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"We have had some of these people beaten, to the point of almost killing," said Abid Ahmed.
Alex is beaten to the point of disfigurement, and he grows up under a burden of regret.
A man is beaten to the point of hospitalisation after leaving a gay bar, just because it is a gay bar.
City had outfought their opponents in every department, from A to Z, and the bruises will take a long time to heal for the team beaten to the point of humiliation.
A third detainee, who was also arrested in December, said that he had been strung upside down and severely beaten to the point where some of his ribs were broken and that he had suffered concussions.
Corrigan does what he can – he lets the hookers use his bathroom, keeps the kettle on, spreads the possibility of lighter lives, is beaten to the point of martyrdom by the girls' minders and pimps.
A moral peak is, for example, when a lead character suggests perhaps a prisoner shouldn't be summarily executed, just beaten to the point of near-death in the most humiliating fashion.
But Colonel Qaddafi's soldiers have also been beaten at the point of capture, and some have been shot, including several prisoners in the besieged city of Misurata who were shot through the feet, either as a punishment or as a means to prevent escape.
For India, though, beaten to the point of humiliation in the Test series, riven by injuries that have seen the elite players decamping back home one by one and suffering one of the damper, colder British summers, it must seem interminable.
