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In an interview for a UN Commission report issued last year, a former detainee at the Palestine branch described regular beatings, beatings with a hosepipe and cigarette burns.
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Clarissa Ward, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
With a hosepipe of cash from one of the world’s most crucial resources—hydrocarbons—the country has plowed tens of billions into foreign assets, some during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic while Wall Street was reeling.
—Byvivienne Walt, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
A few feet away in the grass were a couple of plastic jerricans, a length of hosepipe sticking out of one of them.
—Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
The boats are as close to the Angolan side of the river as can be, tethered to Congo by 50-foot ropes and pale hosepipes that pump air to the divers.
—Tom Wilson, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
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Clarissa Ward, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
With a hosepipe of cash from one of the world’s most crucial resources—hydrocarbons—the country has plowed tens of billions into foreign assets, some during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic while Wall Street was reeling.
—Byvivienne Walt, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
A few feet away in the grass were a couple of plastic jerricans, a length of hosepipe sticking out of one of them.
—Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
The boats are as close to the Angolan side of the river as can be, tethered to Congo by 50-foot ropes and pale hosepipes that pump air to the divers.
—Tom Wilson, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
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“Hosepipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hosepipe. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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