As part of the purges following Liu Ying's downfall, thousands of his supposed adherents were arrested and implicated each other under torture.

Public torture and execution was a method the sovereign deployed to express his or her power, and it did so through the ritual of investigation and the ceremony of execution — the reality and horror of which was supposed to express the omnipotence of the sovereign but actually revealed that the sovereign's power depended on the participation of the people.

What is called the " Chinese water torture " was a torture described by Hippolytus de Marsiliis in the 16th century that was supposed to drive its victim insane with the stress of water dripping on a part of the forehead for a very long time.

They took 40 of them to Logroño and burnt at the stake 12 supposed witches in Zugarramurdi ( 5 of them symbolically, as they had been killed by torture earlier ).

The trial was also notable in that it was the first Soviet show trial at which the defendants " confessed " their supposed crimes, including co-operating with the Prime Minister of France Raymond Poincaré ( all the confessions were extracted through various torture methods ).

Laetus, who was still in Venice at the time the supposed conspiracy was discovered, was sent back to Rome, imprisoned and put to the torture, but refused to plead guilty to the charges of infidelity and immorality.

Jäckel went on to accuse Nolte of engaging in a post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument to establish the " causal nexus " between Hitler's supposed fear of the " rat cage " torture, and the Holocaust.

Of course, grave guiltiness may be imputed to the military action of any nation, or to the action of any leader or leaders, which for any supposed good `` permits '', in this sense, the termination of the human race by human action.

Likewise there has been long debate on how perception of beauty in the natural world, especially perception of the human form as beautiful, is supposed to relate to perceiving beauty in art or artefacts.

In other cases the change is supposed to be made for the purposes of evil magic and human victims are not prohibited.

However, the myth more likely stems from one of the supposed powers of the boto ( wherein it changes its shape into that of a human ) rather than a man changing his form into that of an animal.

The use and meaning of the word " philosophy " has changed throughout history: in Antiquity it encompassed almost any inquiry ; for Descartes it was supposed to be the Queen of the Sciences, a sort of ultimate justification ; in the time of David Hume " metaphysics " and " morals " could be roughly translated as the human sciences ; and contemporary analytic philosophy likes to define itself roughly as inquiry into concepts.

The Greek city of Panopeus had a cult statue that was supposed to honor Prometheus for having created the human race there.

Layouts and an " evolved " human ( meaning someone who has undergone expensive genetic treatments by a German " doctor " which are supposed to push the client " forward " on an evolutionary scale, and which result in gross physical, as well as mental, modifications ), hears rumors that Eldritch discovered an alien hallucinogen in the Prox system with similar properties to CAN-D, and that he plans to market it as " Chew-Z ," with U. N. approval, on off-world colonies.

At around the same time, the findings of Vesalius corrected the previous anatomical teachings of Galen, which were based upon the dissection of animals even though they were supposed to be a guide to the human body.

The Mismeasure of Man is a critical analysis of the early works of scientific racism about the supposed, biologically inherited ( genetic ) basis for human intelligence, such as craniometry, the measurement of skull volume and its relation to intellectual faculties.

And remember, since God is supposed to be just a mind, without a body, that we shouldn't imagine a human being sitting there and looking like he's concentrating hard just before this tree pops into existence.

The former, which involves natural language analysis and understanding, is supposed to be carried out semi-automatically ( i. e., in a computer-aided human basis ); the latter is expected to be done fully automatically.

** The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.

: The Poem of my Friend has indeed great defects ; first, that the principal person has no distinct character, either in his profession of Mariner, or as a human being who having been long under the control of supernatural impressions might be supposed himself to partake of something supernatural ; secondly, that he does not act, but is continually acted upon ; thirdly, that the events having no necessary connection do not produce each other ; and lastly, that the imagery is somewhat too laboriously accumulated.

Zola bases his optimism on innéité and on the supposed capacity of the human race to make progress in a moral sense.

The development of this soil allowed agriculture and silviculture in the previously hostile environment ; meaning that large portions of the Amazon rainforest are probably the result of centuries of human management, rather than naturally occurring as has previously been supposed.

