| The weapon of torture was the chemical Oleoresin Capsicum, known as pepper spray, swabbed into their eyes with a Q-tip. |
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| But there's a major difference between believing in demonic possession and using torture and beatings to exorcize children. |
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| Many had died from nearly three years of neglect, hunger, disease, and torture at the hands of the Japanese. |
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| The American also conceded the match on the last green to save his opponent's torture being prolonged. |
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| Similarly, Article 1 of the 1984 Convention on Torture prohibits torture when it is among other things intentionally inflicted. |
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| The Attorney-General says any confession extracted using torture would not be admissible in an Australian court. |
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| The writer insists he knew nothing about the unjust imprisonment and torture practiced by the Party. |
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| But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees. |
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| The insurgency has led police to abuse detainees, using torture as punishment or to extract confessions, the report said. |
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| When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, torture and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit. |
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| The eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges undertaken by the United Nations. |
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| The event simply has had no closure, partly because for 40 years mention of it was forbidden, on pain of torture and jail. |
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| Its officers wrote out false confessions and used torture to force suspects to sign them. |
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| The following is my testimony of the greater humiliation and torture suffered by my fellow inmates. |
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| This tiny fraction of those who suffer torture still numbers many thousands each year. |
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| Nothing short of physical torture and mental agony awaits, and it's all self-inflicted. |
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| The fight against those who torture animals in the name of science has moved up a step and we must be ready to take our struggle forward. |
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| If we can help and inspire other people to see that you don't have to torture people, you don't have to have oppressive regimes. |
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| The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me. |
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| Tear down the walls of self-consciousness in your mind, rip to shreds all the self-defeating messages you torture yourself with all the time. |
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| Had she been so jumpy and frightened in the empty black school that her mind invented the noise as a way to torture her even more? |
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| Further back there were booths where one could be alone and torture the mind with alcohol. |
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| Here in the dark, they torture me, these silent shrill voices echoing in my mind, will they haunt me forever? |
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| And instead I had to go to balls and other stupid events Czar Nikolai makes up to mentally torture us. |
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| So why do we still torture ourselves with constant obsessing about weight and appearance and dress sizes? |
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| She didn't know why, but she wanted Haley to take her in his arms and heal the pain and send away the agony and torture she internally suffered. |
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| I had my car back, so there wouldn't be any long, silent, bus rides to torture my mind with. |
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| How come we are subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment? |
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| The new law explicitly states that people should not be subject to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. |
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| She curled into a ball, shuddering as her imagination began conjuring the torture methods that she had heard rumors of. |
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| The torture situation is an external conflict, a conflict between the subject and his tormentor. |
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| But it is also clear that the use of torture was brutalising individual soldiers, as had so often happened in history. |
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| Overcoming fear of torture and death, he became a British spy and infiltrated their camp. |
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| Elizabeth I's ministers had to employ spies and even use torture to gain information about threats to her life. |
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| The chief prosecutor said he had seen no sign of torture in his visits with the defendants. |
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| With his wheezing voice and affinity for using his lecture wand as a torture instrument, any midnight Sabbath sounded better. |
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| Incidentally, the waterboard in these photos wasn't merely one among many torture devices highlighted at the prison museum. |
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| Under the argument above, either incarceration is torture or waterboarding is not. |
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| Although we likely won't know the whole story for some time, the use of torture like waterboarding has yielded important results too. |
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| As far as I can tell you are attempting to redefine torture to exclude waterboarding and sleep deprivation. |
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| The present pose of horror adopted by media and government officials with regard to revelations of torture by the military is a sordid farce. |
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| The Romans designed the act of crucifixion to slowly execute a person through torture while humiliating him. |
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| Videotapes taken by the US military at Guantanamo Bay provide new evidence of torture of detainees at the US prison camp. |
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| You tend to think negatively and torture yourself endlessly by imagining the worst and procrastinating about major decisions and changes today. |
