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Meanings of physical punishment in English

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Usage of physical punishment in English
1
Neither threat of hell nor the infliction of physical punishment has availed.
Woman and the New Race
2
Is physical punishment a parental right or an abuse of children?
The Irish Times
3
Results are swifter and more conclusive when physical punishment is used.
Magic terror: seven tales
4
There was no relationship between social capital and harsh physical punishment.
Pubmed
5
Under this code some offences can attract physical punishment while others attract executions.
News.com.au
6
That fistfights are no mere entertainment, but actually brutal physical punishment.
The new yorker
7
The Church should, as I did, have the right to apply physical punishment!
A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho
8
After his own childhood, Stallings would never have considered physical punishment.
The perfect woman
9
Her terrible depression and her need for physical punishment made sense.
Empty mile
10
Arman said the verdict against her did not include any form of physical punishment.
Reuters
11
In turn, parents must agree not to use physical punishment to discipline their kids.
The Guardian
12
I had nerved myself for physical punishment, but for nothing so dreadful as this.
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
13
No physical punishment of any kind is used here.''
English passengers
14
In addition, two thirds of adults seem to agree with the physical punishment of children.
The Irish Times
15
There was lots of physical punishment, bullying and brutality both among the staff and students.
The Irish Times
16
And, after all, imprisonment itself is physical punishment and a continued assault upon the body.
London's Underworld
This collocation consists of:
Physical punishment through the time
Physical punishment across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common