How To Use Chastise In A Sentence

Previously they could use 'reasonable chastisement', with a judge making a final ruling. Times, Sunday Times
Chastised, Elder Brother held his tongue, turning to look at Jinju as if to seek her support.
Both the Indian and Pakistani press chastised Mr. Pillai's ill-timed public divulgence, though it doesn't diminish the veracity of his statement in any way. Michael Hughes: India Too Complacent About Pakistan Complicity in Mumbai Attacks
As we crossed the Baltic in a shared ship's cabin, my mother watched to make sure I brushed my hair and teeth morning and night and chastised me for wearing clothes that were too creased or skirts that were too short.
Charity organizations have chastised the Government for not doing enough to prevent the latest famine in Africa.

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chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia," nor shown "to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome. The Man Shakespeare
Vince Cable, the Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, asked if the government had been embarrassed at being "chastised" by the EU and pointed out that ministers have not said where the cuts would fall. Epolitix News
For, as he [a husband] is to answer for her [his wife's] misbehavior, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children; for whom the master or parent is also liable in some cases to answer. 7 'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
Help those in her presence to keep a civil tongue and a calm demeanor as they take on the burden of chastisement and admonishment, which is never easy work, Lord. Poor, Afflicted Nail Filing Sister
They openly berated and chastised any hint of cowardice in their sons.
He was persuaded to confess by 25 blows of the knout—a favourite Russian instrument of chastisement—on the first day, and 15 on the second.
In lines later excised at Charles Lamb's urging, the poem's speaker goes on to chastise Susan as a "Poor Outcast" (perhaps a prostitute, then no uncommon condition) who should return to her father's rustic home and, having replaced her fancy loomed dress for a "plain russet" home-spun gown, once again hear a "thrush sing from a tree of its own" (17-20). 'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
The civil law gave the husband the same, or a larger authority over his wife, allowing him, for some misdemeanors, _flagellis et Fustibus acriter verberare uxorem_ (to beat his wife severely with whips and cudgels); for others only _modicam castigationem adhibere_ (to administer moderate chastisement). History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
The visitors were scandalized by the chastisements imposed by the French upon their children.
Fame id the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
In the height of his prosperity, the victorious monarch, who had chastised the rashness of Gallus, and suppressed the revolt of Sylvanus, who had taken the diadem from the head of Vetranio, and vanquished in the field the legions of Magnentius, received from an invisible hand a wound, which he could neither heal nor revenge; and the son of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Once again, his disgruntled followers chastised him for his carelessness.
In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Fool! she chastised herself, giving herself a shake as the buzzer on the microwave announced that the chicken was ready.
He could've flapped the wings better," Brandon Jacobs chastised later with a disappointed headshake. Giants Fly Past Falcons on Way to Green Bay
And so we leave: unaudited, unbullied, and unchastised. Times, Sunday Times
The Securities Commission chastised the firm but imposed no fine.
Beholding that chastiser of foes made steedless and driverless, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Eventually the Supt is winkled out-fortunately he knows me and is practical minded-he agrees with my judgement and the whole thing goes to CPS who say-reasonable chastisement. Upside Your Head « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
It is true, the Arabian sage returned to his allegiance, and thereafter composed a genuine continuation of the Knight of La Mancha, in which the said Avellaneda of Tordesillas is severely chastised. The Monastery
The father chastised his son for his misconduct.
Even the odor of my Calcutta washerman, redolent with the fragrance of castor oil, was too much for my unchastised squeamishness; and as to assafoetida, the favorite condiment of our Aryan cousins, I was so uncatholic as to bring away from India the same aversion to it that I had carried out there. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
This irks me to no end and I sometimes chastise him about buying the kids' loyalty.
He chastised me severely and called me a bad person for even asking the question.
Many of the Christian systems chastise the body and mortify it.
But critics from Connecticut and elsewhere chastise his embrace of nuclear power.
In Lacedaemon, pedagogues chastised their scholars by biting their thumb.
None may chastise him for deviance (for there is none), nor catechize him about the path to take (for there are as many paths as there are seekers).
The village primary school was in the doldrums after being chastised for ‘serious weaknesses’ in pupil behaviour, which was disrupting lessons, and for the poor quality of teaching.
