knowing full well the direction and content of his captive's thoughts.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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Too, the captive's body, even concealed within the confines of the sack, did not suggest the form of the male.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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Hugh came down from the castle next morning with a request to borrow Brother Cadfael on his captive's behalf, for it seemed the boy had a raw gash in his thigh, ripped against a stone in the flood, and had gone to some pains to conceal it from the nuns.
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Could it be that he sensed his own coercions weakening, and now was ensuring his captive's compliance with more physical and tangible means?
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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This despite the fact that these tortures †"including the threat to kill a captive's children â€" have been known for years, reported in the mainstream media and in several books by well-regard writers with highly respectable publishing houses.
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We're now getting confirmation of things that we journalists were hearing rumors of earlier: faked executions using blanks, faked executions in neighboring rooms, followed by threats of the same to a person who had just heard the screams and a shot in the cell next to him, threats with an electric drill, and now perhaps the worst yet -- the threat to kill a captive's children.
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