Sentence examples for In chastisement from inspiring English sources

Pharaoh never spoke harshly to me, never wagged a finger in chastisement.

The trip is clearly a huge undertaking for Tom, whose anxiety reveals itself in his concern that they will not manage to contact Murdo's uncle, his fear they will miss buses, and in his chastisement of Murdo for forgetting his phone, assuming their relatives will provide towels, popping out to the shop… even for looking inside sandwiches.

In this respect, and arguably to his credit, the Bishop of Rome did at least restore to the Christian pantheon that threat of hell and its menace of the devil, most notably in his chastisement of the Calabrian mafia.

In Britain "reasonable chastisement" is allowed but parents have been prosecuted in excessive cases.

"Lo siento," Bonita said for the hundredth time, shaking her head in self-chastisement.

And a chastisement in there, too.

"I think there needs to be some chastisement in Nassau before we forgive them," Mr. McCall said.

This particular DWP cock-up represents an omnishambles worthy of The Thick of It, but there is also, to borrow the words of Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), something "disgraceful and sinister" about trying to trick people into believing in the benevolent chastisement of the state.

In a little-noticed recent episode, he allowed a three-star general to retire at rank despite that officer's serious chastisement in a Defense Inspector General report about the way the general handled his last billet.

The value of the euro hardly flinched in response to the chastisement of Germany, the single largest economy in the euro zone.

In fact, one of the first states to rescind the right of chastisement was Alabama, in 1871, in a case called Fulgham v. State.