Sentence examples for torture down from inspiring English sources

Much of the memo is concerned with defining torture down: if the pain inflicted on a prisoner is less than the pain that accompanies "serious physical injury, such as organ failure," it's not torture.

When the orders to torture came down, some realized the jeopardy they were in.

Two of his associates, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, were also acquitted, although Mr. Brahimaj has already served a six-year sentence for torture handed down in an earlier trial.

She was forced to listen to him being tortured down a phone line while they extorted her.

I'm still haunted by my brother's agonizing and blood-curdling screams as he was being tortured down the hall from my cell.

John Galt remains nonchalant even while being tortured, and when the torture machine breaks down he calmly tells its operators how to fix it.

We're gonna end torture and shut down Guantánamo and get out of Iraq!

"From Europe to the Pacific", Mr Obama said in May, "we've been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law".

From Europe to the Pacific, we have been a nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law.

Mr. Park was subjected to the same torture: "Hanging upside down like that for hours, you feel like your face has swollen to twice its size.

We should be getting to the bottom of this – Britain's complicity in kidnap and torture – not closing down routes to exposing it".