There is nothing more satisfying on television than snobbery -- scenes in which the main character is humiliated by haughty, mean-spirited authority figures.
Arar, 34, a computer engineer who was born in Lebanon, says he was spirited by U.S. authorities to Syria in 2002 and underwent repeated torture while held there for nearly a year.
He was arrested April 9 after flying into the country, but was spirited away by the authorities.
The church authorities had spirited Father von Wernich out of the country and placed him in a parish in Chile under a false name, but he was eventually brought back to Argentina and put on trial.
Reports and pictures of the protests and other acts of defiance against Chinese authorities have been spirited out of the areas to advocacy groups abroad.
Most officials investigated by anti-graft authorities are quietly spirited away for questioning, cut off from contact from their families and not allowed access to lawyers, sometimes for months.
When former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was spirited out of Belgrade by U.N. authorities last week, he reportedly displayed the same unmasked contempt for the international war crimes tribunal that he has since it was created eight years ago.
When the antecedent is inapplicable, for instance, when the patient lacks decision-making capacity, similarly spirited rules apply, such as rules delegating consent "authority" to the patient's advance directive or proxy.
Jodorowsky's obsessions are still in force: spirited amputees, circus performers, blood, alchemy and buffoonish authority.
The police later found two corpses riddled with bullets, one witness, and no sign of the other immigrants, who authorities believe were loaded into vehicles and spirited away.
It has been spirited out of the country," he said, noting US authorities had traced much of the money received by Liew to several Singapore and Chinese companies controlled by his in-laws.
