When an interviewer has a preconceived notion as to the truth of the matter being investigated, the questioning is conducted in a manner to extract statements that support these beliefs.

The third degree is a euphemism for the "inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements".

Mr. Jennings is less successful at extracting pious statements from Bob Dole, who has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in tobacco money during his long career.

The official, Kang Min Chang, said at a news conference that the student "suffocated to death" Wednesday when his throat was pressed against the edge of a bathtub as the two officers stuck his head into the water in an effort to extract statements.

In a separate case one policeman is in charge of a case where there are allegations of police brutality and pressure being used to extract statements.

One new argument is that prosecutors abused the grand jury process to extract statements from likely defense witnesses that might be used later to attack the case by the defense.

Then one must extract the principles, analogies and statements by various courts of what they consider important to determine how the next court is likely to rule on the facts of the present case.

They observed police interrogation tactics and reported that "the inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements... is widespread throughout the country".

In that brief, and in Microsoft's offering today, both sides extracted isolated moments or statements from the long antitrust trial to support the view that the two cases should or should not remain joined for appeal.

And, as a professor would, he offered me some guidance: "It is very easy to extract statements with torture.