How To Use Torturer In A Sentence
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It is no accident that he seeking to recruit the torturers, hangmen and thugs of the old Baathist regime.
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Both of those cultures love torturers (just check out how the Spetznatz trains!) but in America torturing people (and waterboarding is torture, it is simulated drowning) is considered wrong by almost everybody, just like beating your wife is wrong.
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We must continue to work arduously for the release of so many other political prisoners whose names and faces are known but to their families and their torturers.
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In the literary genre, Sutherland recommends the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis's epistolatory novel of Christian apologetics; Letters to my Torturer, Iranian journalist Houshang Asadi's searing memoir of his 682 days in solitary confinement written in the form of letters to Brother Hamid, his torturer; and the remarkable website Letter to my Abuser, on which women can publish letters to their abusers.
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Why anyone would think that giving the state the power to be torturer in addition to being executioner is beyond me.
Think Progress » Imbalance of Powers.
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Looking at 18 USC 2340 (1) and (2) (d), and noting that under 18 USC 2340A, if death results in the course of torture, that the torturer is subject to the death penalty.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco
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Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb want to call torturers 'American heroes' and make light of waterboarding by calling it 'dunking' - ought to believe in making its use widespread.
Rational Review
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The torturer would then smash each limb and joint with the heavy, iron-enhanced wheel.
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A sapless soul one lacking strength is another way of the Decider calling the Democrats cowards, yet they are honored by the torturers presence and applaud his continued name calling.
Think Progress » Bush: Iraq war is “sapping our soul.”
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It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts.
Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
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During the Inquisition, the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack
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If the president pardons a convicted torturer is he “upholding” the law or “not upholding” the law?
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi
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Two assistants of the torturer bathed the lacerated shoulders of the culprit, applied to them some kind of unguent which immediately closed the wounds, and threw over his back a yellow cloth shaped like a chasuble; Pierrat Torterue meanwhile letting the blood drain from the lashes of his scourge in great drops on to the ground.
IV. A Tear for a Drop of Water. Book VI
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We are no longer in the presence of a torturer seizing upon a victim and enjoying her all the more because she is unconsenting and unpersuaded.
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And in case anyone thinks that my comments in the preceding paragraph are harsh, culturally imperialistic, or bigoted, consider this: After Apartheid was overturned in South Africa, after the black majority gained political power, came the issue of what to do with the worst of the torturers and suchlike from the days of Apartheid.
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Victims confronted their torturers directly.
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Their torturer, Maximian, took his own life in frustration when his at-tempts to execute the siblings failed.
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Augusto Pinochet was a dictator, murderer, torturer and money launderer.
Pinochet's legacy
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De la cintura para abajo (From the Waist Down, 1999) satirizes the boredom of a bourgeois couple who engage the services of an unemployed torturer after democracy is restored, to act as their sadomasochistic sexologist and help them solve their marital problems.
Diana Raznovich.
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Either way, the effect on the torturer is a moral and spiritual disaster.
When do the ends justify the means? Torture and the war against terror | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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* The judgment against Eichmann speaks to Bybee: Far from absolving him of guilt, his remoteness from the actual torturers — his thoughtlessness — increases the degree of his responsibility.
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During the early 1980s, he developed a reputation as a brutal torturer and interrogator.
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Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.
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What do you call a group of men clamoring to be the biggest torturer, that is the Republican field?
"If the gender game worked when Rick Lazio muscled into her space, why shouldn’t it work when Obama and Edwards muster some mettle?"
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“It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
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I wore my leather vest with a chain, my cheap-ass "executioner" mask, carried an axe and chained the flogger to my arm so it hung right at hand level, and went as a torturer.
Snow Queen
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Peel and disembowel your squirrel (purist torturers may wish to do this before the bludgeoning, as it can improve the flavour).
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Thankfully, Dick Cheney a master torturer can take his whips and water boards home with him as mementoes of his reign of terror.
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The subject of the torture will indeed tell the torturer anything he or she wants to here in order to stop the physical torture.
