Sentence examples for condemned techniques from inspiring English sources

The methods were expressly prohibited in 1972 by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, after the European human rights court condemned techniques used by the security forces in Northern Ireland.

Appearing on the Fox News Channel, Cheney said he has asked the CIA to release documents showing the effectiveness of the widely condemned technique.

The report condemned the techniques adopted, saying: "Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority".

That night Kennedy condemned the technique as a crime of historic proportions.

WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances.

The psychological association's most recent ethics amendments strongly condemn coercive techniques adopted in the Bush administration's antiterrorism campaign.

The report condemns the techniques adopted: "Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority".

But otherwise the files make little mention of the widely-condemned techniques that were employed to obtain "intelligence" and "confessions" from detainees such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and prolonged exposure to cold and loud music.

The Stalinist state condemned experimental film technique as "bourgeois formalism," and many of the filmmakers who had made Soviet cinema world famous found themselves fighting for their careers or crushed by compromise.

In his confirmation hearings in February, he said he had opposed the program, which used brutal interrogation techniques widely condemned as torture, although he said he had expressed his concerns only in private conversations with other agency officers.

But the Army Field Manual has come under fire because the United Nations Committee Against Torture has condemned some of the techniques — notably sleep and sensory deprivation — as methods that "constitute torture or ill-treatment".