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Перевод: thumbscrew
[существительное]
винт-барашек ; винт с накатанной головкой; тиски для больших пальцев
Тезаурус:
- Nicholas Winterton, MP for Macclesfield, a thorn in the Whips' side, attacked their "thumbscrew" tactics.
- It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions, for example the rack and thumbscrew, which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country, are abhorrent to any civilised society, but that they and other less awful, though not necessarily less potent, means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth.
- The notion of a "good thumbscrew" is troublesome if the meaning of "good" is not exhausted by "efficient" and if, but only if, "good" necessarily imports some generalized conception of human welfare.
- If one operates with such a material concept of "good" then the idea of a "good thumbscrew" is a contradiction in terms.
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