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| After all, torture victims are the best possible advertisement for terrorist recruitment. |
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| The special rapporteur is also trying to investigate allegations of torture, but is being stalled by authorities. |
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| The rebels systematically practiced torture in order to extort money, punish non-cooperation, and intimidate others, the special rapporteur said. |
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| Most of the resulting civilian detentions, torture and deaths are covered up. |
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| I managed quite well and could've gone on longer only I had other infernal machines of torture to subject my poor, aged body to. |
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| Perhaps he just hasn't the strength of will to hold out, as one might be unable to withstand torture. |
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| The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives. |
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| Among those victims of kidnap, torture and murder were my own uncle, cousin and brother. |
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| The Northern Rebellion was put down with liberal use of torture, hanging and decapitation. |
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| Other criminal cases which showed an increase in 2000 included homicide, juvenile delinquency, torture and arson. |
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| Here was a repeat of the French-Algerian War, which inevitably led to torture and crimes by both the French and the Algerian guerrillas. |
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| The Trial Chamber heard testimony from about 30 witnesses who survived the brutality, and who reported the frequent killings and torture. |
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| His powerful muscles bunched, tensing up and readying themselves to deliver a payload of suffering and torture. |
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| As if being bored to death wasn't enough, Cassandra now had to withstand emotional torture, complete with mind-altering drugs. |
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| Those caught and forcibly repatriated are subject to brutal treatment, including torture, placement in work camps and even execution. |
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| Taxes were extorted by torture, for which the notorious Egyptian kurbash, a whip with five lashes made of rhinoceros hide, was used. |
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| The prisons' management has presumed guilt over innocence and allowed torture and abuse on a grand scale. |
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| If I'm witnessing torture and inhumanity on a grand scale, the answer is no. |
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| The deaths and torture scenes are rather grisly when you consider the era in which this movie came out. |
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| As Verheugen rightly warned, implementation of new laws on Kurdish language rights and on torture has been slow and patchy. |
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| As an innocent man, his own government consented to his arbitrary detention and torture by a foreign power. |
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| It seemed he would never escape the relentless torture of being forced to choose a bride. |
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| The saddle no longer looked like an interesting historical relic but an instrument of torture. |
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| They should certainly do so, stressing not only the moral repugnancy of torture but also its ineffectiveness. |
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| Throughout the invasion and occupation there has been torture, dawn raids and shootings of civilians. |
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| If this were true, then the lieutenant would be free to disregard the laws of war and to torture the civilian. |
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| It would demonstrate American capabilities to the armed punks who rape, torture and murder the unarmed and helpless on a daily basis. |
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| The Church would torture and kill because the Devil roamed the Earth, and possessed the unfaithful. |
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| Human-rights activists have protested against measures that would allow Britain to deport suspects to countries where they could face torture. |
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| However, the new memo ignored the question of the constitutional authority of the president to authorize torture. |
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| In my mind, since the Spanish Inquisition, water-boarding has been torture. |
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| What if the secret services denounced someone based upon information extracted under torture? |
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| This kind of torture, and God help anyone trying to minimize it, doesn't work and is just wrong. |
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| His snake occupies the adjacent bathing machine, an Edwardian contraption resembling something out of a torture chamber. |
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| These officials should be instructed that they have the right and duty to refuse to obey any order to participate in torture. |
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| The other mutineers, after torture with thumbscrews, were whipped and had ashes, salt and pepper rubbed into their wounds. |
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| The use of torture to elicit information is not beyond the realm of possibility. |
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| But the bill does not definitively bar statements obtained under torture or other abuse. |
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| What does appal me is when overfed and bored domestic cats torture and kill birds for pleasure. |
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| The tales of rape, humiliation, physical and mental torture pour out until you want to cover your eyes and stop your ears. |
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| And since he had just saved her from Billy's annual torture of meat at the barbecue, he was obviously nice and a gentleman. |
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| Perhaps my interpretive skills are flagging, but can someone point out the reference to torture here? |
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| You torture yourself endlessly by thinking negatively and imagining the worst today. |
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| The insurgents represent the remnants of a regime of torture and repression. |
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| It's worth the odorous torture because the need to travel runs through your veins. |
