How to Use corporal punishment in a Sentence

corporal punishment

noun
  • Despite the shift, corporal punishment was used 4,300 times in the state last year.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This is the state where corporal punishment is still legal and widely used.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Oklahoma is among the 19 states where corporal punishment is still legal in public schools.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • According to the letter, corporal punishment is allowed in 23 states.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Among those arrests is one in July 2021 on suspicion of battery and cruel or inhuman corporal punishment against a child, according to court records.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • The losers of the impromptu brawls would then suffer corporal punishment at Leiva’s hands, prosecutors alleged.
    — James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • When Trump was 13, his father found his collection of switchblades (bought after seeing West Side Story) and shipped him off to a military academy known for corporal punishment.
    — EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Yet sadly, when one’s entire career is built on such an efficient way of offing another who is (or isn’t) guilty, and that disappears, other forms of corporal punishment don’t satisfy in the same way.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • President Biden's secretary of education released a letter calling for the end of all corporal punishment in U.S. schools.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In many instances, corporal punishment is legal in Tennessee schools.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The Times articles sparked debate among officials over corporal punishment laws.
    — Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • West’s mother was a demanding perfectionist, and his father, although a gregarious, outgoing man, had a short fuse and was a firm believer in corporal punishment.
    — Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Many operated like military training camps where children were subject to abuse, neglect and corporal punishment.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • India Kashmir banned corporal punishment in schools in response to the advocacy of mental health professionals and their reports of children requiring care after being punished at school.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Across the country, media reports of corporal punishment also cite instances of severe physical injury and at least one fatality in December.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • And in 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guidelines on corporal punishment, calling the practice ineffective and harmful for kids.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
  • According to state records, the day care was found deficient of at least two child care licensing rules in an investigation into the incidents mentioned in the lawsuit, including corporal punishment and humiliating, rejecting or yelling at a child.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Still, Oklahoma lawmakers opposing the bill argued that corporal punishment is needed to maintain classroom order.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Both children were subjected to strict corporal punishment, prosecutors said.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Yet state legislation proposing to ban corporal punishment continues to face resistance.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Catonsville author Tara Ebersole’s first foray into fiction writing drew her deep into researching corporal punishment in education.
    — Lillian Reed, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The United Nations and national governments have condemned public corporal punishment.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Although corporal punishment cannot be administered to a public school student in Maryland, the law is largely silent on its use in other institutions, such as private schools, nonpublic schools and schools operated by religious organizations.
    — Lillian Reed, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Although Kashmir was not subject to certain Indian laws when the country prohibited corporal punishment in 2009, the new ban references India’s provisions for imprisonment and fines for perpetrators of corporal punishment in schools.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Incidents of corporal punishment are searingly described and impossible to forget.
    — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Severe disciplinary practices this year – that largely predate the pandemic – also included school officials calling police who may ticket or arrest students and corporal punishment, despite criticism from child behavioral experts.
    — Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 12 June 2023
  • Eventually amassing more than 1,000 followers, Dederich began controlling people's behavior, forcing vasectomies, abortions and divorces, encouraging women to shave their heads and promoting corporal punishment and violence.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024

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