Yesterday, amidst it all, one of my rabbonim, in a bekeishe, with peyot tightly curled down to his chin and a beard to his belly button, turned to us in shiur and asked if any of us were homophobic or anti-homosexual, and proceeded to chastise anyone who might harbor those views. Jerusalem Pride March: it just keeps getting worse by Ariel | Jewschool
In such a scene, you might expect God to chastise the people for their unbelief - or even to exact punishment on them.
Beware the chastisement of hubris. Times, Sunday Times
To his teachers' fury, chastisement did not cause contrition but hilarity. Times, Sunday Times
It is important that you don't chastise or admonish yourself for your feelings.
Be warned! the next person who even LOOKS like they are about to chastise me for consuming it in large quantities is gonna get a book inserted into a NON book shaped orifice! Archive 2009-08-01
On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure.
One woman demonstrably took his side when it was obvious that our glances and verbalizations were chastisements.
This would surely shame councillors into doing their duty by the poor more effectively than any prime ministerial chastisement. Times, Sunday Times
We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by.
For a brief instant, he imagined opening the chest to find gold doubloons or the like but then the adult in him rose up and chastised his childish side.
She wore the whitest cotton cap with the broadest of ruffles; she was very black and very portly; and her scepter was a good-sized stick, kept to chastise small dogs and children who invaded her territory. A girl's life in Virginia before the war,
On this mysterious chastisement, which some think consisted in an attack of the madness called lycanthropy, as well as on the interregnum which it must have caused, Babylonian annals are silent: clever hypotheses have been devised either to explain this silence, or in scanning documents in order to find in them traces of the wanted interregnum The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
She stopped to chastise her audience, telling them to treat local hotel employees and restaurant workers with respect.
You might think he would demand more of an explanation, but most people don’t want to set themselves up to be chastised, which is what he will be asking for if he pushes it. THE SURRENDERED SINGLE
And because that he wist well and knew that chastity in delices, pity in riches, and humility in honour often perish, he took and gave his courage to sobriety and good diet, to humility and misericorde, keeping himself right curiously from the pricking sautes and watch of the world, the flesh and the devil, and chastised his body and brought it to servitude by the ensample of the apostles. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
If -- The oldest manuscripts read, "With a view to chastening (that is, since God's chastisement is with a view to your chastening, that is, disciplinary amelioration) endure patiently"; so Vulgate. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He said he would not chastise his brother for not returning home to visit the family or contact them.
a pun on _pheese_ ( "to chastise or pay one tit for tat"), and means Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
The father chastised his son for his misconduct.
For in nature as in simple bodies, when there is an accumulation of much superfluous matter, it very often moves by itself and makes a purgation which is healthy to that body; and so it happens in this compound body of the human race, that when all the provinces are full of inhabitants so that they cannot live or go elsewhere in order to occupy and fill up all places, and when human astuteness and malignity has gone as far as they can go, it happens of necessity that the world purges itself in one of the three ways, so that men having been chastised and reduced in number, live more commodiously and become better. Discourses
There will be no money to pay the monitors, record-keepers, chastisers - there will be no one to answer to, except on paper.
If we habitually looked at calamities as His loving chastisement, intended to draw us to Himself, we should not have to stand perplexed so often at what we call the mysteries of His providence. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
The Kshatriya, conversant with duties, that upholds righteousness when it is trespassed against, does not, by that act, become a sinner, for the wrath of the assailant justifies the wrath of the chastiser. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Some jurisconsults, indeed, have wisely held that the contumacious person ought not to be condemned unless the crime were clearly established; but other lawyers have been of a contrary opinion: they have boldly affirmed that the flight of the accused was a proof of the crime; that the contempt which he showed for justice, by refusing to appear, merited the same chastisement as would have followed his conviction. A Philosophical Dictionary
By this means she insured the personal chastisement of all other youths who dared to lift their eyes to her, while she by no means bound herself to her spadassin of St. Valeri. Hereward, the Last of the English
But of late, his self-chastisement has lacked the venom of old. Times, Sunday Times
Hellas; but Athens was the greatest of them all — the avenger of Argos, the chastiser of Thebes, the patron of those who founded Hellenica
He was in shorts, like one of the errant schoolboys he used to chastise, clutching a sheaf of papers, or hastily-composed homework, shaking his general defiance.
Being chastised by the Americans in public reflected a grievous loss of face. Times, Sunday Times
Paul cast out the spirit; and her owners brought him and Silas before the magistrates, the duumvirs, who inflicted summary chastisement, never imagining they were Romans.