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| The legislation is limited to lawsuits against persons who ordered, abetted, or assisted in the torture. |
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| Though physical torture and capital punishment were opposed in all cases, no overt political position was to be taken. |
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| For example, when does aggressive and somewhat intimidatory interrogation of a suspect become torture? |
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| Cornelius was put to the torture and on August 19 sentenced to deprivation of his offices and banishment. |
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| Then we can all look forward to the simple torture of penalties and golden goals. |
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| If his captives were using torture to keep him subdued, he would be too proud to let her know. |
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| The revelation of gruesome forms of torture is puzzling in part because the Moche developed a vibrant and highly advanced culture. |
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| Ever since the reality TV phenomenon has taken over the world of television, slouching on the couch with a tub of ice-cream has become a torture. |
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| But weeks after the rape, she mustered courage and sobbed out the story of her torture by the prison guard to the jail boss. |
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| Trapping is presented as a blood sport where animals suffer in a seeming never ending torture. |
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| Manucci's mouth is loaded for bear, and he manages to keep insulting and lying to them even under torture or threat of death. |
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| To do so is invite into your life the three demons of chaos, torture and heartbreak. |
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| They get a buzz out of driving fast but the damage they do causes heartbreak and torture for families like ours. |
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| From the small arsenal of instruments of punishment and torture on display, visitors will gain a graphic idea of crime and castigation. |
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| I like the tangible reward of a blue ribbon after I've subjected myself to the torture of riding without stirrups in an equitation class. |
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| Her clear eyes gazed lovelessly at me as I stood still, my own eyes burning into hers in hope of inflicting some emotional torture. |
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| This assistant had the stomach for torture, bloodshed, and all of the things that made Tyrell 's skin crawl. |
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| Women and children there are subjected to atrocious harassment and torture, particularly in the workplace. |
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| Last September the Center announced that a detainee had died in Juwaida Prison as a result of torture. |
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| Before you answer, you would have no opportunity to grill him, tar and feather him or subject him to any form of torture. |
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| The country has been accused of a series of grisly human rights abuses, including torture, murder and boiling detainees alive. |
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| It is often associated with the act of boiling people as a means of torture. |
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| The man once thought invincible faced a judge, called to answer charges of murder and torture. |
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| She must have weighed under a hundred pounds and this man like a bloated balloon ready to pop needed to torture her? |
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| Many people think of human rights exclusively in terms of torture, political prisoners, or massacres of civilians. |
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| Human Rights Watch reports thousands of political prisoners and systematic torture and execution. |
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| Signs of torture may be subtle and include occult fractures from beatings or 1-2 mm clustered scars from electrical burns. |
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| Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it? |
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| I closed my eyes, refusing to see the torture being done to my poor, undeserving hair. |
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| Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim. |
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| You send such an important message to people who are in chains and suffering from torture behind the Bamboo Curtain of communism. |
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| They vary up the torture tactics via new school hardcore, the furious primal bombast of thrash metal and every barbed edge in-between. |
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| The strappado, also known as the pendulum, was one of the easiest and, therefore, one of the most common torture techniques. |
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| I always thought torture was bamboo shoots under the fingernails and iron maidens and such. |
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| The books he reads are about death, magic, mysticism, the occult, and torture. |
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| Both Ms. Rice and Mr. Gonzales gave the required categorical rejection of torture. |
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| You'll never confuse bookkeeping with fun, but today's software can take the edge off of the torture. |
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| No, U.S. attorneys did not use the thumbscrew or the rack, but they employed torture all the same. |
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| It seduces the men of the world with the sweet temptation of wealth and power that binds them to a fate of devilry, torture, and death. |
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| True originals, Cave, Waits and Cohen create worlds of tenderness and torture, and when you put on one of their records, they own you. |
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| Death squads are operating with official sanction and running their own torture centres where detainees have their skin flayed from their bones. |
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| His arrogance and ineptitude were on fine display Tuesday, when he dickered over the word torture. |
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| They just don't care if someone is wrongly accused, and they could not care less about torture or cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| It is both a museum and a memorial to the thousands who experienced torture under two different totalitarian regimes in the subterranean cells. |
