1.   We are all held hostage to each other in this nation.

2.   A series of prominent former government leaders and various other Western political figures visited Iraq during November to seek from Saddam Hussein the release of those held hostage there.

3.   Former Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson was kidnapped by extremist Shiite Muslims and held hostage for seven years in Lebanon.

4.   In recent years, stores have been burglarized, police cars vandalized and blocks of working men and women felt held hostage by the young, often inebriated revelers.

5.   Kidnappings became common, and not just among the rich, with people sometimes held hostage for a few hundred dollars.

6.   This makes him angry, as does his sense that his private life and career remain held hostage in a crime drama with no foreseeable end.

7.   While Major League Baseball is held hostage by acrimonious disagreement, NBA players and owners could have a new labor agreement before the end of the season.

8.   A pair of terrified American missionaries, held hostage by Muslim extremists for six months, said in a videotape aired Monday that they long to rejoin their children.

9.   Anderson, the longest held Western hostage in Lebanon, was freed after nearly seven years.

10.   Both were hit, and Airhart collapsed and was held hostage, Rice said.