Sentences with captive
cap·tive
C c - Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal.
- He described the difficulties of surviving for four months as a captive.
- I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience.
- Company A and Company B relied on their own captive suppliers for the development of this subsystem.
- We all performed action songs, sketches and dances before a captive audience of parents and patrons.
- A captive of love
- It's all a scheme to build a captive audience for his lectures.
- In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home.
- captive water held behind a dam
- A captive nation
- The USA also retains residual regulation concerning captive shippers.
- Fed up with expensive state assigned-risk pools, DDA rented a captive facility instead - and slashed its expenses by half.
- A captive audience
- Consumers who don't know that the agent is a captive, don't know that the advice on the best insurance is likely to be influenced by the fact that the owner of the firm is an insurance company.Owning a captive is a means of arranging for self-insurance, with coverage for very large losses being arranged by the company by means of reinsurance.A captive is an insurance company set up by a commercial company to write the parent company's own insurances and obtain access to the reinsurance market.
- The acquired company has a steel making capacity of 1m tonne, matching mills and associated infrastructure including a captive port.
- Spin some tall tale which would hold their captive audience enthralled.
- When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him. The captive made no resistance […].
- captive chains; captive hours
- Among the new operations is Euro Insurances, a captive company of Lease - Plan Corporation.
- To meet the power requirement of the plant Vedanta will construct a captive power plant with a capacity of 90 mega watt.
- He is the captive of his own fears.
- captive troops.
- Jared's brother gets whacked, and Jared finds himself a prisoner, inexplicably held captive in a jail cell.
- Through wire mesh, I watch the captive flocks pace out their confinement.
- captive animals.
- Her captive beau.
- The Western Plains Zoo is now a leading centre for conservation of large mammals from all over the world as well as running captive breeding programs for Australian native birds and animals.
- A captive wild animal can only show us the loneliness, fear and boredom they experience for the entirety of their miserable lives.
- A captive shop; a captive mine.
- The multinational firms included those with large captive business process outsourcing centres serving parent firms abroad.
- He said PAWS objects to circuses keeping wild and exotic animals captive for entertainment.
- However, instead of just setting up a massive captive development centre, it wants software developers to use its platform to come out with applications.
- She was taken captive early in the plans of imprisonment.
- It's an opportunity for box holders to thank a captive audience for their loyalty, as well as fostering goodwill, generating new business and cementing working relationships.
- Extended interswitching is intended to give captive shippers viable alternatives for rail transport.
- The option to captive offshoring is to outsource to a third party vendor abroad, something that is seen as being more cost effective and in some ways more painless.
- The company has made no secret of its intention to work with broadcasters and advertisers, and to market products directly to its 400,000-strong captive audience.
- The captive soldiers planned their escape.
- Non-stop advertising to a captive audience is a marketing heaven and is exactly what our private rail networks plan to introduce very soon.
- Company leaders note there are independent dairy processors as well as captive dairies Dean Foods is interested in purchasing.
- Her eyes had grown to a soft gray, and there was a spark there that hadn't been ignited in the whole year she'd been captive in the prison.
- Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
- We need to have more than just captive populations.