The whole team worried about the chastisement it would receive after they broke the window. From LearnThat.org.
Its clear that the SNOWBLOWER, is trying to downplay this obvious condemnation and chastisement from the newly elected Iraqi Prime Minister. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rice Drops White House Claim That Iraqi Prime Minister Was Misquoted About Haditha] Reference
Sec 58 of the Children Act 2004 provides that lawful chastisement is available provided it falls short of offenses of ABH and cruelty to a person under 16. From Wordnik.com. [Upside Your Head « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
He may feel himself obliged to make political capital, and refuse to yield the men, at the risk of bringing down prompt chastisement from the armed hand of England. From Wordnik.com. [London, Saturday, January 4, 1862] Reference
And that my chastisement is the grievous chastisement. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
Note 1: In fact, nineteenth-century courts used the term "chastisement" to refer to wife-beating. From Wordnik.com. ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference
The "chastisement" was worthy of Ivan the Terrible. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Russia] Reference
Are we self-righteous enough to imagine that we do not deserve our share of the chastisement which is abroad?. From Wordnik.com. [Vain is the help of man : a sermon preached in Christ Church, Savannah, on Thursday, September 15, 1864, being the day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, appointed by the Governor of the State of Georgia,] Reference
Why did you not complete it, and deny that when men of rank gamble "chastisement" does "therefore hide its head?". From Wordnik.com. [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference
He seemed much impressed and thanked me for my "chastisement," as they call any solemn counsel and admonition, and promised to heed it. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference
She wondered whether Captain Winstanley had ever been horsewhipped; whether that kind of chastisement was numbered in the sum of his experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume II.] Reference
My chastisement I knew -- just meant Pillsbury's Best. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Book for A Little Cook] Reference
Periander's chastisement been postponed for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
He chastised the nation; but He guided the chastisement. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
I fear me, God's chastisement will be needed to amend you. '. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
And the intention and effect of chastisement are clearly intimated. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
So the suffering could not be penalty; but it could be chastisement. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
And what is the divine intention of this chastisement or discipline?. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
They were lessons calling for chastisement and you didn't need chastising. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Though perhaps she was overly judgmental, I cheered her chastisement of Don's promiscuity. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: Motherhood and Futility: Mad Men Season 4, Ep3] Reference
A superficial view of the case may deem it punishment; but a deeper view recognizes it as chastisement. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Champney was not minded to administer this well-deserved chastisement in the presence of the dog's protectress. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
In the South the chastisement of Servia, undertaken solely for Servia's own good, has triumphantly achieved its object. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914] Reference
Not that we should lightly use this word Providence, and suspend over M. de Camors a menace of supernatural chastisement. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the front rank Percy recognized the imp who had burnt his coat, Jabe's brother, whose chastisement had started the trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Before him, everything seemed dark, mysterious, awe-inspiring, despairing; for aught he knew, a just chastisement awaited him. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
It was true that the enemy had been routed time after time, but he had got away without chastisement, and in most cases with his guns. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
By 2012, this period of chastisement will likely have run its course, and future-mindedness will be back in vogue, for better or worse. From Wordnik.com. [Land Of The Future] Reference
Mr. Rousseau determined to resent the insult which he conceived to be offered him in this speech by inflicting a bodily chastisement upon. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
The remainder, who escaped on the terms of peace, soon after this heavy chastisement, abandoned their country, and joined a northern tribe of. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The Dane knew this perfectly, but my severe chastisement rankled in his heart, and made him seek revenge in the most effectual way on the coast of Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
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