Sentence examples for corrective purpose from inspiring English sources

The 20th-century French philosopher Henri Bergson shared this view of the corrective purpose of laughter; specifically, he felt, laughter is intended to bring the comic character back into conformity with his society, whose logic and conventions he abandons when "he slackens in the attention that is due to life".

Moreover, this paper demonstrates the association between violence in childhood and adolescence in the FOO and belief in the use of violence for corrective purpose.

Jake Goldenfein, researcher at the Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne, tells me it's important to remember the corrective purposes of Bentham's panopticon when considering it as a metaphor for modern surveillance.

This particular relationship between parents and children is evident in the comment 'I gave life to you, and so I can take it away' and in the proverbs 'When you beat the mother, the baby grows' and 'Beat the child to make him a man'; such comments and sayings are frequently used by Romanian parents for corrective purposes.

The proportion of subjects who agreed with the statement that violence against woman was acceptable for corrective purposes was greater among those who had witnessed violence between their parents (chi-square = 12,730, p < 0.001) and among those who had been physically beaten within their FOO (chi-square = 22.901, p < 0.001; Table  3).

The proportion of subjects who perceived the family as an unfriendly environment and of those who agreed with violence against woman for corrective purposes was over two-fold among those that had witnessed domestic violence between their parents and those that were beaten within their FOO.

Although there are "hygiene rooms" in the dormitories, there is also "general hygiene room" with a corrective and punitive purpose.

One version is a supporting device worn over the leg that is used for corrective or rehabilitation purposes.

Although there are hygiene rooms in the dorm units, a 'general hygiene room' has been set up for corrective and punitive purposes.

Phacoemulsification followed by intraocular lens (IOL) implantation is a worldwide proven surgical procedure for cataract extraction; 1 2 consequently, this procedure is being used not only for cataract lens replacements but also for visual corrective or refractive purposes.

The first corrective is correct: antisemitism is the world's all-purpose prejudice.