Brown also chastised state Sen. Eric Johnson during his speech, calling the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor a "bloodsucker" pandering to voters. Kentucky.com: Homepage
And, if a Bishop or two were removed or at least publicly chastised by Rome or something, it would put those in line for the bishopric on some kind of notice that taking moral stands is part of the job description.
He chastised the team for their lack of commitment.
She has "chastised" me for giving the children too many gifts. Ask Amy
Newsome reported, When Nichols weight plateaued at 280 pounds, she says Shamblin chastised her for not losing more and told her to ’stop being a billboard for sin.’ Diet Plans Turn Into Religious Cults | Impact Lab
Sahadeva, and with three other arrows, that chastiser of foes afflicted The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Dr. Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich and colleagues recently presented findings on the importance of punishment in maintaining cooperative behavior among humans and the willingness of people to punish those who commit crimes or violate norms, even when the chastisers take risks and gain nothing themselves while serving as ad hoc police.
Sertorius, began to waver and revolt; whereupon Sertorius uttered various arrogant and scornful speeches against Pompey, saying in derision, that he should want no other weapon but a ferula and rod to chastise this boy with, if he were not afraid of that old woman, meaning Metellus. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Specific verses are cited to illustrate the various roles of angels, including but not limited to: protectors, warriors, chastisers, encouragers, predictors of the future and instructors, always fulfilling the word of God.
Kathleen Parker, in one of her more unguardedly loopy columns, chastises Barack Obama for not being a tough guy. No Mas Macho
Since then not to be chastised is a mark of bastardy, we ought [not to refuse, but] rejoice in chastisement, as a mark of our genuine sonship" [Chrysostom]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Nor was it at all certain, in any one instance, where this exemplary chastisement overtook him, that the apparent unanimity of the actors went further than the _practical_ conclusion of "abating" the imperial nuisance, or that their indignation had settled upon the same offences. The Caesars
She was looking for information, and she was chastised for doing that without getting permission from higher-ups.
You cannot but know that we live in a period of chastisement and ruin.
For as he that only punishes a sin and does nothing to point out its most extreme lawlessness, produces no such great effect by his chastisement: so again, he who only abashes and fails to terrify by his mode of punishing, does not very keenly hit men of hardened minds. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
Jehovah turns the hearts of kings and peoples as the rivers of water, and He stirred up these hostile nations when His people were in need of chastisement; He could wield their power as the axe which assails a tree is wielded by the woodman; He could call the mightiest conqueror to serve His secret purposes, as a man calls a dog to his foot. [ The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891
In the Washington Post yesterday, conservative columnist George Will chastised Energy Secretary Stephen Chu for "doomsaying" about global warming, arguing that concerns about climate change are just "eco-pessimism. Think Progress
However, sadly, there are too many people for whom physical chastisement or emotional abuse is the normal pattern of behaviour, irrespective of whether they are natural born parents or a de facto partner of a parent.
He fumbles routine grounders and on a cool afternoon in September in the middle of a three-way pennant race, he lallygags his way to first and Willy pulls him from the game and chastises him in the dugout in plain view of the SNY cameras, and in the post-game conference. Mets Geek
I never smacked him or chastised him or punished him.
Her ‘see, I told you so’ grin left me feeling like a chastised schoolgirl - or the last horse-and-buggy driver in town.
Hundreds of England flags stuck to stationary cars fluttered sadly and ignored, like puppies who had been chastised for messing on the carpet.
He also that beareth on his head that gem which is known as the most wonderful on earth, that king of the Yavanas, who hath chastised Muru and Naraka, whose power is unlimited, and who ruleth the west like another Varuna, who is called Bhagadatta, and who is the old friend of thy father, hath bowed his head before Jarasandha, by speech and specially by act. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva
While his lo-fi contemporary, Wavves, uses his public persona to chastise the Portuguese while on uppers, Blank Dogs has stayed nearly hidden, content to let rumors that he wears only gauze during live performances play themselves out. Pop Music This Fussy and Intimate « PubliCola
Illuminator, aimer of light, chastiser of mankind, the poet is the possessor of a Sesame which in a mysterious way is, so to speak, the word of his destiny. Vicente Aleixandre - Nobel Lecture
God, our Lord hath chastised thee in the works of his hands, confess thou to our Lord in his good things and bless thou the God of worlds that he may re-edify in thee his tabernacle, and that he may call again to thee all prisoners and them that be in captivity and that thou joy in omnia secula seculorum. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
Because Clyde can't make it up some hills if he has to halt at certain stop signs, he has already been chastised for coming to a roll-stop by local police.