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| What is the significance for us of the saint who sang divine praises in the sudatorium that was being used as her torture chamber? |
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| The Government rarely punished persons responsible for torture or unlawful deaths. |
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| But there was no tribunal or court to punish international crimes of torture. |
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| Other punishment practices include torture, often in front of family members, and execution. |
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| The subject of the torture will indeed tell the torturer anything he or she wants to here in order to stop the physical torture. |
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| But, as with torture, the harm capital punishment does is not limited to its subject. |
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| Held together with large screws and lit by bare light bulbs, these cramped quarters conflate domestic spaces with torture chambers. |
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| Once they regained consciousness, they were subjected to same brutal torture. |
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| Those detained face beatings and other forms of torture, aimed at coercing confessions or information about rebel forces. |
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| Together they set off on a road trip of mass murder, mental and physical torture and sexual perversion. |
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| As he explained, it can refer to anything from the use of so-called truth drugs to application of one or another method of torture. |
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| We heard about the men who were falsely convicted after torture by a corrupt policeman. |
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| Despite a media blackout on the province, reports continued to filter out of extra judicial murders, arbitrary arrest and torture. |
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| They were like parasites, leeching on to him, just wanting him to do this or that, or to torture him. |
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| The message seems to be that it's inhuman to torture a nonhuman who simulates human emotion convincingly enough. |
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| And when the only fate awaiting them is torture, death becomes the other less humiliating option. |
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| Besides torture and ill-treatment, civilian contractors are also accused of involvement in wrongful deaths. |
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| We mustn't allow a hurried attempt by the political establishment to cover up torture in our name. |
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| As such, people from warmer climates will be spared the torture of subzero temperatures. |
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| She saw the burning hot coals and wondered what torture they were going to submit her to. |
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| Yet it remains clear that the practice of torture does hold some clues, as yet largely uninvestigated, to past attitudes towards the human body. |
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| Our law allows for a person to be prosecuted for carrying out torture, even if the crime was committed abroad. |
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| Park's naturalistic depiction of brutal violence and sadistic torture often make for uncomfortable viewing. |
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| He knew it would be torture to have to drink a mug of grog at each and every one, but he would do it if it meant finding the correct tavern. |
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| In the Americas, the branks were a type of humiliation punishment, while in medieval Europe, they were used more as a torture device. |
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| He spent much of his time in solitary confinement, in a prison condemned by the UN for torture. |
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| What tort claims, if any, could be brought against those who were involved in the torture. |
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| Alas, the second film is an absolutely harrowing tale of torture and dismemberment. |
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| This included the torture of more than 100 women who fled El Salvador and were disposed of by being thrown from helicopters. |
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| They promised not to harm them, not to torture or brutalize them with taser guns. |
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| It is the material of his eternal life either in everlasting joy or painful torture. |
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| Creep is a gory bloodbath, with enough macabre incidents of torture to put it up near the video nasty shelf. |
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| It felt like I was in the torture scene from a science fiction movie, except that it didn't hurt. |
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| There are no mentions of mass starvation, torture, concentration camps or the excesses of the current regime. |
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| Alex was already dog-tired from the torture of the day and the lack of coffee, but the day wasn't over yet. |
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| The government's assertion that torture and summary executions might be carried out without recourse to the law clearly shocked the court. |
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| The view holds that even a law passed by Congress forbidding the use of torture doesn't apply when the president exercises his exclusive power. |
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| In his first staged play, we see the banal existence of a boarding-house lodger ripped apart by psychological torture. |
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| Forced expulsion and mass ethnic cleansing were added to the human rights abuse record of torture, disappearance, and assassination. |
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| It is an endearing trait, for it encapsulates the exquisite torture endured by so many football fans at this time of year. |
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| And it must be the most exquisite torture to be a centrist who is also a patriot. |
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| They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game. |
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| But in practice the prohibition means exquisite torture for the fighting men and women who crave and deserve a stiff drink at day's end. |
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| It's a form of exquisite torture watching George and Martha torment each other, and occasionally this becomes tiresome. |
