(1) Adebolajo and his friends and family have claimed he was mistreated while in custody and harrassed by MI5 who wanted to turn him into an informer on his return but no evidence was presented to the committee in support of this.
(2) A few weeks ago, Jaczko was forced to take the extraordinary step of calling a press conference to deny harrassing female colleagues.
(3) This summary of the group's full report covers: 1) health care under apartheid; 2) medical education; 3) human rights violations and health professionals (including torture, hunger strikes and restrictions, harrassment of health professionals, the physician and the prison system, and the impact of detention on children); 4) the response of the medical community to human rights violations; and 5) concluding observations.
(4) She advised that your ex has commited criminal offences, of harassment, against the Protection of Harrassment Act 2003 and by cyber-stalking you (section 127 of the Communications Act 2003).
(5) The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.” Pao instituted measures against trolling and harrassment, causing resentment among many users and leading some to leave the site .
(6) There was little "eve-teasing" – as sexual harrassment is often euphemistically called in India – because fathers would unite to ensure anyone troubling their daughters stopped.
(7) Scores on the scales were also found to predict suicide precautions on the wards, harrassment of other patients as assessed from nursing notes, and indicators of violence on the wards.
(8) Harrassment did not appear to have affected the average number of abortions performed at large nonhospital facilities or the fee charged.
(9) Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said she was "deeply concerned" at the human rights situation in China , referring to the arrest, harrassment, sentencing and disappearance of lawyers, writers, artists and dissidents, and new restrictions imposed on foreign journalists.
(10) Since then, Chan has covered a range of stories, including several hard-hitting reports on secret "black jails" , the harrassment of Liu Xia , the wife of the Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, official corruption and the grief of families who lost children during the Sichuan earthquake .
(11) On Thursday the BBC published a report resulting from an internal inquiry into bullying and harrassment commissioned in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, which uncovered widespread allegations of bullying and an inadequate complaints procedure which meant whistleblowers' concerns often went unheeded.
(12) Because there were more senior members on the armed services committee there with us, I waited until the time was right and then I told them how pissed off I was because when they have the audacity to talk about a zero tolerance policy toward sexual harrassment and violence in the military when they aren't even close to being there, I get pissed off.
(13) The eyewitness also told the Guardian: "A girl was harrassed violently by basij militia in Valie Asr Square where she was pushed on the ground and was taken away."
(14) The level of harrassment in 1985 varied by type and size of provider, but no group was immune from such activity.
(15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have sent a legal letter alleging harrassment by a journalist, saying they suspected Prince George had been put “under surveillance”.
(16) "There is discussion for the first time of what it means to be a women here especially the systematic harrassment in the street, on buses and so on.
(17) Photographers have been harrassed , questioned , detained , arrested or worse , and declared to be unwelcome .
(18) More than half of the facilities experiencing any form of antiabortion harrassment also reported bomb threats (55-86%), loud demonstrations (52-84%), physical contact with or blocking of patients by picketers (59-83%), and distribution of antiabortion literature inside the facility (57-82%).
(19) Unemployment, lack of opportunity, police harrassment, and discrimination emerged as the dominant themes.
(20) 88% reported at least 1 type of harrassment during the year.
Torment
Definition:
(n.) An engine for casting stones.
(n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
(n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
(v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
(v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.
(v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
(v. t.) To put into great agitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(3) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(4) Yet the removal of two in-form goalscorers who were tormenting West Ham – first Aaron Lennon and then Lukaku – afforded the visitors the initiative.
(5) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(6) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(7) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.
(8) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
(9) In a torment of frustration, Mohammed stood outside the governor's and threw a can of petrol over himself.
(10) More than a quarter of hospital beds are occupied by people with dementia (no surprise to anyone who has been in hospital recently, where wards are full of men and women in great anxiety and torment) and they tend to stay for longer-than-average periods of time.
(11) Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose bipartisan bill will ensure a three-month extension of the federal benefits program, told the Guardian the measure would stimulate the economy and alleviate what he called the “mental torment” suffered by those long-term unemployed who now feel abandoned.
(12) It was only his inflexible determination, the quality that had made him a great general, that mastered the torments of ill-health – sleepless nights, fear of dying – to articulate his account for a devoted American audience.
(13) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
(14) Arsenal had no riposte to the blue and white striped waves that tormented them all evening.
(15) Father Michael, so brilliantly played by Sean Bean , was tormented by one such moment: his decision not to answer the phone to Helen Oyenusi (Muna Otaru) when she called to ask that he calm down her son.
(16) Suárez played as through affronted by the suggestion he might have fitness issues, tormenting England’s defence on a night that finished as a personal ordeal for Steven Gerrard.
(17) So often did John torment his elder brother – because, grouchy alcoholic prick that he was, he hated to acknowledge a debt – one has to wonder if he cast Francis in a minor part in Young Mr Lincoln simply to let him witness, day after day, his own signature role being forever obliterated by Henry Fonda's entrancing new reading.
(18) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
(19) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
(20) Adding to the torment for Rodgers was a 120-minute performance before hosting Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday at noon.