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During the Bloody Sunday tribunal, a British agent codenamed "Infliction" alleged that McGuinness fired on the army just before members of 2Para fired on demonstrators, although another IRA informer – Willie Carlin – came out of hiding in 2001 to give evidence to Saville rejecting those allegations.
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While studying make-up with the famous Dick Smith, he got his first job for Infliction films on the movie Divided into Zero, a short film by Mitch Davis (co-founder of the Fantasia film festival).
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Since some people apparently don†™ t know the definition of “torture††¦ tor·ture n.a. Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.
Think Progress » Legal Advocate For Torture Being Considered For Top Judicial Post 2006
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How about the American Heritage dictionary: 1. Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.
How much waterboarding...? Steven Barnes 2007
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How about the American Heritage dictionary: 1. Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.
Archive 2007-10-01 Steven Barnes 2007
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Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of coercion to gain information.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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(END VIDEO CLIP) FOREMAN: The definition of torture is: Infliction of severe physical as a means of punishment or coercion.
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Infliction of loss on enemy forces, or support of own forces hard pressed, may always seem tempting immediate objectives in war.
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Infliction or expulsion was the alternative! and as the form of government was a despotism -- like all despotisms -- it was subject, at intervals, to great convulsions.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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The intelligence services were also unwilling to produce Infliction for cross-examination - or give a written statement, for the same reason.
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