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| Nights of research, practicing accents, roles and dances, were exquisite torture. |
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| It drew on sociological studies from several countries that describe confinement under sentence of death as exquisite psychological torture. |
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| The last eight years working with her had been, to say the least, the most exquisite type of torture. |
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| She found it exquisite torture to have to hold still, to remain kneeling, but somehow she managed. |
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| The spring rain that she had worshipped before now trickled down the back of her neck like the most exquisite torture. |
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| I could empathise with the exquisite torture of figuring out your place in the world. |
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| For most, imprisonment at home would equate to unspeakable living conditions, physical torture, and false confessions extorted by threats. |
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| If your intention is to extract information, you cannot be accused of torture. |
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| Moreover, the presiding officer can admit previous evidence extracted by torture. |
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| During criminal investigation police frequently resort to torture to extract information from suspects while they are in their custody. |
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| Prisons are never happy places, and places of prolonged, extrajudicial detention and torture seem to retain their edge for a very long time. |
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| Only a hypocrite would ban foxhunting but allow the more proletarian pleasures of fishing, which is quite clearly a form of drawn-out torture. |
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| Perhaps the best acting came from Henry Silva, who played a truly evil villain, one who enjoys his torture and drugging people. |
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| Now go home in peace, recharge your batteries, and come back on Monday, back to the salt mines, so that we may torture you further. |
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| Live a good life according to God and you'll go to a form of paradise, live a sinful life and you'll go to a form of torture. |
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| Among the most common manifestations of previous torture are panic attacks, insomnia and claustrophobia. |
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| They later claimed that their patently false confessions had been extracted by torture. |
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| Well, there are no legal orders which permit you to rape and torture prisoners. |
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| Besides learning criminal law, he learnt to investigate cases of police torture and providing free legal aid to the poor and indigent prisoners. |
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| Bald-headed Fred's robbery and torture anecdotes made excellent writing material but our inharmonious natures made living together burdensome. |
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| They violate the convention against torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. |
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| The inquisitional chair and the tools of torture are there for the viewers to see. |
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| A former CIA director has exclusively told ITV News that torture is condoned and even approved by HIS government. |
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| They're used as torture instruments to elicit secrets, saw off limbs, drill holes in ankles, etc. |
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| Every act constituting torture under the Convention constitutes a criminal offense under the law of the United States. |
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| It angers the world more than the film of the death houses and torture chambers discovered in Iraq. |
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| Only three years earlier in 1971, the Turkish army had carried out a putsch, and for two years left-wingers suffered arrest, torture and murder. |
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| After half-an-hour of this taunting and torture, the only place his men would have been was in his bad books. |
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| Behind the suit and smooth talk, this man is a criminal who has organised and financed murder and torture. |
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| I've always been on the fence about whether waterboarding constituted torture. |
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| As a visual culture driven by images on TV and in the movies, waterboarding is a conveniently cinematic form of torture. |
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| That process will be lengthy and is more likely than not to involve torture. |
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| Grimm's play does yield some fun amid all the torture, bloodshed, and rodomontade. |
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| One of the issues in the case is whether what was described by him was severe enough to amount to persecution or torture. |
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| Members of the security forces torture, beat and otherwise abuse prisoners and detainees. |
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| She filed a case of harassment under section 498A after suffering severe mental torture. |
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| Many people who have had to flee their homelands will have suffered physical or mental torture. |
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| And, if he is particularly unlucky, he will end up with both the physical pain and the mental torture. |
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| Along with the other organisers he was sent to Drapchi where he suffered physical and mental torture. |
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| The use of unmuzzled dogs during interrogations is, in my mind, tantamount to torture. |
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| It is very obvious if confessions were exerted under torture, then they are null and void. |
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| The more disturbing aspect of this story is the amount of angsty torture they're putting their fictional selves through. |
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| For example, torture is deemed an extraditable crime under Article 13 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture. |
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| White rapacity, hypocrisy, and cant are hard to stomach, but so are cannibalism, headhunting, and the refined torture of captives. |