When the human prisoners are threatened by the Ewoks, Luke levitates the droid above the crowd as demonstration of the supposed god's ability, so as to prompt release.

The Master is supposed to have died during the events of " Last of the Time Lords "; shortly after having his plans of universal conquest foiled by the Doctor and his companion Martha Jones, the Master was shot by his human wife Lucy Saxon.

According to Sergio Caruso, when talking of Homo economicus, one should distinguish between the purely “ methodological ” versions, aimed at practical use in the economic sphere ( e. g. economic calculus ), and the ” anthropological ” versions, more ambitiously aimed at depicting a certain type of man ( supposed to be actually existing ), or even human nature in general.

Augustine of Hippo referred to the legend in his book The City of God as an example of how the pagan gods are supposed to have delighted in human sensual pleasures.

It is conceptually a counter-image of the supposed miseries of human civilization, and in paradise there is only peace, prosperity, and happiness.

In Velikovsky's case, these interplanetary collisions were supposed to have taken place within the span of human existence, whereas for Sitchin these occurred during the early stages of planetary formation, but entered the mythological account passed down via the alien race which purportedly evolved on Nibiru after these encounters.

Schwartz said that the car was no more fire-prone than other cars of the time, that its fatality rates were lower than comparably sized imported automobiles, and that the supposed " smoking gun " document that plaintiffs said demonstrated Ford's callousness in designing the Pinto was actually a document based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulations about the value of a human life — rather than a document containing an assessment of Ford's potential tort liability.

It dealt with the appearance of mountains and the antiquity of the human race, explained the six days of the Mosaic creation as epochs preceding the actual state of the globe, and attributed the deluge to the filling up of cavities supposed to have been left void in the interior of the earth.

Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods, spirits or the deceased, for example as a propitiatory offering, or as a retainer sacrifice when the King's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life.

At these festivals they sacrificed a bull, a sow, and a sheep, which, before the sacrifice, were led in procession thrice around the fields ; whence the feast is supposed to have taken its name, ambio, I go round, and arvum, field.

The sacred king, the human embodiment of the dying and reviving vegetation god, was supposed to have originally been an individual chosen to rule for a time, but whose fate was to suffer as a sacrifice, to be offered back to the earth so that a new king could rule for a time in his stead.

All of these elements are followed eloquently by Pope in that specific order: Belinda readies herself for the card game ( which includes a description of her hair and beauty ), the Baron makes a sacrifice for her hair ( the altar built for love and the deal with Clarissa ), the “ mock ” battle of cards changes in the Baron ’ s favor, Clarissa ’ s treachery to her supposed friend Belinda by slipping the Baron scissors, and finally the brilliant treatment of the card game as a battle and the Baron ’ s victory.

In 363 The Christian Viktor of Xanten is supposed to have been executed together with 360 further members of the Theban Legion near the modern town of Birten, as they refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.

The women who had to sacrifice themselves were supposed to be lower class.

:" As far as she was concerned, Tito was a war and communist party deity for whom everyone was supposed to sacrifice everything they had.

Clitophon witnesses this supposed sacrifice and goes to commit suicide on Leucippe's grave, but it in fact turns out that she is still alive, the sacrifice having been staged by his captured friends using theatrical props.

It is supposed that the Athena temple located on the acropolis terrace above it may have been its cultic point of reference, and the altar possibly served solely as a place of sacrifice.

This is exactly what was supposed to happen and O ' Connell's sacrifice keeps the timeline on track.

Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.

Includes alleged leakage of supposed " rushes " and " early trailers " of film scenes.

Although he survived these attempts on the throne, his early death in 1034 was supposed to have been due to poison administered by his wife, though it has also been alleged that he was drowned in a bath on his wife's orders.

The principal members of the alleged " murder " were all of Group V ( Jakarta ) and not based in Jayapura nor West Papua, and the " supposed ring-leader Let-Col Hatono got three and a half years jail and two other officers were not even discharged.

It has been alleged by an 1881 writer, who however cites no instances, that the supposed presence of the Wandering Jew has occasionally been used as a pretext for incursions by Gentiles into Jewish quarters during the late Middle Ages, when the legend was accepted as fact.

