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A captive Sumatran rhino is due to give birth in May, raising hopes for the future of the critically endangered species.

Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at a zoo in north-eastern China, raising fears over treatment of captive animals in the country.

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
Terry Waite

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
Patsy Cline

In August 1992, the Georgian government accused Gamsakhurdia's supporters of kidnapping Georgia's interior minister and holding him captive in Abkhazia.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Margaret Fuller

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Ralph Nader

The US military says a video, issued by the Taliban, of a captive soldier in Afghanistan is an affront to his family.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Gore Vidal

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Lakshmi Mittal

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
Jim Dale

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore

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