Sentence examples for harsh procedures from inspiring English sources

Chemical fixation provides cell structures with physical resistance against subsequent harsh procedures.

But they showed that the interrogation techniques being debated at the highest levels included harsh procedures that emerged in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The New York Times yesterday reported that the military intelligence brigade that took control of the interrogation centre was deployed direct from Afghanistan and brought with it harsh procedures it had developed there.

Within the military in particular, some of the harsh procedures authorized until this spring were quickly suspended or abandoned after the extent of the abuses at Abu Ghraib surfaced in April.

An August 2002 memo by the Justice Department that concluded interrogators could use extreme techniques on detainees in the war on terror helped provide an after-the-fact legal basis for harsh procedures used by the C.I.A. on high-level leaders of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.

Those rules allowed the use of harsh procedures banned from Guantánamo, including using sleep deprivation, to as little as four hours' rest each 24 hours, and making prisoners stand or crouch in positions for up to an hour, according to Senate aides who have read the confidential document.

The surgery was state of the art at the time, but it was a harsh procedure.

Only then were humans subjected to this harsh procedure, and with decades of incremental research, now many are cured of illnesses like leukemia and lymphoma.

Harsher Procedures Added At Guantánamo, the first clear widening of authority came in December 2002, when commanders asked the Pentagon for more latitude in interrogating a Saudi Arabian prisoner believed to be the planned 20th hijacker of Sept. 11.

Due to the high electronic conductivity of the expanded graphite the N-CNF/EG could be used as electrocatalysts without the need for harsh purification procedures.

Former military psychologists working under contract for the agency helped design the harsh interrogation procedures, and contractors carried out some interrogations, as well as performing medical and security tasks, according to former agency officials.