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Meanings of pay ransom in English

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Usage of pay ransom in English
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Yes, one would like to pay ransom and be done with it all.
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
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Companies taken hostage digitally can suffer catastrophic damage, regardless of whether they pay ransom.
Reuters
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The question of whether to pay ransom is hotly debated.
Reuters
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The government had a strong policy to not pay ransom.
Radio NZ
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Bishop said that Australia does not, as a matter of policy, pay ransom to kidnappers.
Reuters
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In those barbarous days, all shipwrecked strangers were taken prisoners, and obliged to pay ransom.
A Child's History of England
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All that they could do would be to make you pay ransom for my return.
At Agincourt
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He'd prefer that she not pay ransom at all.
Colorado abduction
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Shall we not pay ransom and go our ways?
The Well at the World's End: A Tale
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Australia does not pay ransom to kidnappers, as a matter of policy, Bishop said in April.
Reuters
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I gathered that you offered to pay ransom.
The Light of the Western Stars
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But our policy is not to pay ransom.
Reuters
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In Europe, it is not uncommon for governments to pay ransom and offer amnesty to recover kidnapped paintings.
Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen tr...
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But after all, Owen would gladly pay ransom for me, and that was the one hope I had.
A Prince of Cornwall / A Story of Glastonbury and the West in th...
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Give my greetings to the King of France and tell him that England will never pay ransom for me.
Sir Nigel
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One of the Anabaptist leaders intervened, however, declaring that the nobles and priests who could pay ransom should be spared.
Parisian Points of View
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