They were subjected to relentless questioning, coercive and bullying interviews, until they broke down and agreed to abandon their truth (i.e. that no abuse had occurred) for the fiction that social workers, law enforcement and assorted authority figures wanted them to believe: They were raped with butcher knives, participated in orgies and sex games, dismembered dead animals.
According to The Washington Post, "The [intelligence-gathering] effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December [2010] to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it", U.S. officials said.
His localism bill, which will arrive in Parliament soon and is intended to devolve assorted powers to local authorities, will formally abolish Labour's planning system once and for all.
HSBC is paying $1.9bn £1.2bnn) in fines and forfeitures to assorted federal and state authorities for its inadequate controls against money transfers by criminals, terrorists and countries that are subject to sanctions (such as Iran).
That led to much consternation afterward, assorted investigations by the English authorities and a decision by West Ham to bar one fan believed to have been involved in the provocations.
An onslaught this summer by the licensing authorities, the police and assorted bureaucrats has already led to the arrest of 148 minicab drivers.
Prosecutors said Ms. Collins spent the money on furniture, clothing from Barneys and Brooks Brothers and a collection — filling 28 large boxes seized by the authorities — of Madame Alexander dolls and assorted bears, including a "First American Teddy," described by an online seller as being "15 inches tall with a strong patriotic presence".
Many schools still select training and consultancy from a single dominant supplier (often the local authority) or from a folder of assorted fliers that have arrived in the post.
In a demonstration of the complete disregard for authority for which the names of assorted players on his team had long been bywords, Johnny decided completely to ignore the order and sent the ball fizzing low and hard towards the well-guarded goal-line.
Third are the police authorities, which are typically composed of councillors, magistrates and assorted local worthies.
