Yes, one would like to pay ransom and be done with it all.

Companies taken hostage digitally can suffer catastrophic damage, regardless of whether they pay ransom.

The question of whether to pay ransom is hotly debated.

The government had a strong policy to not pay ransom.

Bishop said that Australia does not, as a matter of policy, pay ransom to kidnappers.

In those barbarous days, all shipwrecked strangers were taken prisoners, and obliged to pay ransom.

All that they could do would be to make you pay ransom for my return.

He'd prefer that she not pay ransom at all.

Shall we not pay ransom and go our ways?

Australia does not pay ransom to kidnappers, as a matter of policy, Bishop said in April.

I gathered that you offered to pay ransom.

But our policy is not to pay ransom.

In Europe, it is not uncommon for governments to pay ransom and offer amnesty to recover kidnapped paintings.

But after all, Owen would gladly pay ransom for me, and that was the one hope I had.

Give my greetings to the King of France and tell him that England will never pay ransom for me.

One of the Anabaptist leaders intervened, however, declaring that the nobles and priests who could pay ransom should be spared.