Examples of ransom

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The need to pay ransoms could be ruinous since, to raise the cash required, land often had to be sold.
In areas where cattle stealing was highly organized and ransoming common it is likely that the proportion of cases reported was very much smaller.
Finally, and most risky, there was the possibility of ransoms.
When cattle thieves were captured, they were ransomed back for cattle.
Only captives whose kin would not ransom them could be sold without spiritual sanction.
The author of the ransom note blaming park workers for the theft was never found and is beside the point.
Local power brokers may equally be able to hold the government to ransom.
First, the lawyer can legally act as a go-between for the police and the powerful traffickers who paid the ransom.
Similarly, if one companion were captured, his partner was under an obligation to contribute to his ransom.
As the conflict intensifies, the government has resorted to increasingly extreme measures to counteract the rebellion, often by using the population as shield and ransom.
Prisoners taken in local conflicts had been ransomed and only sold when no ransom was forthcoming.
When there was little evidence, a" reward" or ransom of about five rupees was paid for information about the location of the lost animal.
Judging from the value of each ransom payment, usually about five rupees, some stealing networks must have earned thousands of rupees profit annually.
The delivery of the ransom, including the form and denomination in which ransom should be paid, represented the most critical stage of decision-making.
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