Twenty-five people were arrested in 2009 over the kidnapping of some 16 wealthy Bulgarians for ransom.
In 2009, 480 people were officially recognised as having been kidnapped for ransom in Pakistan.
If someone disappears and no ransom call comes, should it even be called kidnapping?
In the end, the market should not expect political posturing to hold the currency to ransom.
Some would argue that true glamping means living like royalty while paying a king's ransom.
Is there a risk that this ransom aggravates the problem by rewarding the slave owners?
Yet some believe that Ecuador is holding a priceless piece of the Amazon to ransom.
An attempt to make a ransom drop failed when the kidnappers mistook scoop-hungry reporters for cops.
Cyber-attacks on financial accounts and kidnapping and ransom can be additional concerns for the wealthy.
Not a king's ransom, but it stops us feeling most of the pain of Clean Sweep.
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But worryingly for shippers, ransom demands may have risen as the number of captured ships falls.
Now, you are prepared to pay a king's ransom to keep him from trial.
It is, in effect, a ransom paid by developers to be allowed to put up buildings.
This would, in effect, prevent a small minority of creditors from holding everyone else to ransom.
Others, like Gertha Pressoir, who is married to a Haitian, get out for a relatively modest ransom.
Instructions came to take the ransom on a night train to Mumbai five days after the abduction.
But agreeing a ransom leads to an even bigger headache - getting the money to the pirates.
Instead, I will stop my own support as a few are effectively holding the entire company ransom.
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However, the British Ambassador, Jeremy Thorp, refused to comment on reports that a ransom had been paid.
Late last week, the Hannover newspaper received another ransom note, again with cutout letters forming the words.
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The quartet offered up proof of their identity, including what they said was the original ransom note.
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The United States regards the Abu Sayyaf as terrorists, although its main activity is kidnapping for ransom.
Moreover, far from weakening the small factions that held prime ministers to ransom, it has strengthened them.
Eleven of those ships and 200 crew members are still being held for ransom by rogue Somali pirates.
The idea was to strengthen the prime minister against small parties which often held the leader to ransom.
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His kidnappers have not made any ransom calls nor have the police been able to make a breakthrough.
Mr Sarkozy and others deny that the EU or France paid any ransom money for the medics' release.
Moreover, the scandal this week has not just been the power of strikers to hold the country to ransom.
That is a risk, especially in a kidnapping for ransom by nonstate groups.
"At this time I can say we know of no ransom demand, " Aberdeen Police Chief Henry Trabert told reporters.
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