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| He argued that all the applicable statutes and treaty obligations can be read in such a way as to define torture very narrowly. |
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| But historically torture has most often been defined more narrowly, as an aspect of legal systems or of state repression. |
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| No doubt you missed our light touch with that heavyweight issue on torture last week. |
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| In terms of brutality, systematic repression, number of killings, relish for torture and sum total of human misery caused, he was a piker next to that tyrant. |
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| In a sense we can take some solace these days from the fact that the enablers and justifiers of torture seem more and more isolated and embattled. |
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| He was unapologetic about the death of one demonstrator and the beatings, false imprisonments, torture, and unprovoked attacks on countless others. |
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| In a case decided in 1950 the Brussels Court Martial had already ruled that torture in time of armed conflict was prohibited by a customary international law rule. |
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| Its military has shamed America with the torture in Abu Ghraib. |
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| And that's because every corn, blister, swollen ankle and ingrowing toenail will register its torture on your face, no matter how much you try to smile though the pain. |
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| I agree with the suffrage of women, the abolition of torture and so on. |
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| Yet another may allow that torture is justified for another set of ifs. |
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| Does this open him to charges of conspiracy to commit torture? |
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| The men were hooded and handcuffed and taken to a former torture centre. |
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| The lengthy detention of scores of people without trial as well as hundreds of cases of torture and forced confessions on sedition charges could also be investigated. |
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| But even viewed miraculously, Jesus' ability to endure torture in The Passion works against any spiritual exaltation that the film wishes to inspire. |
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| Despite promises of police reform, police continue to use torture to intimidate, harass and humiliate women detainees to extract money or information. |
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| Now, of course I'm naturally suspicious, but point two could be read as a qualification of point one, in which case it allows wiggle room for the legal torture of inmates. |
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| The deliberate infliction of severe pain on a member of the community of equals, either wantonly or for an alleged benefit to others, is regarded as torture, and is wrong. |
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| I torture you guys by giving you tons of homework, pop quizzes, and tests. |
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| There are even do-it-yourself waxing kits, but unless you're a glutton for punishment, it's pretty hard to put yourself through such torture and it can get very messy. |
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| This year however has been pure torture, the hidings from Cats and Dogs being sufferable because in each case Freo was buried half way through the second quarter. |
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| They carry out rapes, massacres, suffocations, torture and terror. |
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| In that memo, it was asserted that inflicting severe pain constituted torture only if the perpetrator knowingly acted for the express and sole purpose of causing agony. |
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| A practice of torture by police or prison authorities, either in the form of political persecution or in the context of Art 3 of the Convention, is attributable to the State. |
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| If you seek pleasure with disregard for others you're going down a dark, lonely, depressing slide into mental torture a place where you wish you weren't born. |
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| Two whole easily forgettable years of torture and boredom are almost over. |
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| Every group in this country has suffered torture at police hands. |
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| I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants. |
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| Many of those arrested reported beatings and instances of torture. |
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| Well, apart from the torture victims, the murdered and other unfortunates who have had their civil liberties eroded, human rights curtailed and so on. |
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| But this rather ignores the deterioration of law and order and stories of torture and beatings suffered by those that dared to protest during matches. |
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| I've no doubt you will be the size of a toothpick by the time the camera starts rolling, but you will have had to brutally torture yourself to do it. |
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| Arbitrary arrest, police beatings, torture to extract confession, the persecution of defence lawyers, and the intimidation of witnesses are widespread. |
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| There are treaty obligations, Clement replied, and there is the threat of court martial for people in the military who torture enemies contrary to the law. |
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| Military experts point out that that code of conduct is a moral guide, not a legal guide, and that statements made under duress or torture are rarely punished or reprimanded. |
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| While he was here, the government of Spain sought to extradite him to stand trial for conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to torture, and hostage taking. |
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| It now is American government policy that waterboarding is torture. |
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| As for torture, we can go all the way back to the English Bill of Rights in 1689 to find that civilization had evolved enough to outlaw cruel and unusual punishment. |
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| Even during the last mile I felt I had a lot more in me, though I can only imagine the pain and the mental torture of doing the whole thing again. |
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| He left me alive to torture me, to keep his haunting words in my mind. |