Or, rather, he had invented for himself a language which used the sinews of the languages to which he had been exposed-and once I thought that his was, not the Adamic language that a happy mankind had spoken, all united by a single tongue from the origin of the world to the Tower of Babel, or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division, but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement, the language of primeval confusion. The Name of the Rose
The traditional whipping-stick the accusation of being photographic used to chastise artists was now extended to include cinematography.
For instance, they don't hesitate to chastise a colleague, even if he is a personal friend, for incompetent work.
As I entered that all-too-familiar room, the creator spiritus took possession of me, held me in its clutches and chastised me for eight weeks, until the work was all but finished.
AA LB Brandon Spikes was concerned in an eye gouging incident which led HC Herban Meyer to announce which this was a teaching moment for his team, as good as he followed which up with a unbending chastisement for Spikes of a cessation from a Vandy diversion for a 1st half. Archive 2009-11-01
Senator Clinton's supporters (aka "the house Negroes") are being chastised and abused (i.e., "whupped") for not exactly following the orders of Don, Alice and the DNC leadership (aka "massa"). Top Dem Party Officials Send Sharply-Worded Email Demanding That Hillary Donors And Supporters Get Behind Obama
Indeed, if it depended on the better classes, the confederates would be put to death without trial and with violence; while the commons were their refuge and the chastiser of these men. The History of the Peloponnesian War
No truely Sir, I came hither to no other end, but onely to chastise and admonish them in friendly manner, to clense their mindes from such abhominable profit: And assuredly, I should have prevailed therein, had not this violent sicknesse hindered mine intention. The Decameron
She calls him brother and chastises him for speaking so sternly to her.
Most people come to parenthood with a determination to spare their children the deprivations and chastisements of their own youth.
So the people putting together the maps and the statistics deserve support, not blame or chastisement.
Chastise, as well as castigate, comes from the Latin castigare, which adds the force of -igare, or agere, “to drive,” to the purifying. No Uncertain Terms
The memo chastised pilots for what it described as deviating from industry-wide practices. Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide
He is also expecting to be chastised by psychiatrists and doctors. Times, Sunday Times
We cannot chastise her for what she does, because, ultimately, he had us fooled as well.
Many report being severely chastised if they spoke to anyone outside the employer's house and of being locked in when the rest of the household was away.
The first important law, enacted in 1702, repeated an earlier prohibition against trading with slaves; authorized masters to chastise their slaves at discretion; forbade the meeting of more than three slaves at any time or place unless in their masters 'service or by their consent; penalized with imprisonment and lashes the striking of a "Christian" by a slave; made the seductor or harborer of a runaway slave liable for heavy damages to the owner; and excluded slave testimony from the courts except as against other slaves charged with conspiracy. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
For if he be 'chastised' who does 'not discern,' i.e. distinguish, the body of the Lord from other meats, how must he be Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
After a series of punch-ups at posh events in Manchester, they have been chastised by their industry's own magazine.
One morning Oriol chastises the brigade for failing to clean a cart during the past five days; Eugeni stops Frederico as he carries a plastic tray from the plonge in one hand, warning him that he is going to drip water on the floor. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
We were already so distressed that further chastisement must have seemed pointless. Times, Sunday Times
For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat.
The Tower Board said the scandal had been a failure of responsibility and chastised Reagan for putting the principal responsibility for policy review and implementation on the shoulders of his advisers. Printing: Democracy's Battle Joined, Again
Yet nould with death them chastise though he mought, Jerusalem Delivered
Morrice, ashamed of his exploit, and frightened by the looks of Mr Monckton, made an apology with the utmost humility, and hurried away: and Mr Monckton, hopeless of any better fortune, soon did the same, gnawn with a cruel discontent which he did not dare avow, and longing. to revenge himself upon Morrice, even by personal chastisement. Cecilia
She chastised me severely, and when we got back to her house, she sat me down and made sure that I watched it, on VHS, from beginning to end.
