hostage

Or what third world nation's crops to take financially hostage?

"My business isn't working that well" is not a good excuse to hold your subscribers hostage.

An armed hostage taker being taken out by a sniper, for example.

Many of us are held hostage by geography-- maybe you own a home, maybe you have kids in a school they're flourishing in, maybe your parents need help.

At this point I wanted to bail out but there was no "Cancel Reservation" button anywhere and they had my CC info hostage.

I love OS X, despite its ever-increasing flaws, and that makes me feel like a hostage experiencing Stockholm syndrome.

Alternatively he could just hold their paychecks hostage like Paypal does with everyone else's money.

I don't want to do that to a startup, but they are holding my patient data hostage in their system and refusing to respond to the demand letter.

I'm pitched by recruiters about once a week, and they're all for far away positions - typically SF area, but other areas too. I can't sell my house any time soon - the market just isn't moving - so I'm somewhat held hostage by geography.

Comcast can essentially hold all parties hostage; they can demand payments from every party: end users, Level 3, and Level 3's customers.

Of course, holding everyone hostage hurts everyone, including their own customers; however, since their customers have no other options, they aren't really in danger of losing them.

Hard not to enjoy the schadenfreude of a company begging developers to support web standards after holding the entire web hostage for years due to outright cynical negligence.

Public health care was achieved in Saskatchewan not by hostage-taking, bombing, or shooting anyone, but by persistent demonstration and political participation.

Plane cockpits are all but impenetrable[1] - the only reason that some of the 9/11 hijackers were successful was that the standard protocol for dealing with hijackers assumed that hijackers wanted to take the plane hostage for ransom, not use the plane as a weapon.