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Yet she also employed the services of her own pursuivant and torturer of Catholic priests, Richard Topcliffe.
Archive 2009-04-01
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[Former Uruguayan torturer Hugo] Garcia said that the men from the compania had not descended to the level that the Argentines had.
The Five Techniques
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Presumably, the chief harm to others in torturing animals that are the property of the torturer is psychic.
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A violent and sudden earthquake is said to have toppled a nearby hill, causing the torturers to flee in terror.
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Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.
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On the left, 2008 Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson, and on the right, Ghostbusters II villain Vigo the Carpathian, also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
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And, I hope, pass laws sooner rather than later to demilitarise the police; ban Tasers and rubber bullets; criminalise police and politician violence against free speech activities; demand prosecutions for financial fraud; compel the corporate books that unaccountably swallow billions in tax revenue to be audited; investigate torturers; bring home soldiers from corporate wars of choice – and rebuild society, this time from the grassroots up, accountably, lawfully and democratically.
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What the high court has done, however, is to at least bring the torturers within the orbit of the law, subject to some form of accountability and judicial restraint.
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I cannot go into the atrocities the torturers inflicted upon her.
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Finally, his valorisation of tolerance above all other things, is all too compatible with injustice (albeit that such a notion may not have the same ring in the minds of torturers as it will in the minds of victims).
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At least these torturers will be shamed and punished.
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The Bush legacy as a 21st century torturer is already cemented, but we've got a flip flop on waterboarding: A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed.
Now, top Bush official who approved waterboarding says it isn't legal
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There is nothing more demoralizing to the torturer, or more inspiring to the enemy he seeks to torture, than the sight of the tortured dying with a smile or even a blessing, physically broken but mentally unvanquished.
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Daniel made no effort to conceal his bootlessness when the guests rose to leave the table; without giving the astonishment of his companions a single thought, he once more drew the patent leather torturers on to his extremities.
Gänsemännchen. English
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The thing that distinguishes a torturer from a soldier is that the former faces no risk whatsoever of hurt in return, while the latter is always putting his own life at risk.
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The discipline of the guards is not very good. Sentry duty wearies them, for they must also serve as torturers, interrogators and perform the duties of kidnappers.
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Can he really believe that this depiction of extreme violence, with Roman torturers rejoicing at what they do, will somehow make the world a better place?
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One survivor described his torturers as devils incarnate.
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In Chile and in Argentina, the torturer was the friendly neighbor all along.
Think Progress » Limbaugh demeans American servicewomen.
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He was known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
YesButNoButYes Stories
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The desire to talk was like some fantastic hunger; they were my torturers, keeping the food just beyond reach.
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Regarding Philadelphia Eagles quarterback -- and convicted dogfighter Michael Vick -- Kipnis spits, "Each new scandal winds up being a referendum on our shifting social norms, norms so in flux that even animal-torturers (Michael Vick) can win their way back into sports fans 'hearts with nothing more than a brief, state-imposed exile and a better passing game.
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Of course it's not Ali's support for 'the resistance', the cheerful catch-all for the Saddamite fascists, the mosque-bombers, trade unionist torturers and the head-choppers, which is the problem.
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These children are also traumatized . One in every five Iraqi registered in Syria as a victim of torturer or extreme violence.
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An insubordinate cuss, he knows that insubordination becomes an admirable trait in an age when the torturer's first line of defense is that he was merely following orders.
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More than pain, they recall smoldering contempt for their torturers.
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Today, a torturer is likely to equip himself with non-specialized, dual-use items like a baseball bats, cables, iron pipes, pliers, sticks, and maybe a hook on the ceiling for the strappado (suspension by the wrists, tied behind the back).
Russ Wellen: What Is It with Men and Torture?
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The primary premise of any torturer is that the victim is guilty.
Think Progress » Fox News: “Why All The Fuss About Torturing People?”
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Trina, a smart, beautiful and sweet teenage daughter becomes abusively profane and violent; she is both tortured and the torturer.