Sentence examples for use of stress from inspiring English sources

The use of stress positions was designed to cause muscle fatigue, physical discomfort and exhaustion.

Extreme physical violence, hooding, the use of stress positions, and sleep deprivation were apparently standard operating procedure.

Anything outside those specific techniques -- including use of stress positions -- is, by omission, unauthorized.

Indeed, Special Forces officers openly discuss the use of "stress inoculation" -- in which they are exposed to heartbeat-racing drills that raise their threshold for staying calm.

This ultimately led to authorization by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez of the use of stress positions, "sleep management" and military dogs to exploit detainees' fears, the report said.

The mood within the Bush administration at the time is caught in a handwritten note attached to a December 2002 memo from Donald Rumsfeld, the then defence secretary, on the use of stress positions.

These effects can be exacerbated by the use of stress-susceptible pigs and poor ambient control inside the vehicle.

The use of stress-related regression models implies an unjustified precision in estimating the failure rate parameter.

Objectives: To examine the relationship between task and ego orientations and the use of stress-coping strategies among athletes participating in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games.

To determine whether severe stress events and more frequent use of stress-management behaviors among men with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are associated with more desirable nutrition-related parameters.

Structural design improvements to alleviate and avoid this problem included a lower profile spar design, substitution of Nitinol for aluminum as the flap material, and use of stress-relieving holes at the ends of the flap cut-outs.