Sentence examples for is rendition from inspiring English sources

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is rendition

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The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).

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"Of course it is rendition – it is the illegal transfer of someone from one country to another.

Instead, what the world sees is rendition victims blocked from American courts while architects of their torment write books bragging about their role in this legal and moral travesty.

It was "readily apparent", his court statement says, that the committee at the time was discussing "extraordinary rendition" – that is, rendition specifically carried out for the purposes of torture.

Well, the current focus on the CIA policy of flying terror suspects to countries where they can be questioned outside the protection of US law reveals that the latest word to get its ass kicked is "rendition".

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Panetta told me, "The worst part of rendition was rendition to a black site.

"The C.I.A. involvement shows this was no immigration removal, this was rendition," she said.

"These were rendition operations," he added, "nothing more".

"He'd say, 'Andy, it's worse than beating.' He wanted to be sent to Egypt to be renditioned.

Three of the paintings seized from the first house were renditions of Michelangelo's Madonna and Child.

Later, when I would record my first album, half the cuts on it were renditions of songs that Van Ronk did".

(Schweitzer) 'Messiah' (Sunday) So omnipresent are renditions of Handel's sweepingly strange classic oratorio that it is possible on Sunday to hear two at Carnegie Hall alone.

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