self-suspension

[self″sus-pen´shun]

suspension of the body by the head and axillae for the purpose of stretching the vertebral column.

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"They, not the chest or belly injuries, are consistent with the explanation of self-suspension and subsequent collapse."

Wife was strangled and had 30 rib fractures, murder trial told

"I accept the cause of death as hanging and I will record Mr Whiteside died from the effects of self-suspension in conditions which are uncertain."

Man had mental health issues before his death

'The defendant had been put on permanent self-suspension. He has over 100 lawyers in his firm.

Rickey Tarfa seeks N500m as damages from EFCC

Senior IOC member Patrick Hickey, who has also vehemently denied any wrongdoing, has imposed a self-suspension since he was involved in an IrishOlympicCommittee ticket scandal and in September resigned from the IOC Executive Board.

IOC suspends Brazil's Nuzman after arrest over vote-buying allegations

Todays action to suspend all fresh beef shipments from Brazil supersedes the self-suspension.

United States : Perdue: USDA Halting Import of Fresh Brazilian Beef

In sections on concurrent programming concepts, real-time scheduling analysis, and advanced topics they discuss such topics as deadlock, interprocess communication based on shared variables, network communication, self-suspension and schedulability analysis, and internal structures and operating principles of Linux real-time extensions.

Real-time embedded systems; open-source operating systems perspective

It read: "He died as a result of self-suspension Speed as Wales captain but the evidence does not sufficiently determine whether this was intentional or accidental."

He died hours after row with wife; Coroner says 42-year-old's death may have been an accident

He added: "He died as a result of self-suspension but the evidence doesn't sufficiently determine whether this was intentional or accidental."

Four days before Gary died, he sent me text about taking his life; SHEARER'S SHOCK AT HANGING HORROR Speed's wife tells inquest of marriage problems

Graham Smith Suffering self-suspension Yet another albatross to hand around racing's neck.

CHAT ROOM

Mr Hinchliff recorded a verdict of unlawful killing over Ms Tadesse's death last March, and said Mr Asfaw killed himself by "self-suspension".

DAD KILLED MY MUM.. THEN KILLED HIMSELF; What girl, 10, told cops after grim find

It offers too what Levine calls "serious pleasures": just as novel readers took pleasure in both the anticipation and the postponement of plot resolution, so did seekers of knowledge experience "pleasure in ignorance" (9), "the joy of self-suspension." In short, what this book explores is the union of "a skeptical realist epistemology with a suspenseful narrative form" in Victorian literary, scientific, and philosophical texts (12).

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt

Cecchi Gori's self-suspension, according to sources, came after his creditor banks -- which include Merrill Lynch, Banca di Roma and Monte dei Paschi -- forced him to give up management of the group.