Sentence examples for chastisement for from inspiring English sources

"chastisement for" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used when discussing punishment or discipline for wrongdoing or misbehavior. Example: The student received a severe chastisement for cheating on the exam.

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As chastisement for the Graveses' inexplicable good fortune, people shun them — their envy, as Dr. Johnson put it, "poisoning the banquet which they cannot taste".

And more recently, the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations.

Hammarberg said: "Children have less protection than adults when it comes to abuse". He said the defence of "reasonable chastisement" for adults who hit children should be scrapped.

Violent corporal punishments, including execution, are now the required form of chastisement for a wide range of crimes, ranging from adultery to alcohol consumption.

Such is the desperation here for the national team to win that there has been barely a word of chastisement for the Australia captain.

(That disaster was averted, but the Vicomte was expelled from his club, the aristocratic Jockey — a serious chastisement for a Noailles).

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Writer visited Mrs. Garcia & listened as she reflected on her life: her faith in God, her deference to her husband & joy in their children & grandchildren, the family's suffering during the Depression, her self-chastisement for pride, the pain when 2 of her 4 sons were killed.

Misadventures which the world ascribes to fortune, fate or the malice of our superhuman guardians will always in fact be trials of virtue, chastisements for sin (perhaps forgotten) or correctives to hidden injustice.

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.

His works were reproduced and given to physicians across the nation, serving as both a chastisement of current medical protocols for the insane and a call for further innovation in the field (a charge that Smith, Kline, and French intended to lead).

They liked to imagine the inhabitants of the new continent "as denizens of a golden age of sylvan innocence, or as implausibly superior savages moral exempla for the implicit chastisement of civilised vice".When they described hostile natives as friendly traders, Vespucci and his fellow explorers served their vested interests.

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