Sentence examples for chastisement in from inspiring English sources

And a chastisement in there, too.

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

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.

As the scandal continues to unravel, it has produced numerous musings and self-chastisements in Japan and overseas.

From the dais, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in her waning days as presiding officer, summoned "the gentleman from New York" to the well of the House to hear a chastisement unheard in 27 years, not since the July day in 1983 when the House delivered bipartisan shame to a Republican and a Democrat who had had dalliances with 17-year-old pages.

Germany was also singled out for chastisement elsewhere in the president's speech.

The chastisement came in Boyle's Hydrostatical Discourse of 1672.

In section 58, it said parents and those acting in loco parentis could no longer use the defence of "reasonable chastisement" if they were charged with assault causing actual bodily harm or cruelty.

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

Investment Banks in the Cross Hairs Chancellor Leo E. Strine Jr.'s chastisement of Goldman Sachs in his opinion for the Delaware Court of Chancery about the El Paso deal will leave other investment bankers with schadenfreude.

Yet, in keeping with the name of the organization, any chastisement has been kept "in-house".