Sentence examples for administering shocks from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Ferreri, whose best-known film is "La Grande Bouffe" (1973), about some men who eat themselves to death, is clearly more committed to administering shocks in this film than in examining his own contribution to social domination.

The report, by the Department of Early Education and Care, found that a former student pretending to be a school official demanded the punishment of two students, and that counselors administered shocks without double-checking.

The researchers administered shocks to the animals, accompanied by tones or lights, so that they would come to associate the tone or light stimuli with the shock's onset, and, in some cases, then learn to avoid the shock by jumping over a barrier.

It cites allegations of abuse at the Red Onion state prison in Virginia, where the mostly white guards are said to have used stun belts to administer shocks accompanied by racist abuse hurled at the inmates, three-quarters of whom are black.

But people whose moral reasoning focused on their responsibility were less likely to continue to administer shocks.

Before the government administered shock treatment to a patient only just off the life support machine, the economy was growing at a quarterly rate of 1.1%.

She says that some of Mailer's friends presented her with a petition asking her to refuse to allow doctors to administer shock treatment to her husband, on the ground that it might damage his creative genius.

Previous research has shown that spinally transected rats will learn to maintain a flexion response when administered shock contingent upon leg position.

In reality, there were no shocks (the teacher couldn't see the learner), but the person administering the shocks didn't know that.

Torture methods included pulling out prisoners' toenails, administering electric shocks and waterboarding.

Soldiers were accused of widespread looting, beating and administering electric shocks during interrogations of villagers.