1.   A band of human rights activists stormed the embassy and took several people hostage.

2.   Everyone turns against Danny so quickly that he feels his only recourse is to take the chief investigator and several other people hostage within the city administration high-rise.

3.   For a few hours, police said, Troy held three people hostage inside a house, but let them go early in the afternoon.

4.   In Fiji, rebels have been holding the prime minister and about three dozen other people hostage for three weeks.

5.   In essence, they have held their own people hostage, playing on the sympathies of aid organizations for the refugees.

6.   Never mind that airports and airlines are the ones taking people hostage, millions a day.

7.   Now, Iraq can rightly be regarded as holding its own people hostage to press for an end to the sanctions.

8.   Saddam elected to spend that money on himself and his cronies, holding the welfare of his own people hostage to his ambitions.

9.   Several robbers took at least seven people hostage inside a Staples store on Long Island Wednesday night after a robbery attempt went awry, the police said.

10.   Several robbers were holding at least seven people hostage inside a Staples store on Long Island Thursday morning after a robbery attempt went awry, the police said.