Sentence examples for method of chastisement from inspiring English sources

A popular method of chastisement throughout the Southeast was the raking of the skin with briars or a special pointed scratching instrument, but generally such action was regarded as strengthening or toughening the child rather than as delivering direct retribution for misdeeds.

But the railroad may need to mind its methods of chastisement.

But the younger man never heard a word of chastisement.

Half a dozen HSBC executives were summoned to Capitol Hill for a ritual display of chastisement.

Yesterday we saw Kauto Star administer a second dose of chastisement to his conqueror of last spring, the fine young champion Long Run.

In fact, one of the first states to rescind the right of chastisement was Alabama, in 1871, in a case called Fulgham v. State.

Perhaps, as many supporters of this type of "chastisement" would claim, she regards it as an act of love?

A good way to start is to say something like, "What's it like for you when you get angry" instead of chastisement.

The doctrine of chastisement, under which a husband could physically punish a defiant wife, as long as her injuries weren't permanent, held sway in Anglo-American common law until the mid-nineteenth century.

It was during the reign of Romulus of Rome that wife abuse was accepted and condoned under the Laws of Chastisement….

Such is the desperation here for the national team to win that there has been barely a word of chastisement for the Australia captain.