Another call for a mistrial, another denial, but Judge Costello chastised the prosecutor, calling his conduct "astonishing" and promising to address the matter later.
Paris attempts to downplay his own fighting prowess and Hector chastises him lightly, criticizing him only for avoiding battle, not for lack of ability.
This approach seems to be based on the notion that chastisement and domestic violence are one and the same. The Star (South Africa)
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If they are made to work, and are chastised, but stinted of their food, such treatment is oppressive, and saps their strength.
I love my parents and don't suffer any psychological trauma from being 'chastised' for breaking the rules. Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
The titles of certain of the lost plays indicate the comic illumining character; a Self-pitier, a Self-chastiser, an Ill-tempered man, a Complete Short Works of George Meredith
Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: again cappy (backup), you chastise the left for a lack of integrity and responsiblility while ignoring the behaviour on the right. Think Progress » GOP Rep. Nunes Excuses Racist, Homophobic Tea Partier Slurs As A Response To ‘Totalitarian Tactics’
She'll not be “chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia,” nor shown “to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome.” The Man Shakespeare
Psychiatrist Paul Whitehead told the court that Smart had been "chastised" by Mitchell and ABC News: Top Stories
The law is absolutely clear: the Bill treats smacking as lawful and reasonable chastisement.
He expresses the desire to retreat and Aeneas chastises him offering his own chariot as a vehicle.
It seems ironic that some would criticize the military for providing that opportunity when they chastise other departments for failing to.
A man like me," Gandhi argued, "cannot but believe this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins" — in particular the sins of untouchability. Tagore and His India
In 1969, he said, he had dinner with Lillian Hellman at the Carlyle, and she chastised him for staying at a "fleabag" hotel in New York and told him to check in. Warren Beatty Shampoos the Sleazy 90's
Reacting to the report of her husband Herod's death, Mariam acknowledges the intricacy of her emotional response and chastises herself for her earlier censure of Julius Caesar, who famously wept at the news of Pompey's demise.
At first there was no sovereignty, no king, no chastisement, and no chastiser. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
The traditional whipping-stick the accusation of being photographic used to chastise artists was now extended to include cinematography.
Most people come to parenthood with a determination to spare their children the deprivations and chastisements of their own youth.
On this view, remorse is chastisement enough by itself. Times, Sunday Times
The folkies decried his ‘abandonment’ of their movement, and chastised him with a vitriolic fury that bordered on possession.
He often got chastised by other parents for things like pushing another child off the sandbox ledge in a moment of exuberance, although he did it not from anger but out of boisterousness. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? A Brief History of Disbelief
Old Jolyon was left with the doll, a furbelowed affair in wax — which is indeed more inviting to chastisement than china — whose round blue eyes expressed nothing but indifference. On Forsyte 'Change
Perhaps God, the chastiser of his children and the one who shines the light on what is secret, is forcing him to deal with these things by bringing them out of the background to the foreground of his life. Reminder of a Basic Christian Doctrine For Those Prone to Forget: Christians Sin
Of course, I soon chastised myself for trying to jump from statements about human universals to an analysis of the fine-grained sequences of behaviour that constituted my marriage.
She fell into a bitter argument with her husband, who vehemently chastised Goneril for her mistreatment of Lear.
The ECB resists, and all who balk will be chastised by the monied powers and their demimonde, the ratings agencies and global banks. Matthew Yglesias » The ECB’s Complacency
Charity organizations have chastised the Government for not doing enough to prevent the latest famine in Africa.
Indeed, if it depended on the “best people,” the citizens of the allied states would be put to death without trial and with violence; while The People was their refuge and the chastiser of these men. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
Headmaster Fuess was no doubt familiar with a type of teacher who is far rarer now than during the era in which he taught, and which he describes here in a passage featuring the word castigate (KA stuh gayt), a harsh-sounding word that comes from the same Latin root as chastise, and means to criticize or punish severely, especially by harsh public criticism. Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition
'Doctor, you have right well and courteously chastised our presumptuous emprise; algates, your love is dear to me, as should be that of a man of worth and learning; wherefore, you may in all assurance command me, as your creature, of your every pleasure, saving only mine honour.' The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
But her mother expressed an ardent desire to hear my _vivâ voce_ corroboration of this statement, informing me that she was but a poor weak widow-woman, but that, if it should appear that I was merely the giddy trifler of her daughter's young, artless affections, it would be her dolesome duty to summon instantaneously every male able-bodied inmate of her establishment, and request them to inflict deserved corporal chastisement upon my person! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat.
