1. "I don‘t see how we‘ll be able to avoid ransoming these soldiers by releasing prisoners.

2. The meager private investment by a number of Afghan expatriates is seriously threatened by ever increasing kidnapping and ransoming of Afghan businessmen and their families.

3. Watch how art thieves operate» Ransoming art to an insurance company through an intermediary adds "up to 10 percent of the market value, which ... given the art market, is quite a lot of money," the dealer said.

4. He faces the prospect of a drawn–out confrontation that could cost many more lives or of making a humiliating climbdown by ransoming the missing soldiers for Arab security prisoners in Israeli jails.

5. The group‘s vocal activism did have an impact on the public, as historian David Wyman shows in his book "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust" (whose Hebrew edition was published by Yad Vashem in 1''3). However, its members‘ unbridled enthusiasm could also unwittingly undermine rescue efforts, such as when their February 1'43 ads announcing secret Romanian feelers to the U.S. on the possibility of ransoming thousands of Jews apparently caused the Romanians to backtrack (in the estimation of some American officials). In general, the evidence does not support Agassi‘s implication that more Bergson–style publicity would have pressured the Nazi regime and thus saved Jews.