Sentence examples for feeling of drowning from inspiring English sources

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Among the techniques was one known as waterboarding, a method that induced a feeling of drowning.

General Hayden said the technique, which induces a feeling of drowning, had not been used since 2003.

One technique that C.I.A. officers could use under certain circumstances without fear of prosecution was strapping a subject down and making him experience a feeling of drowning.

Some of those captured in the first two years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were subjected to particularly severe methods, including waterboarding, which induces a feeling of drowning.

Waterboarding, a centuries-old method that simulates a feeling of drowning, has become a symbol of the larger debate over the C.I.A. detention and interrogation program, and the Mukasey nomination has become a kind of proxy fight for that battle.

The technique, which has been used since the Spanish Inquisition and has been found illegal in the past by American courts, involves water poured into the nose and mouth to create a feeling of drowning.

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Marclay conveys a sense of living at a time of movies available instantly at the touch of a button, and conveys his feelings about that sense of drowning in the history of cinema.

Nancy Makin of Michigan claims that by hanging out and playing on the Internet, she made friends she wouldn't in real life, and was able to talk about her feelings and stuff instead of drowning them in food.

A boating accident that had killed five girls aged twelve and thirteen and left another feeling forever on the verge of drowning — she could see, from the look of concern and pity in his eyes, that he had interpreted her melancholy air that way.

There is no denying the feeling of being pushed against a wall, of drowning in the stereotypes that abound.

They die of drowning.

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