Sentence examples for floggings at from inspiring English sources

In the mid-1990s, unmarried couples, and women who broke the Islamic dress code, were terrorised by vigilante patrols and floggings at the hands of the judiciary.

Other people might call for floggings at the first sign of a broken window, a rude word called across a street.

People groaned at the floggings; laughed bitterly at the ranting of a plantation mistress; and clapped in time to a gospel tune that played over the credits at the end.

When Malala opted for some trashy American sitcoms, I was forced to remind myself that this girl – who had never shuddered at beheaded corpses, public floggings, and death threats directed at her father — was still just a kid.

His father, Auberon, enjoined upon him a certain anarchic stoicism, obviously derived from his own father, about the vicious floggings that both endured at their monastic schools: "The monks enjoyed whipping boys as a release from the constraints of their celibacy, and my father, throughout his life, always claimed that to be beaten was a small sacrifice for a boy and a great treat for a monk".

During a nine-month period, as captain of his previous command he ordered at least 85 floggings, the equivalent of half the crew; two men died from their injuries.

The spectators are mostly armed men wearing camouflage uniforms, and at least three of them openly videotape the floggings.

About 3,000 Taliban militants have kept 12,000 government troops at bay and terrorized the local population with floggings and the burning of schools.

(I'll take the pizza eating with fork flogging over the clown or "F" and "U" train floggings).

Down south, too, floggings aren't uncommon.

There were public floggings and hangings".