"deliver a beating" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to physically attack or assault someone. Example: The bully threatened to deliver a beating to anyone who stood up to him.
Of course, it takes about seven seconds for Ray to dispense with any niceties and start administering some blunt justice, delivering a beating severe enough to undo all of Pitler's expensive plastic surgery.
Given that everyone knows Yoani Sanchez is a writer and you are the Vice Minister of Culture, I would say that an atmosphere of terror doesn't agree with you, and that the image of your delivering a beating is regrettable and unfortunate.
They stayed in the pit; they didn't deliver a beat; they didn't even sing.
I'd review legal documents from ten until one; then, when everybody stopped for lunch, I'd act as my own muscle—I'd be built, remember and deliver a beat down on whichever one of my corner boys wasn't stepping up.
Higher consumer spending, despite a longer than normal winter, helped Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ URBNN) deliver a beat in consensus expectations on sales and earnings.
In truth, as Hersey suggests, Dismukes may have been less noble than he appears here; according to a witness, he, too, alongside the police, delivered a beating at the Algiers.
Were there not traditions of claret casks brought up into the dining room, the door locked, and the key thrown out of the window?' That was the carrot that lured me into the book, but on almost every other page a stick leapt out to deliver a sound beating.
The title match ended in a double count-out after the two united and delivered a beat-down to the champions.
The pattern was set in Jerry Maguire, where King played the kickass wife of a self-destructive American football star, and delivered a true beating heart to set against the hyperactive bromance between Cuba Gooding Jr and Tom Cruise.
In January, 2009, he delivered a brutal beating to Antonio Margarito, who seemed to deserve it.
