Sentence examples for element of torture from inspiring English sources

* America's extraordinary rendition programme involves the further element of torture, usually by a third-party proxy state.

Matthew Shepard's killers had never murdered anyone, but there was an element of torture and generalized hatred (homophobia) in their crime that made it seem even more reprehensible.

The whole process is introduced and taught as an element of torture.

Stone: There's an element of torture in almost every penal system, and corruption in almost every system of justice, but they're found to different degrees in different places.

Over the last 15 years, a substantial body of law has developed that sets forth the elements of torture under customary international law, which largely reflects the definition of torture under the Convention Against Torture.

Well, I believe that bullfighting eventually will disappear if it doesn't remove its elements of torture and death.

Day after day we go down into our crap venue -- a mirth extinguisher if there ever was one as it's a goth/rock bar with elements of torture on the walls -- and we do our show for small crowds that really don't want to be there even before the show begins.

One thing that drew everyone but especially the actors in, was the complicated element of roleplay and "torture" in the video.

Among the other elements are the history of torture and murder in the prisons of the dictator Salazar and the crudely sexual drives of at least three of the main characters.

A fair rule, it seems, is that if you are going to make torture a central element of your television show, you ought to have something meaningful to say about its moral stakes.

He supports abortion rights, same-sex marriage, and some elements of affirmative action and is a critic of waterboarding and other uses of torture in interrogation.