Sample Sentences forcorporal punishment (auto-selected)
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In the Japanese military of that era, corporal punishment was routine practice.† (source)
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Even though they believed in corporal punishment, it was never doled out excessively or combined with verbal abuse—spanking was methodical and anger-free.† (source)
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Its original home was the laundry—in the summer those old machines made an inferno—but after one of the periodic reforms where the state made up new rules about corporal punishment, someone had the bright idea to bring it in here.† (source)
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I don't approve of corporal punishment, especially for girls.† (source)
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"Corporal punishment in schools was forbidden by law," he had gone on.† (source)
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Certainly, it was now the men who were problematic, and there was stiff penalty and corporal punishment for anyone known to be infected and not seeking treatment.† (source)
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When he found out that corporal punishment was not my trump card, he spent his whole life improvising irritations to test my self-control.† (source)
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She went to school up to the eighth grade, but then, after her marriage at age twelve to a sixteen-year-old boy, she was subjected to constant corporal punishment.† (source)
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America's sensitivity to corporal punishment ran counter to nearly everything that Beatrice and many refugee mothers had learned about keeping kids in line.† (source)
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Eustace (of course) was at a school where they didn't have corporal punishment, so the sensation was quite new to him.† (source)
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Of course, corporal punishment was forbidden in the schools.† (source)
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Corporal punishment was seldom used; it wasn't necessary.† (source)
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The Lightwoods weren't given to corporal punishment—quite a change from being brought up by Valentine, who'd concocted all sorts of painful castigations to encourage obedience.† (source)
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Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing.† (source)
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How foolish to object that there was something particularly ignominious about blows administered as corporal punishment.† (source)
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He was in a state of physical suffering as if from corporal punishment, and could not avoid expressing it by cries of anger and distress.† (source)
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