What's the difference between waterboard and windward?
Waterboard
Definition:
(n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a previous statement , following the damning Senate report on the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) such as waterboarding, Emmerson pointed out that the UN convention against torture required states to prosecute acts of torture where there was sufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction.
(2) Although he didn’t personally witness the waterboarding or zipping, he had on two or three occasions witnessed asylum seekers walking out of a tent wet and coughing up water.
(3) The senior officials signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al-Qaida suspects - whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to waterboarding.
(4) Support for waterboarding would not undercut such advocacy, he insisted.
(5) He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there had been and still were "real plots", but added that "we're not convinced" that waterboarding produced information which was "instrumental in preventing these plots coming to fruition and murdering people".
(6) The forward propulsion of the programme was such that viewers could hardly help themselves: their adrenaline pumping, they found themselves urging Bauer to waterboard suspected terrorists, if that's what was needed to stop the ticking bomb.
(7) A footnote to another 2005 justice department memo released last week said waterboarding was used both more frequently and with a greater volume of water than the CIA rules permitted.
(8) This is no surprise as the probe was limited to unauthorised acts, and could not examine authorised acts like waterboarding.
(9) It is absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding,” he said.
(10) When he could tell that Lauer was about to ask a question he didn't like – why didn't he replace Rumsfeld after the Abu Ghraib scandal, what did he think when even Republicans were criticising the surge in 2006, didn't he get only the legal advice that said what he wanted it to – Bush's response, every time, was a self-defensive smile (which looked particularly weird when Lauer was reeling off details of waterboarding), followed by overly expansive hand gestures and, finally, sharp aggression shutting the question down.
(11) She has insisted that information obtained by waterboarding did not play a significant role in the search for Bin Laden.
(12) Presented with Trump’s statement that he would go beyond waterboarding, Burr simply replied: “I would not support bringing back waterboarding.” Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump surrogate who sits on the Senate armed services committee, sought to downplay some of the billionaire’s more outlandish comments on torture and targeting the families of terrorists.
(13) The US Justice Department memos released last Thursday showed that waterboarding, which the US now admits is torture, was used 83 times on the alleged al-Qaida senior commander Abu Zubaydah, the paper said.
(14) Though Barack Obama has banned US agencies from using forms of torture such as waterboarding, Pakistani questioning techniques are frequently brutal.
(15) The US government has acknowledged that he was subject to "waterboarding", an interrogation technique that simulates drowning, and it is unclear whether statements he has made while in US custody would be used against him in civilian trial.
(16) Vice President Dick Cheney: "The driving force behind the establishment of illegal detention and interrogation policies, chairing key meetings at which specific CIA operations were discussed, including the waterboarding of one detainee, Abu Zubaydah, in 2002."
(17) If they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding,” Trump told NBC’s Today Show .
(18) In 2009, for example, he said he believed that “waterboarding”, one of several controversial interrogation methods used by US intelligence agencies during George W Bush’s administration, constituted torture, and that “whatever legal rationales were used, it was a mistake”.
(19) And he revealed that he would disobey orders if Trump ordered him to use waterboarding, and that most in the agency were also opposed.
(20) The new prime minister appoints as finance minister the radical economist Yanis Varoufakis , who has described austerity programmes as “fiscal waterboarding”.
Windward
Definition:
(n.) The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
(a.) Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.
(adv.) Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimated number of dengue infections in the Windward Islands was about 20,000.
(2) The genetic differentiation mainly due to genetic drift and founder effect between France and this isolate and between the Leeward (parish of Gustavia) and Windward (parish of Lorient) areas within the island is discussed.
(3) This is the windward coast, so the water is seldom calm enough for swimming, but just north of the hotel lies a small, empty beach dotted with shells.
(4) aegypti, is amply available in the Windward and Leeward islands of the Antilles.
(5) Reefs of the windward Southeast Hawaiian Islands, US Management is improving around the main Hawaiian islands such as Oahu and Maui, but over-fishing and organic sediment from plantations remain major threats.
(6) Dew-point sensors recorded temperatures under the garments at ambient and chest (windward site) and midscapular sites.
(7) A survey of microfilaraemia among the population of Vanua Levu, Taveuni and Koro islands in northern Fiji was conducted in 1968 and 1969 as a prelude to a campaign of mass treatment with diethylcarbamazine.The prevalences of microfilaraemia were found in the more moist conditions of Taveuni and Koro and on the windward southern side of Vanua Levu to be higher than on the drier northern side of Vanua Levu.