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The torture was aimed at getting him to confess he belonged to the CIA and he "confessed to stop the pain".

Ulrich Steinberg, director of the State Division of Local Government Services, said Friday's state board meeting was aimed at getting inside the city's operations.

The gentlemen's agreement was aimed at getting northern schools to follow that system when they played southern teams on the road and sometimes even at home.

Divestment campaigns typically have specific pressure points; the best-known effort, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, was aimed at getting companies to withdraw from South Africa to oppose apartheid.

But Ms. Regan said yesterday that the publication date of next Tuesday had been set early in the summer and was aimed at getting the book out in time for Christmas sales.

First Direct said the decision to temporarily withdraw its mortgages from sale was "not a funding issue", but was aimed at getting back to normal standards of customer service.

Those concerts were aimed at getting governments to act, rather than at collecting money.

Both deals are aimed at getting Microsoft software into set-top boxes.

They are aimed at getting it moved to an international court outside Iraq.

Auto-enrolment is aimed at getting everyone saving, and kicked off in autumn2012.

"The consultation is aimed at getting more responses from a wider pool".