Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | employed
Facets:
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: during the middle ages
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Torture and the cruellest forms of punishment were employed.
text: Although torture was often employed to obtain confessions, this was not its only use.
text: Notice that Krauthammer’s maximal position in 2005 is now dead last in public opinion: his view that torture should be used extremely rarely commands less than 20 percent support and is beaten by those Americans who now believe that torture should be employed often.
text: Torture was frequently employed during the Middle Ages to punish criminals and extract confessions.