Sentence examples for stressed position from inspiring English sources

English bilabial and velar plosives—/p/ (pea: / p h i:/, pear: / p h eə/), /b/ (bee: / bi:/, bear: / beə/), /k/ (coat: / k h əʊt/, cat: / k h æt/), /g/ (goat: /gəʊt/, good: /gʊd/)—were elicited in the word-initial stressed position.

The booth is the ultimate "stress position," without all the inconvenience of shackles or the messiness of waterboarding.

Detainees were routinely shackled in painful "stress positions".

These include sleep deprivation and forcing prisoners' bodies into "stress positions" for hours at a time.

As court filings indicate, Padilla was allegedly subjected to sleep deprivation, stress positions and extreme temperatures.

At the prison in Guantánamo Bay, men had to endure extreme heat and cold, unrelenting loud music, sleep deprivation, forced nakedness and "stress positions".

The film shows Corporal Donald Payne, formerly of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, shouting and swearing at the Iraqis as they are forced to maintain painful "stress positions".

The group said it had received reports that detainees were being denied food, water and medical treatment and being held in "stress positions" for up to 48 hours.

The two British Muslims say they were threatened with torture, deprived of sleep, subjected to stress positions and told they would be killed and fed to dogs.

Other detainees with broken feet and legs were subjected to stress positions for extended periods of time.

Others were forced to maintain "stress positions" even on broken limbs and though medical personnel had advised against it.