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Example sentences for "corporal punishment"

  • His conduct was regulated by corporal punishment or more extreme measures.

  • Corporal punishment of a harsh character appears to have been established.

  • They all told me that they considered the abolition of corporal punishment a great blessing to the native army.

  • The drill will never get on so well as it used to do, unless the rattan be called into use again; but we apprehend no evil from the abolition of corporal punishment afterwards.

  • Paullini, in the first section of his work, directs attention to the consecration of corporal punishment by Scripture and the Church.

  • In such cases the employment of corporal punishment cannot be too highly estimated.

  • As to corporal punishment, he has already experienced it very severely without any beneficial effect.

  • Captain John Corbett had, I understood, been appointed to the command with a view of establishing a milder rule than prevailed in Captain Randolph's time, when I believe there was a good deal of corporal punishment.

  • It imposes heavier fines and penalties throughout, and provides, in addition, for a system of corporal punishment.

  • Her inferiority is thus proclaimed almost on the first page of Holy Scripture; and inferiority, in an age of violence, necessarily involves subjection to corporal punishment.

  • The numerous cases of child suicide in the last decade were often the result of fear of corporal punishment; or have taken place after its administration.

  • Wherever a child is deterred from a bad habit or fault by corporal punishment, a real ethical result is not reached.

  • In the history of humanity the effect of the teaching about hell and fear of hell illustrates the sort of morality produced in children's souls by corporal punishment, that inferno of childhood.

  • Was that young man disgraced by this infliction of corporal punishment?

  • We would put the question to any military man--even to the strongest advocate of flogging--what is the usual effect of corporal punishment on the soldier?

  • And this is one reason why short enlistments and abolition of corporal punishment should go together.

  • It is the only real support of the cruel evil of corporal punishment.

  • Among the more ignorant classes, the frequency and severity of corporal punishment of children, are appalling.

  • A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.

  • Yet no one who has any knowledge of the history of corporal punishment will be surprised to hear that he was a frequent wielder of the rod.

  • Corporal punishment is the production of physical pain.

  • Corporal punishment, which is still practiced in some schools, is a relic of barbarism which ought to disappear.

  • Corporal punishment with a beneficial object does not satisfy the true masochist.

  • This fact, which has hitherto not received sufficient attention, gives one more reason for the abolition of corporal punishment in schools, for the art of dissimulation and refinement of torture are unlimited in the sexually perverted.

  • Corporal punishment of schoolboys is only useless and harmful brutality.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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