third-degree methods

  • 1third degree —    police violence to extract information    Probably from the scale of seriousness of burns, of which the third degree is the worst.    Also as third:     A veritable catalogue of police third degree methods is contained in a recent (February… …

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  • 2third degree — n: the grade given to the third most serious forms of crimes third–degree adj Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. third degree …

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  • 3Third Culture Kids — (abbreviated TCKs or 3CKs ) (aka. Global Nomad ) refers to someone who [as a child] has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his or her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth… …

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  • 4Third generation warfare — is a term created by the U.S. military in 1989, referring to the tactics of warfare used after the Wehrmacht s development of the blitzkrieg. Third generation war focuses on using speed and surprise to bypass the enemy s lines and collapse their… …

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  • 5Methods of computing square roots — There are several methods for calculating the principal square root of a nonnegative real number. For the square roots of a negative or complex number, see below. Contents 1 Rough estimation 2 Babylonian method 2.1 Example …

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  • 6Third Mate — Infobox shipping job name = Third mate othernames = Third officer photo = Life vest.jpg photo department = Deck department licensed = Yes epoch = location = watch at sea = Mate on watch watch at sea time = 8 12, 20 24 watch in port = Mate on… …

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  • 7Selection methods in plant breeding based on mode of reproduction — This article discusses Selection methods in plant breeding based on mode of reproduction. Some plants reproduce by (more or less strict) self fertilization where pollen from a plant will fertilise reproductive cells or ovules of the same plant.… …

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  • 8AGRICULTURAL LAND-MANAGEMENT METHODS AND IMPLEMENTS IN ANCIENT EREẒ ISRAEL — Ereẓ Israel is a small country with a topographically fragmented territory, each geographical region having a distinctive character of its own. These regions include: the coastal plain, the lowlands, the hilly country, the inland valleys, the… …

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  • 9Non-invasive intracranial pressure measurement methods — Increased intracranial pressure (ICP) is one of the major causes of secondary brain ischemia that accompanies a variety of pathological conditions, most notably, traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and intracranial hemorrhages. However, aside… …

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  • 10Pepys, Samuel — born Feb. 23, 1633, London, Eng. died May 26, 1703, London English diarist and public official. Born into a humble family, Pepys was appointed about 1659 as a clerk in the office of the Exchequer, where on Jan. 1, 1660, he began the diary for… …

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