Idries Shah, who was personal secretary and close friend of Gerald Gardner, provides yet another etymology from an alleged Arabic al-dhammé " blood-letter ", which was supposed to be the ritual knife of a medieval magical cult of Morocco and Andalusia.

Tourist attractions are also created to capitalise on legends such as a supposed UFO crash site near Roswell, New Mexico and the alleged Loch Ness monster sightings in Scotland.

The abrupt and unexpected nature of his death led to some speculation that foul play might have been involved, the most popular conspiracy theory involving a supposed KGB plot to ensure that Wilson ( alleged by the supporters of these theories to be a KGB agent himself ) became prime minister.

In some cases, this was alleged to be a type of communication: the supposed spirits answered questions by controlling the movements of objects so as to pick out letters to form words, or simply indicate " yes " or " no.

Majestic 12 ( or MJ-12 ) is the supposed code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U. S. President Harry S. Truman.

Without specifically naming Meyerbeer, he interpreted the popular success of the latter as the undermining of German music by alleged Jewish venality and willingness to cater to the lowest tastes, and attributed the supposed poor quality of such ' Jewish music ' to Jewish speech and song patterns, which ' though the cultured son of Jewry takes untold pains to strip them off, nevertheless they shew an impertinent obstinacy in cleaving to him '.

Protestant writers alleged that the Culdees had preserved Celtic Christianity, free from supposed Roman corruptions, in one remote corner of western Europe.

" The book's content is throughout suggestive of courtly scandal, and the aura of scandal is skillfully elaborated through the effective use of initials and posies — Latin or English tags supposed to denote particular authors — in place of the real names of actual or alleged authors.

Some people believe that there may be a lake monster, similar to the one alleged to live in Loch Ness, and anomalous photos have been taken of the supposed creature ;, it has been affectionately nicknamed " Bownessie.

The only conspiracy theories about Yasser Arafat allegedly being murdered have been made by a few Palestinian figures, and have involved alleged poisoning that was supposed to have been on the orders of Israeli officials.

A pond on the outskirts of town, known as the Witch Pool, was where the supposed witches were meant to have been drowned but the alleged pool was in fact the mill pond of the 19th Century Meikle Mill.

Cavaignac called upon the government to publish a document " both decisive and without danger " — the alleged report of Gonse upon the supposed avowals of Dreyfus to Lebrun-Renault.

Schlesinger wrote books such as The Vital Center, championing a supposed " center " of politics within which " mainstream " political discourse takes place, and underscoring the alleged need for societies to draw definite lines regarding what falls outside of this acceptability.

The alleged similarity between the " extreme left " and " extreme right ", or perhaps between different religious " zealots ", may mean only that all these are " unacceptable " from the standpoint of a supposed mainstream or majority.

The media quoted some of Hancock's former Council of Europe's liberal group colleagues as saying that in the 2000s Hancock would usually come to their regular private gatherings alongside a series of young Russian and Ukrainian women-in spite of protests by some of those ; Hancock's former colleagues said they had witnessed his alleged assistants using the computers of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the liberal group secretariat, which were supposed to be protected by a password ; apparently his ' assistants ' knew the password.

The name comacini Romantic historians of the nineteenth century traced to the location where they supposedly had their headquarters, the minute Isola Comacina in Lake Como, alleged to have been a safe haven during the Lombard invasion ; a more inventive etymology derives from a supposed Latin expression cum machinis, referring to their tools.

Proponents of the Temporal Single System Interpretation ( TSSI ) of Marx's value theory claim that the supposed inconsistencies are actually the result of misinterpretation ; they argue that when Marx's theory is understood as " temporal " and " single-system ," the alleged internal inconsistencies disappear.

It is supposed to make an annual report to OMB, available to the public, that includes all complaints that the Act was violated, such as use of records for unauthorized reasons or the holding of First Amendment Records and report on —…"( v ) any violations of matching agreements that have been alleged or identified and any corrective action taken ”.

Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt blamed the group for agitating racist Arabism sentiments among Arabs and inciting violence during street riots in Antwerp in 2002 and criticized it for creating patrols to shadow policemen with video cameras to monitor for alleged acts of supposed " anti-Arab racism ".