Sentence examples for chastisement is from inspiring English sources

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

The studies instead show that physical chastisement is correlated with multiple adverse effects on children, some of which are serious and may persist into adulthood.

The morals are that, taken to its extreme, physical chastisement is actually physical abuse and I have never understood where you can draw the line between one and the other.

To pull fast ones like these and get off scot free, without chastisement, is the ultimate ego trip.

Chastisement is only effective in the exact moment of the behavior.

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

Domestic chastisement was once considered legitimate discipline of one's wife and marital rape was excluded from the definition of rape in many criminal law statutes.

Abstinence, fasting "and afflictions and corporal chastisements" were their daily practice.

His questions and chastisements are cheered by those who agree with him; some reporters go directly to him with their complaints about coverage.

Also, banks, leery of loan losses and the Fed's chastisements, are cutting off small-business and other marginal borrowers; second-tier commercial-paper borrowers are being squeezed out.

It winces with liberal self-chastisement: Redford is surely smart enough to realize, as the professor turns his ire on those who merely chatter while Rome burns, that his movie is itself no better, or more morally effective, than high-concept Hollywood fiddling.