Sentence examples for beatings a from inspiring English sources

Aamer claims British officials were present during one of the beatings, a claim rejected by the Foreign Office.

This kind of mob justice, often abetted by police officers who say they find the lynchings and beatings a short-cut around the vagaries of the courts, has become an epidemic in Cambodia.

A3 Reporter Tells of Beatings A Radio Liberty reporter, Andrei Babitsky, returned to Moscow more than a month after he disappeared in Chechnya, and said he and others had been beaten in a Russian camp.

By facing every assault — repeated beatings, a friend's death, the theft of a rug — with little more than an exclamation ("Man!") and a toke, he and the Dude affirmed that an American hero doesn't need a punch, just a punch line, something that Judd Apatow's merry band of potheads know well.

Her description of militia life mirrored that of the others who fled: a boot camp marked by endurance runs, push-ups and beatings; a sporadic diet of horse meat and ground corn; indoctrination with hundreds of others in pro-government songs; and widespread drunkenness.

In his message (translated in full), he mixed the language of a lawyer — "As an affected party, I hereby accuse them of the following crimes" — with a medical and logistical accounting of his ordeal, including injuries sustained by his wife, Yuan Weijing, from guards' beatings: a "left orbital bone," "lumbar disc protrusion".

(NYT) MANHATTAN: SUBWAY BEATING A woman from the Bronx who is accused of beating a teenager on the Canal Street subway platform on Sept. 5 was ordered held on $25,000 bail yesterday, a day after turning herself in, officials said.

Ms. Jiang said the beatings represented a sharp escalation of a recent campaign by the Shanghai authorities to silence Mr. Zheng.

There, they put a bag over Lutsenko's head and tortured him in sessions — forty minutes of beatings with a metal pole followed by a few hours' rest.

The use of beatings as a form of corrective behaviour remains a serious problem in Romania.

In another, a detainee is said to have bruises from beatings with a board.