Sentence examples for ordered to strip from inspiring English sources

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Each group of detainees was ordered to strip and have their heads shorn.

Men in the village were then ordered to strip, and their valuables were robbed.

Fisherman say they have  also been ordered to strip naked and swim to Israeli ships before their boats are seized.

She and 13 other women were ordered to strip, to see if they had long vaginal lips, which the gunmen believed would have magical properties.

In one instance there, a Liberian asylum seeker was ordered to strip naked to determine whether he had scars consistent with torture.

The activist, clearly still shocked by the ordeal, said she was forced into a vehicle, ordered to strip and repeatedly assaulted over the following hours.

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She uses the child's naïve point of view, narrating by allusion, in order to strip her opponents of content and context.

In January, the President tried, unsuccessfully, to ban them by executive order, and his 2018 budget threatened to rewrite a federal statute in order to strip such cities (including New York City and Los Angeles) of some of their federal funding.

In order to strip the electoral process down to its purest state, Cutler has eliminated a muddying real-world element from "American Candidate": contestants don't have to engage in the dirty business of fund-raising.

Instead it indulges in scare tactics and outdated information in order to strip frightened families of money that could otherwise — score one, Columbo — be used to pay for college.

For centuries, the greed and short-sightedness of the City's denizens have made them a target: in the 18th century, Jonathan Swift described the jobbers as "traders waiting for shipwrecks in order to strip the dead".

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