Sentence examples for on floggings from inspiring English sources

In turn, Delano had to rely ever more on physical punishment, on floggings even for the most minor of offences, to maintain control of his ship -- until, that is, he came across the Spanish slaver.

"First you start off doing the parking, then you move on to flogging tickets outside the game," he explains, alleging that during the matches he runs guns and drugs, mostly speed and marijuana, through the stands.

They reported and commented on rallies, shootings, beatings and a series of floggings that eventually brought the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the region and ended with federal and state prosecutions of more than 100 Klansmen, including Thomas Hamilton, who was known as the Grand Dragon of the Association of Carolina Klans.

The group has copied some of the Taliban's more puritanical features, such as insisting on beards, meting out floggings, stoning adulterers and banning music.

As American gays chatter of victory, their Iranian counterparts inhabit a medieval world of floggings and public hangings.

The protesters are under no illusion that the factory whistle will blow and call them back to work, or that the rich will stop the financial floggings on their own initiative.

For my taste McQueen lingers too long on scenes of brutal floggings and assaults (though the sex is not tastelessly explicit), which may be what white viewers need to be reminded of – except excessively explicit violence is a staple of many modern films, where the old saying that "less is more" has long been forgotten.

Here are some books in a Rabelais library: On the Art of Discreetly Farting in Company, On How to Defecate, Fundamental Floggings, The Gut-cavities of the Mendicants, Spanish Pongs, Super-refined, The Backgammon of Belly-bumping Friars and Martingale Breeches with Back-flaps for Turd-droppers But the arse isn't all that Rabelais is interested in.

The 50 lashes -- labeled by Amnesty International a "vicious act of cruelty" -- was the first installment on his sentence of 1,000 floggings, as well as 10 years in prison and a fine of $266,000.

But it's not quite on a par with the lynchings, floggings and threatened executions of Pakistan.

Men still smoke in the streets, women drive cars, and no one can confirm any beheadings or floggings.