Sentence examples for avoid torture from inspiring English sources

Surely the British avoid torture, if only because it is British to do so?

A friend had slipped him a suicide pill before an interrogation by an Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant), coincidentally named Krugier, so he could avoid torture and would not reveal Resistance secrets.

But that did not last long, I found out some of the detainees were serving as spies on others to avoid torture, passing on every last bit of gossip.

A lawyer assigned by the review commission to study Mr. Alejo's case said a neighbor of his, who was picked up by the army in the Paucartambo restaurant the same day the same soldiers questioned Mr. Alejo, had signed a statement implicating him and others to avoid torture.

"Everyone was focused on trying to avoid torture, staying within the line, while doing everything possible to save American lives," Bush administration lawyer Timothy Flanigan has been quoted as saying.

A bipartisan Senate Intelligence committee report would later conclude that al-Libi lied about the link "to avoid torture".

And the poor, benighted writers, for whom I feel extremely sorry even if I don't enjoy a particular script of theirs, could avoid torturing themselves by reading them so often.

Jason turned his head to avoid torturing me with the foul air that came from his mouth as he belched.

As president, the oratorically-challenged Mr Bush has avoided torture by television, and his decision to subject himself to an hour of grilling on "Meet The Press" reflects the White House's view that he had to counter his recently diminished standing.

Avoid torturing the fish in any way.

A few minutes of hideous torture on earth were deemed a small price to pay for helping such souls avoid eternal torture in the afterlife.