“hostage to”簡單造句，hostage to造句子

LOFTY words are always a hostage to fortune.

Any solution [to Soviet economic malaise], however, is hostage to the crisis of authority, creating a catch-22 stalemate between perestroika and glasnost, between economics and politics: any measure to shore up the economy only fans public anger and reduces the authority of the Government.

These jobs are hostage to the fluctuating credit card debt of local consumers.