"They put their heads together and say, 'Surely we can come up with something that the court will agree on.' That's when you get the sort of trivial nonsense like 'He was late home from work' and 'He wasn't supportive in the kitchen.' " In some cases, though, the divorce petition is used as an "instrument of punishment," Mr. Chamberlayne said.
"This is used both to extract confessions," says Tom Porteous, UK Director of Human Rights Watch "and as an instrument of punishment and deterrent".
Through isolation, media manipulation, and seven years spent mastering all kinds of cool fighting techniques, the Bruce Wayne of Batman Begins chisels himself into the most dedicated instrument of punishment.
When anyone -- especially someone who acts under authority of Law (and who passed the Bar Examination on the very first try!) -- uses music as an instrument of punishment, it cheapens music, cheapens the law and frankly coarsens the society the ill-advised jurist intends to uplift.
It did not serve the country well in helping the citizenry understand the reality of tax policy toward business in the U.S. The sound bites and rhetoric coming from the White House and Capitol Hill--as well as from some of the CEOs they enlisted--often cast taxes on business income as instruments of government punishment.
Pillory, an instrument of corporal punishment consisting of a wooden post and frame fixed on a platform raised several feet from the ground.
