Sentence examples for a method of torture from inspiring English sources

"It is a method of torture.

He had come to say how, as a security policeman in the late 1980s, he had developed a method of torture known as the "wet bag".He explained calmly that this technique involved forcing the suspect face down on to the floor, and handcuffing his hands behind his back.

Waterboarding is a method of torture that goes beyond the fear of suffocation.

I've heard that sleep deprivation can be used as a method of torture.

In a flashback sequence of the episode, Lucas is subjected to waterboarding, a method of torture.

"I find it more likely he brought acid as a method of torture [and] experimented with it," Washington, D.C.-based criminal profiler Pat Brown told The Huffington Post.

In a flashback sequence in one of his early episodes, Lucas is subjected to waterboarding, a method of psychological torture.

The third round of interrogation had a new method of torture, which was chaining my arms back to be lifted up.

"America using an acknowledged method of torture to combat terrorism, Australia detaining innocent people in cruel, inhumane or degrading circumstances to protect the integrity of its borders".

If Crowley had personally prevented the older hunter from reaching heaven because of the role he played in thwarting Crowley's plans, wouldn't the King of Hell have devised a slightly more devastating method of torture than sending in black-eyed Winchesters to taunt him?

A retired brigadier general, Kenneth North, also a prisoner of war in Vietnam, describes the introductory method of torture used by the North Vietnamese: pulling a prisoner's arms behind his back and tying them together at the elbows, then yanking them higher until bones were dislocated.