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He found deeply disturbing images of the torturous acts that were taking place during the night shift at Abu Ghraib.

Anh ta tìm thấy những hình ảnh vô cùng đáng lo ngại về những hành vi tra tấn đang diễn ra trong ca đêm ở Abu Ghraib.

Yet he had but a torturous time of it, and was still "the lad who felt like a fish out of water."

But I intend to see that Nell's has no such torturous operation performed on it if I can appeal to you or convince her."

Nhưng tôi có ý định đảm bảo rằng Nell's không thực hiện ca phẫu thuật đau đớn nào như vậy nếu tôi có thể kêu gọi anh hoặc thuyết phục cô ấy."

The paths, though very steep and very torturous, are smooth enough for horses to go up, though the peasants themselves very seldom use horses.

Những con đường tuy rất dốc và rất quanh co nhưng vẫn đủ bằng phẳng cho ngựa đi lên, mặc dù bản thân nông dân rất hiếm khi dùng ngựa.

Between the time of registration into the camp and death, prisoners were subjected to a number of demeaning and torturous ordeals.

He also proposed to end the torturous procedures of segregation of fans of opposing teams, which had been implemented at most stadiums to discourage hooliganism.

On the other hand, it can be a prison of our own making that becomes more torturous the longer we stay holed up in there.

The hush holding it was like the drawn breath of a victim waiting the first turn of the torturous wheel.

Therefore, it does not challenge the use of the death penalty directly but rather the sentence of death after a torturous period of delay.

"O! spirit of my father, this may not atone; but I must pay also in shame and torturous self-contempt for my heavy guilt."

With hardly an exception they were in favor of Smith’s death by the usual torturous methods.

On the charge of insanity a perfectly sane man may be kept for years, even to the hour of his death, in awful, torturous confinement.