Sentence examples for use beatings from inspiring English sources

"These traffickers use beatings and juju to fill their victims with fear," she says.

Urbina also wrote of widespread hard drug use, beatings dealt out by crew managers, thefts from customers and "several highly publicised fatal accidents and violent crimes involving the sales crews".

"The security forces use beatings on the genitals, places where the torture will not be visible.

Authorities also said criminal gangs used beatings and threats to extort money and recruit new members.

According to a State Department human rights report released in March, the Saudi authorities have used "beatings, whippings and sleep deprivation" on Saudi and foreign prisoners.

The military is suddenly not looking like such a good guy any longer, accused of using beatings, torture and military tribunals to silence critics.

Prosecutors charged that members of the conspiracy used beatings and threats to ensure that brokers and stock promoters followed through on promises to cooperate with the fraud in exchange for bribes.

Amnesty International, in a report to be released Wednesday, accuses the Honduran military and police of using beatings and mass arrests to punish protesters for opposing the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya in June.

It accuses Eritrean officials of using beatings and rapes as a way to inflict severe physical and psychological pain, adding: "The purpose of these acts is to extract confessions and information, and to punish, intimidate and coerce detainees and conscripts".

He claimed that the authorities had used "beatings and electric shocks to extract his confession" and said Ethiopia "must immediately start proceedings with  a view to an investigation being commissioned".

Persistent rumors from Iraq suggested that Mr. Hussein's son Uday used beatings and other torture to punish those who did not perform to his liking at international sporting events.