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| In particular as you will see, abuse and torture are widespread despite the prohibition by the constitution of infliction of physical harm upon those arrested or detained. |
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| Gorillas practice infanticide and chimpanzees hunt and torture baboons. |
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| It was said that what began with little slaps ended in torture and murder. |
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| There were isolated and undetailed allegations of physical torture. |
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| As if it wasn't hard enough to master the mental torture that is the three-point turn, we learner drivers are now meant to know what goes on under the bonnet of our cars. |
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| Saturday Night Live is having a field day with the torture scandal. |
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| The act of Bastinado, generally used to punish miscreants but also to elicit answers from torture victims, extends back through history hundreds of years. |
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| This paradox arises either through the blocking of memory, or under oppressive regimes through torture and fear of the consequences of testifying. |
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| In applied ethics, my two most extensive research programs are on the moral permissibility of interrogational torture and on ethical issues surrounding new technologies. |
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| Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture. |
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| When we finally emerged from the cave after an eight-hour trip it was as if we had spent the last eight hours on that medieval instrument of torture, the rack. |
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| It was a tacit condoning of torture, brutality and summary execution. |
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| This was not the first time that torture had seized public attention. |
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| In the South mobs received less opposition from authorities, were more likely to sadistically torture their victims, and were more likely to kill. |
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| One is not bound to regard torture as only present in a mediaeval dungeon where the appliances of rack and thumbscrew or similar devices were employed. |
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| There is gratuitous torture, interrogational torture, judicial torture, vengeful torture, intimidational torture, torture as punishment and noble cause torture. |
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| At the same time the model does not completely bar the possibility that interrogational torture will be used by officials and later ratified by the public. |
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| So refraining from torture may not always make sense on a pragmatic basis. |
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| He wields a giant microphone like some kind of torture implement. |
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| Human-rights organizations have charged his forces with widespread rape, massacres in churches, mutilation, torture, cannibalism and forced conscription of child combatants. |
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| Neither Howard nor any Minister had nailed their colours to the mast in a way that would have made revelation of torture stories an embarrassment for them. |
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| How, again, can we explain the idea, held by so many religious people, that an omnipotent and benevolent God can justly condemn people to an eternity of torture? |
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| Prowling the stage like a drunken panther, his tales of emotional torture may have grown tiresome, but his incendiary political material proved a rip-roaring success. |
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| Despite the fact my hangovers have begun to transmogrify from tolerable annoyances into day-long periods of apocalyptic torture, I'm still getting drunk because I love drinking. |
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| The only way to end this torture is either to suspend the singles chart over Christmas or ban songsmiths from making any reference to the day in question. |
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| It's not that they'll beat you up and torture you and throw you into jail. |
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| We are talking of torture and extrajudicial executions or assassinations. |
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| And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused. |
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| While torture is non-existent in New Zealand, and cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment very rare, it is always good to have a backstop to make sure we stick to our ideals. |
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| The adolescent recipient of this kind of torture is forced into the position of trying to prove that she didn't do whatever it is her peers claim she did. |
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| On the more practical side, we also have an Animal Protection Law, which administers effective punishments for misuse, abandoning and torture of animals. |
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| Let me start by expatiating on the torture that was our football game. |
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| It might look like a long-lost exhibit from a medieval torture chamber, but this chair is designed to ease away the stresses and strains of the working day. |
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| The police often use torture or the threat of torture to extort money. |
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| I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstitution of torture and rape as acts of policy. |
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| When you consider the existence of this angelic Pipel, his brutal behavior toward his own father, and his terrible torture and death, you start to understand the intensity of the narrator's despair. |
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| I will not attempt to hide my utter contempt for such casuistry, nor my shame that I work in and organisation where colleagues would resort to it to justify torture. |
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| Gollum is a murderer and liar, but he is also a broken-down, pathetic creature, whose torture at the hands of Sauron's minions atoned for many sins. |
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| Upon dialing the correct sequence on the keypad, Allison pulled open the doors to display the vast array of torture weapons Division 6 had to offer. |
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