Motherboards and other circuit boards often use a # 6-32 UNC standoff . # 4-40 UNC thumb screws are often found on the ends of DVI, VGA, and older Serial and Parallel cables.
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Other times, prisoners endured sticks wrapped in barbed wire pulled across their bodies, thumb screws and guards each grabbing a leg and popping their crotches, as though splitting a chicken drumstick from the thigh.
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Bliss was left in the strong room for three weeks wearing a skullcap ( a heavy vice for the head ), thumb screws, iron collar, leg irons, and irons round his ankles called sheers.
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Webster said he would not support the use of torture, such as beatings with rubber hoses, thumb screws or other methods of inflicting pain that reportedly are used by some U . S . allies.
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On Metro-North, similar to other commuter lines, the doors can be opened by a lever; on most of its cars the lever is behind a labeled panel that is held in place by thumb screws.
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Supporters of the bill said a shocking stream of incidents, from the killing of Christians in Pakistan and the Sudan, to the torture of Tibetan Buddhist monks with serrated knives and thumb screws, was evidence that tougher measures are needed.
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Supporters of the legislation cite a shocking stream of incidents, from the killing of Christians in Pakistan and the Sudan, to the torture of Tibetan Buddhist monks with serrated knives and thumb screws, as evidence that tougher measures are needed.
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Granted, this is a show about high-tech cops putting the giga-bite on high-tech crime, a show where fingerprints are indeed as old-fashioned as thumb screws, but the only sign of life in the pilot episode comes from an actor _ Tim Guinee _ who won't be back next week.
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It had two square, tubular, fold-out legs, and a " drop panel " that acted both as support for the legs when standing ( via thumb screws that secured the panel to tabs on the back of the legs ) and also as a cover for the folded-in legs during transport.
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And for as many years, Washington and U . S . companies have refused to try to ease oppression, even by one thumb screw, by using America's far greater economic clout _ including the fact that Chinese sales to the U . S . dwarf America's sales to China by ever increasing billions.
