Sentence examples for acceptable forms of punishment from inspiring English sources

Check with the owner about the dog's behaviour and acceptable forms of punishment (if it misbehaves).

Last June, Judge Elsa Alcala, of the C.C.A., called for her court "to reconsider whether the death penalty remains a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment under the current Texas scheme".

The assumption underlying Scalia's comment is that the original understanding of the 8th Amendment endorsed flogging as an acceptable form of punishment.

Many in the kingdom regard them as an acceptable form of punishment for grave crimes.

The majority of Bangladeshi men feel that a wife is accountable to her husband for her behavior and that violence is an acceptable form of corrective punishment (27).

There were two acceptable forms of jihad, or holy war.

Discuss acceptable forms of communication.

For a list of acceptable documents, see Equifax's Acceptable Forms of Identification page.

The capital punishment opinion came in 1994, when Judge Beezer, writing for the majority in a 6-to-5 decision, said that hanging was an acceptable form of execution.

And, if so, was this an acceptable form of gamesmanship?

Human muscle is the only acceptable form of propulsion.