Sentence examples for a method of punishment from inspiring English sources

The corvée differs from forced labour in being a general and periodic short-term obligation; forced labour is usually prescribed for a long or indefinite period as a method of punishment or of discrimination.

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It was reported that the relationship between FHCs and CHCs was based on audits, and that the loss of a team approach had turned these audits into just a method of punishment.

The legality of potassium acetate is not at all clear, let alone its effectiveness as a method of capital punishment. .

In a lot of discourse surrounding ways to punish criminals, that question comes up is a particular method of punishment too vicious or strange to consider?

"Corporal punishment is just not an effective method of punishment, especially for disabled children, who may not even understand why they're being hit," said Alice Farmer, who wrote the report.

Boiling, in the history of punishment, a method of execution commonly involving a large container of heated liquid such as water, oil, molten lead, wax, tallow, or wine, into which a convicted prisoner was placed until he died.

(A judge ordered the filming of the execution of Robert Alton Harris, who was put to death in California in 1992, to provide evidence for future appeals of the gas chamber as a method of cruel and unusual punishment, but the same judge ordered the tape destroyed several months later).

"This method of punishment will lead to a stronger reaction.

I knocked on the door and McGuinness opened it on crutches, making a not very funny joke about kneecapping, the IRA's favoured method of punishment.

Because Gabi is married to a gangster (Mads Mikkelsen), Charlie finds himself entangled with Romanian mobsters whose preferred method of punishment is to attach enemies to one another with superglue that rips off their skin if they try to unstick themselves.