Sentence examples for that the infliction from inspiring English sources

There are suggestions in the film that the infliction of pain and fear sometimes produced unreliable information, and one brutalized detainee gives valuable information not under torture but later, during a relaxed meal, when his interrogators trick him.

The adjective "severe," the report said, "makes plain that the infliction of pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insufficient to amount to torture.

As Americans remembered the boys of Pointe du Hoc and the president who immortalized them, they had to read reports of government lawyers telling their superiors that "the infliction of pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insufficient to amount to torture".

The majority cited a United States Supreme Court precedent that prohibits "the infliction of unnecessary pain in the execution of the death sentence" and the Georgia court's own ban on "the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering".

Paragraph 16 of the General Orders, No. 100, the Army's Civil War-era combat regulations, could not have been clearer: "Military necessity does not admit of cruelty — that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions".

Assault is the apprehension of the possibility of immediate unlawful violence, and battery that of the infliction of such violence.

Nobody can know better than John McCain the humiliation of the victim and the degradation of the victor that come with the infliction of torture.

That law defines torture as the infliction of "severe physical or mental pain or suffering".

I think that if we ever confronted an actual case of imminent mass terrorism that could be prevented by the infliction of torture, we would use torture (even lethal torture) and the public would favor its use...

Given that torture involves both the infliction of extreme physical suffering and the substantial curtailment of the victim's autonomy, torture is a very great evil indeed.

Harvey is pessimistic that growth can be restarted without the infliction of quite unimaginable hardships on the many of the world's poorest people.