Sentence examples for use in brainwashing from inspiring English sources

With the discovery in the 1950's that the North Koreans were brainwashing American prisoners, the Special Operations Division at Detrick became the center for the development of drugs for use in brainwashing and interrogation.

Taylor provides background on the development of the term brainwashing, from its use in 1950 by journalist Edward Hunter and its later usage as applied to the spheres of cults, marketing, influence, thought reform, torture and reeducation.

Patricia Hearst, the newspaper heiress, used the brainwashing defense in her trial nearly three decades ago, but a jury convicted her on charges that she had assisted the Symbionese Liberation Army in robbing a bank in 1975.

Traffickers in the film use hard drugs, brainwashing and sexual and physical abuse to keep the girls under control.

Already it seemed that Channel Three had unfairly presented the program as a cult using brainwashing techniques à la Taliban in Afghan internment camps.

The term brainwashing has been widely used in sensational journalism to refer to such activities (and to many other activities) when they have allegedly been conducted by Maoists in China and elsewhere.

The SERE methods were derived from Chinese "thought reform" (or "brainwashing") and were originally used in the training of U.S. soldiers to resist torture and capture.

"The media is being used to brainwash people to believe Malema is the enemy.

The classrooms would be used to brainwash kids' minds with evil Empire propaganda.

Some, like David Brooks in the New York Times, are using books like "Brainwashed" as an excuse to toss out neuroscience altogether.

They said that I am an agitator, an instigator (which are expressions used in Romanian communist newspapers for people who speak out loud), and that I have been brainwashed.