Sentence examples for throw prisoners from inspiring English sources

The phrase "throw prisoners" is not correct and is not considered a complete sentence.
It is unclear what the intended action is, and it does not have a clear subject or verb. Instead, a more complete sentence could be "The guards threw the prisoners into their cells." This sentence specifies who is doing the action (the guards) and what the action is (throwing the prisoners into their cells). Another example could be "The dictator ordered his soldiers to throw political prisoners into the dungeons." This sentence specifies who gave the command (the dictator), who is carrying out the action (the soldiers), and who the action is being done to (political prisoners).

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In such a world no one can be trusted: not the doctor who pays Kaddish for his graveyard services with nose jobs for him and his wife; not the retired pilot whose job was to throw prisoners from a plane into the river; not the priest whose sacramental duty demands, he believes, deceit and betrayal of those who confide in him.

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What's sexy is building prisons and flexing your arms while throwing prisoners in jail.

And yet, I am part of a society that stopped throwing prisoners into dungeons to rot, part of a culture that claims to be humane.

Spc Graner was described by fellow soldiers and former detainees as a brutal sadist who whistled as he administered beatings - to the point that he broke chairs or damaged his own hand - and threw prisoners' rations into the toilet.

Hamas consolidated its control over Gaza in 2007, kicking out Fatah in a bloody battle that included fighting in hospitals and apartment buildings, and both sides throwing prisoners off rooftops.

The Seleka kept up their atrocities: burning people alive, killing hospital patients, throwing bound prisoners off bridges to drown.

The High Court ordered the extradition on Monday of a Dutch-Argentine pilot to Argentina to face charges of throwing political prisoners out of aircraft into the sea under the military dictatorship 30 years ago.

One triumph was the jailing in Spain of Adolfo Scilingo, a navy captain in Argentina's former junta who admitted throwing drugged prisoners out of aircraft into the sea.In this section End of an affair?

In one document, military officials are instructed to avoid referring to anyone as "disappeared", a term that became common currency during the period because of the military's penchant for burning victims' bodies or throwing drugged prisoners from aircraft into rivers so relatives would never find them.

The prisons are designed to throw figures of prisoners — in their Mondrian-red or yellow or black-striped uniforms — into sharp, surveillable relief and to disempower them through a kind of cultural neutralizing.

Do you think the average reader who has not read the O.L.C. memos will walk away from your piece thinking that "walling" (the official term used to describe a specific technique including a collapsible wall, a loud noise, and measures to protect against whiplash) is just throwing a prisoner face first into a cellblock wall?

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