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Meaning of 胁持

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xié chí (Trad.: 脅持)
to hold under duress
Example Sentences
1
The IMF & World Bank take hostage entire nations.
2
They threatened staff with handguns, and briefly took a woman hostage .
3
Mr Yeung's Eastweek magazine runs a photograph of a nude actress taken during an abduction 12 years ago on its cover.
4
We must not let the extremists, whatever their faith, whatever their political persuasion hijack the discourse and hijack the media.
5
We now have troops in the Philippines, helping to train that country's armed forces to go after terrorist cells that have executed an American, and still hold hostages.