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...We’re being held to ransom — the secretary of state has enough power to release the money but he’s choosing not to do it,” said Catherine, a 35-year-old grammar school teacher, who asked not to give her...
...Much of the action is filmed live (cinematography by Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom), with close-ups played out on a huge screen above the stage....
...Stephen Spender’s novel The Temple is a semi-autobiographical work that draws on a summer spent in Weimar Germany in 1929 with a group of friends who included WH Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Herbert...
...“Then they get here and the classes at Ransom are more difficult,” he says....
...That body was until recently fabled crime writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), whose bestsellers paid for the surrounding pile....
...Most endearingly, it is not treated as art, in part thanks to the museum’s director, Christopher Scoates, who was at art school in the UK in the 1970s and remembers the gigs....
...Directed by Ridley Scott, 2017 Sony We may never know how good Kevin Spacey was as the monstrously frugal J Paul Getty, but it’s hard to imagine anyone playing the part better than Christopher Plummer....
...to remember — was snatched by Italian ransom-seekers in 1973....
...FBI director Christopher Wray said recently his investigators “were unable to access the content of 7,775 devices even though we had the legal authority to do so”....
...“It could even be possible for hackers and cyber criminals to take over a healthcare provider’s entire network of dosage tracker users and hold their lives to ransom for financial and other nefarious gains...
...Christopher Giancarlo, Commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...There were professional ransom negotiators and even professional proxy prisoners, who were paid a small fee to take the place of a prisoner while he went off to fetch his ransom....
...Yet it is worth remembering that, in 1912, their arguments stressed the threat to democracy from a party pledged to break up the UK and holding a weak government to ransom to achieve their aim of irredentist...
...Mr Bailey insisted he had not held Burberry to “ransom” over the job offer....
...I would not like to be Christopher Wool. Even spending an evening with him might be more than I could take....
...But US unions often left the impression that they were using their control of choke-points in the economy – trash collectors, air traffic controllers – to hold the US to ransom....
...In one line, Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, critics of Islam, are described as “sanctimonious British bullies”. Is that his view?...
...Without ransom demands or any motive, the police are at a loss. Could the abducted children still be alive?...
...But Mr Hammond said: “No UK ministers or officials were involved in any discussion about the payment of a ransom. I am not aware of any ransom having been paid or any ransom having been demanded.”...
...The bad news is that Indian Ocean piracy is becoming an ordinary part of the shipping business; The International Maritime Bureau counts 350 attacks so far this year and ransoms now run about $4m an incident...
...This seemed even more clear in that it was followed by Christopher Wheeldon’s Tryst....
...The slow, unhurried pace of Ransom may not appeal to all readers....
...This was the kind of aerial traffic I’d have paid a king’s ransom to see over my own house, and judging by the grins of Michael and Victoria they appreciated just how lucky they were....
...Pitched into hell – masked abductors, a chopped finger, a dictated ransom demand – he must then wait. So must we....
...Christopher Thompson is a freelance journalist...
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