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 Translation for 'Kidnapping' from English to Croatian
NOUN   a kidnapping | kidnappings
VERB   to kidnap | kidnapped / kidnaped | kidnapped / kidnaped
kidnapping / kidnaping | kidnaps
SYNO kidnapping | snatch
otmica {f}kidnapping
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Translation for 'Kidnapping' from English to Croatian

kidnapping
otmica {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • The day after his kidnapping, Odell sought to invoke the Federal Kidnapping Act, a new federal statute enacted in 1932 in the wake of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
  • Lamont and Spencer denied any participation in the kidnapping, but their participation was proved when a secret weapons cache in Managua exploded (among the material exposed by the explosion were documents that linked both Lamont and Spencer to the Diniz kidnapping).
  • Under Section 3 of the Kidnapping Act, if found guilty of kidnapping by ransom, Lee, Zhou and Shi would be sentenced to either life imprisonment or the death penalty, with caning optionally to be imposed if the offender receives life imprisonment.
  • Under the Kidnapping Act, several kidnapping offences, notably kidnapping for ransom, dictates life imprisonment as the minimum punishment upon conviction.
  • "The Heineken Kidnapping" (...) is a 2011 Dutch crime film directed by Maarten Treurniet, based on the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken.

  • Political kidnapping has been happening for more than a millennia.
  • Parental kidnapping is the kidnapping of a child, violating a court order.
  • Van Beijnum also wrote the scenarios for "De langste reis" ('the longest travel', 1996), a movie about the kidnapping of businessman Gerrit Jan Heijn, and for "De Heineken Ontvoering" ('The Heineken Kidnapping', 2011), a movie about the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken.
  • On June 22, 2017, Motes was indicted by a Gregg County Grand Jury, and faced first degree felonies in three charges encompassed in two counts for aggravated kidnapping.
  • Many similarities have been drawn between Israel's different response to the kidnapping of Wachsman and to the 2006 kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit.

  • The stereotypical version of kidnapping by a stranger is the classic form of "kidnapping," exemplified by the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the child is detained, transported some distance, held for ransom or with intent to keep the child permanently.
  • Belfer returned to Israel in 2006 to assist her ailing mother. Rottem located her and pressed kidnapping charges. Belfer was arrested and put on trial for kidnapping.
  • "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style" (...) [...] is a 1967 Soviet comedy film dealing with a humorous plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern Caucasus.
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