Sentence examples for like beatings from inspiring English sources

The report, titled "Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghan Custody," offered a grim tour of Afghanistan's detention facilities, where even adolescents have reported abuse like beatings with hoses and pipes and threats of sodomy.

Mr. Galvão, the intelligence official, echoing scholars who study the militias, said that while homicides tended to decline in areas under militia control, other crimes, like beatings and rapes, often increased.

Over a period of two and a half years that ended on July 1, the civil liberties group found, 51 lawsuits were filed against the Newark police, most of them claiming intentional misconduct like beatings, theft, illegal searches, retaliation against people who reported other transgressions, threats and harassment of officers and civilians.

Many fraternity and sorority members say there is no indication that any activity occurred that came close to putting students in danger, like beatings, which caused the death of a drum major in the Florida A&M band, or forced drinking.

Some of the techniques were simply brutal, like persistent vicious beatings to unconsciousness.

Yet the wall, just like the beatings, arrests and forced demolitions before it, only amplified the steady drumbeat of marches and petitions.

"There are flights toward that light as the movement progresses," O'Connell wrote, "flights of swift muted notes, like the beatings of thousands of invisible wings, coursing the misty upper airs in clouds of vibrant color and life.

New York State is poised to require people convicted of minor crimes like fare-beating to submit their DNA for a comprehensive database.

My discomfort at witnessing scenes like these – of brutal, systemic violence against black bodies that look like mine – was easily assuaged by the reality that so many people had survived beatings like these – had survived worse – so that I could sit alone and revisit their history.

We suggest that packet-like waveforms are the beatings of several Langmuir modes.

Beatings like he was making up for lost time.