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See: abridgment, absence, attachment, censorship, condemnation, constraint, conversion, curtailment, defeasance, deficiency, detriment, discipline, disqualification, disseisin, distress, escheatment, expense, expropriation, expulsion, foreclosure, forfeiture, injury, loss, misappropriation, omission, ouster, paucity, penalty, pillage, privation, punishment, rejection, restriction, sacrifice, sanction, sequestration, spoliation, taking DEPRIVATION, ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. Vide Ayliffe's Parerg. 206; 1 Bl. Com. 393. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Others depict connective tissue zones, somatic abnormalities, muscle trigger points, and areas of sensory deprivation. By the 1950s, they were helping to conduct Cold War studies on interrogation that included experiments with sensory deprivation and hallucinogens meant to serve as "truth serum" (LSD, for example)--and developed techniques used by the CIA to torture prisoners in Latin America in the 1980s. Beatings, extended isolation and restraint, public humiliation, food deprivation, sleep deprivation, forced exercise to the point of exhaustion, sensory deprivation, and lengthy maintenance of stress positions are common. |
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