Sentence examples for by a polygraph from inspiring English sources

"Pseudo-colored pictures of a person's brain lighting up are undoubtedly more persuasive than a pattern of squiggles produced by a polygraph," he said.

During the recess, however, Mr. Garner was interviewed by a polygraph examiner but was not tested, for reasons that have not been explained.

Truthful answers, as determined by a polygraph, are rewarded by cash, from $10,000 for the first, relatively banal queries to $500,000 for the marriage-busting kind.

Recently, he said, he began to suspect that "some of the witnesses were lying". It was at that point that Alvin, who was a prosecution witness, was called in and given a test by a polygraph specialist, Natale Laurendi, of the District At torney's office.

The pharmacopeia Johnson sampled may have been extreme, but with their frankness coaxed by a polygraph, 84% of Denver's police applicants--and at least 65% of its recent hires--have acknowledged some past experimentation, according to civil service records.

The church teaches that spiritual freedom — the state of "clear" — can be reached through one-on-one auditing, a form of counseling aided by a polygraph-like device called an e-meter and expensive training courses.

The company's technique, developed by Reid himself, a polygraph expert and former cop, in the late nineteen-forties, involves exerting psychological pressure to encourage confession.

He refused to cooperate with the police by, for example, taking a polygraph test or giving a blood sample.

(A similar device is used in Channel 4's most recent contribution The Lie Detective – in which contestants answer questions about love and sex while wired to a polygraph – by trapping couples in a lift with hidden cameras).

But later, after Saul has spotted a fleet of black sedans tailing him, been shut out by Dar, threatened with a polygraph test (been a while since we had one of those on Homeland), had a nervy freak-out in his hotel room and found his security levels revoked in the office, Saul comes to the conclusion that he's back on Team Carrie.

A tension of 2  g was applied and isometric contraction was recorded by a transducer on a polygraph chart (Battaglia Rangoni).