| hostage crisis | 34.10 | A hostage crisis? | ||
| hostage situation | 7.97 | The hostage situation is bad. | ||
| hostage drama | 6.52 | Peruvians transfixed by hostage drama. | ||
| hostage taker | 5.60 | The hostage takers became heroes. | ||
| hostage standoff | 4.41 | Lima hostage standoff to be discussed. | ||
| hostage negotiator | 3.55 | Mike Keenan, hostage negotiator. | ||
| hostage release | 3.55 | An hour later, the hostage release began. | ||
| hostage negotiation | 1.78 | Hostage negotiations, almost by definition, are ordeals. | ||
| hostage rescue | 1.45 | Hostage rescue may boost investor confidence. | ||
| hostage taking | 1.32 | It expressed sorrow for the victims of the hostage takings. | ||
| hostage incident | 0.99 | The hostage incident in Adana was the second this week. | ||
| hostage peacekeeper | 0.86 | U.N. officials refuse to say much of anything they may know about the conditions of the hostage peacekeepers. | ||
| hostage ordeal | 0.66 | Neighborhood shaken by hostage ordeal. | ||
| hostage team | 0.66 | On the second day of the standoff, the FBI hostage rescue team arrived. | ||
| hostage episode | 0.53 | The area has been used before for hostage episodes. | ||
| hostage fiasco | 0.53 | After a hostage fiasco in Iran, Carter left to become a good ex-president. | ||
| hostage issue | 0.53 | Karadzic said afterwards that the hostage issue was being worked out with Milosevic. | ||
| hostage operation | 0.46 | The military have said that Kopassus was the core unit in the hostage rescue operation. | ||
| hostage raid | 0.46 | He said the hostage raid showed Chechens how to take the war onto Russian soil. | ||
| hostage seizure | 0.46 | Bombings or hostage seizures have generally threatened no more than a few hundred lives. |