Sentence examples for escape beatings from inspiring English sources

Children also told those who conducted the survey that teachers used corporal punishment and that they had left school to escape beatings.

Under the headline "5 in Bronx Youth Gangs Indicted in Merchant 'Protection' Racket," an article in The New York Times published on Oct. 19, 1973, began, "Scores of shopkeepers in the South Bronx have been terrorized by street gangs into paying 'protection' money to escape beatings, arson and robbery".

The beasts nearly trampled passersby as they attempted to escape beatings.

I've escaped beatings myself by not being home when a gang of angry men knocked on the door.

"She left her husband to escape his beatings".

She climbed a tree in the courtyard of her house to escape the beatings.

His grandma called it the swamp and Juan soon learned that to escape her beatings he needed to stay clean.

Drolma joined the nunnery at age 13 to escape the beatings of an alcoholic father.

One of these women, Lucia, who is seven months pregnant, fled Guatemala to escape brutal beatings at the hands of an abusive husband.

It is also remarkable when you take into account that national Democratic leaders created an accelerated primary schedule this year in order to produce a nominee who would escape the intramural beatings that previous presidential candidates endured as a result of long, drawn-out primary fights.

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