Certainly there are those within these communities who disagree with my use of the word, but I am most often chastised for saying it by straight people who would probably turn a deaf ear if another het said it instead.
Even animals chastise their offspring with a little nip of pain to teach them to behave.
Both girls have displayed other troubling behaviour since arriving in care, including: H.T. ducking her head when chastised, both girls soiling their underpants and smearing feces when upset.
A quick survey of my friends shows that many of them are quoting the midrash about the death of the Egyptians at the Red Sea, when the angels are chastised for celebrating the death of God's creatures. Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster: Reacting To The Death Of Osama Bin Laden: We Should Reflect, Not Rejoice
They chastised the government for lacking vitality and strength.
The latter paid absolutely no attention to him when he said "Get-ap," or when he applied the "gad"; she neither obeyed the command nor resented the chastisement. Anderson Crow, Detective
And we impower you in this Behalf to fine, correct, punish, chastise and reform and imprison and cause and command to be imprisoned, in any Gaols being within our Province of South Carolina aforesaid and maritime places of the same, the Parties guilty and Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
I cursed the name of the barista who made my coffee and chastised the cup manufacturer from not making a more efficient system to contain a travelling beverage.
On the Wonk Room, Igor Volsky points out that McCain chastised Mullen and Defense Secretary Gates for formulating an opinion on DADT before consulting him. Think Progress » Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mullen: ‘It is my personal belief’ that repealing DADT is ‘the right thing to do.’
He took out his horsewhip and chastised them, and then he fell on his knees and prayed for their souls.
S: And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not be finished with them entirely so that they should die, nor shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them: even thus do We retribute every ungrateful one. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
If I'm garrulous, it means I'm procrastinating, and I should be chastised accordingly.
We are rightly chastised and will punish ourselves for our failures.
The king aduertised of such rebellious exploits, enterprised by the said Owen, and his vnrulie complices, determined to chastise them, as disturbers of his peace, and so with an armie entered into Wales; but the Welshmen with their capteine withdrew into the mounteines of Snowdon, so to escape the reuenge, which the king meant towards them. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius and the depravities (turpissimas!) of Canicula, the deceased wife of Mauritius, with Sulla, the simoniac, who is abnegand and repents. Finnegans Wake
These are the people who show their love not with unconditional support but with chastisement. Times, Sunday Times
He could not have done more, except score, and being as self-critical as he is, he might reflect on his one chance and chastise himself again.
Another call for a mistrial, another denial, but Judge Costello chastised the prosecutor, calling his conduct "astonishing" and promising to address the matter later.
I never smacked him or chastised him or punished him.
He has more animal spirit than the pointer, but he has not so much patient courage; and the chastisement, sometimes unnecessary and cruel, but leaving the pointer perfect in his work, and eager for it too, would make the setter disgusted with it, and leave him a mere 'blinker'. The Dog
Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius and the depravities (turpissimas!) of Canicula, the deceased wife of Mauritius, with Sulla, the simoniac, who is abnegand and repents. Finnegans Wake
He took out his horsewhip and chastised them, and then he fell on his knees and prayed for their souls.
How dare this miserable excuse for a Federal Government chastise any other country over pulling their troops out of Iraq.
It could turn out that being chastised by a supervisor might give you a chance to evaluate your own performance and step it up a notch so the next annual review might yield a raise or a promotion.
Unlike Finley, who chastised Tripler for not following proper procedures in requisitioning hospital buildings, Hammond did not obstruct Letterman's end-run around the War Department to organize an ambulance corps.
She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
The father chastised his son for his misconduct.
Being chastised by the Americans in public reflected a grievous loss of face. Times, Sunday Times
If it suddenly gets pulled, you'll know I've been chastised.
According to the military court, the act of dunking a drunk's head in cold water ‘is intended to subdue or revive rather than to chastise; therapeutical rather than degredational.’
Goss also admitted he had no knowledge of Arabic and that his kids chastised him for being incapable with computers.
He chastised what he termed gullible Western media for repeating the US envoys comments without seeking the government's side of the story. ANC Daily News Briefing
I fell victim to similar chastisements on the journey there, and I had merely bemoaned the lack of air conditioning.

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