Long term readers will recognise the pattern of sudden, annoying innovation, briefly flogged then permanently abandoned. |
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A mother brings her truant son to school to be flogged for neglecting his studies in favour of gambling. |
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Anyone publishing it should be shanghaied aboard a hell-ship and flogged through the horse latitudes. |
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These days he would be thrown out of the force for saying that, if not arrested and flogged. |
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The colonel begged me to accompany him to the guard-room, to see the thieving soldier flogged. |
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Shares in World Online have taken a good kicking since it emerged she flogged loads of hers ahead of the float last month. |
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There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards. |
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The story suffocates under endless speechifying and analysis in which each point is flogged to death. |
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The Alhambra was the place to be and tickets were flogged on the black market. |
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The usual crucifixion began with the victim being flogged and severely beaten. |
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Often miles of river will be almost devoid of decent fish, whilst a few hot pegs will be flogged to death. |
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He had frequently seen the backs of sailors, who had been flogged, embrocated with Salted Brandy. |
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Anyone caught with a copy was flogged in the stadium before a jeering crowd of onlookers. |
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That sort of behaviour could get her flogged, or at the vest least locked in a pillory for a while. |
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The victim had been flogged with chains and stabbed with cut glass while tied to a black wooden table in the altar room of the church. |
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Some of the crowd threw stones at him as he was flogged, hands tied to a pole. |
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In the midst of it all, I found that for every person who publicly flogged me there was another who agreed with my position entirely. |
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Was it Pontius Pilate and the Roman soldiers who had flogged him, beaten him, and crucified him? |
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Peter felt this question, asked only out of concern and worry, to be the final stroke of the whip of ignominy that had flogged him all afternoon. |
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I was electrocuted, flogged, whipped and left to stand outside at night in the rain. |
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The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death. |
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Pay equity has been flogged like a dead horse, but I think there are some points that should be looked at within the military on pay equity. |
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The new leader did very little other than regurgitate a tired old line that seemed to have been flogged to death by many a centre-right politician. |
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Defectors and apostates can't be fined, flogged or banished. |
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However, there's a danger that a successful formula be flogged to death. |
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The book is 479 pages long and is flogged as a no-holds-barred tell-all. |
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I could hear the milk-maids' buckets clatter, the cows lowing in the dell, and the indentured servant boy's tortured cries as he was being flogged. |
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In one recent case, he said a man accused of kidnapping was hung from an iron bar and flogged with a machete. |
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Since December 21, we have been flogged with news item after news item about the threatened closure of Russian adoption. |
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In at least 33 States children are still being whipped or flogged as a sentence of the courts. |
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Scientific societies initially treated the scheme as a crackpot's dream, but he doggedly flogged it for 20 years. |
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Also, as he cut and sliced, smote exuberantly and flogged, the consequences of what he was doing became apparent. |
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Recently an MP in the Siberian region of Zabaikalsk called for a law allowing gays to be publicly flogged by Cossacks. |
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Since 2002, more than 35,000 people have been caned or flogged, most of them irregular migrants. |
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If you spoke while you were milking, you were flogged with a stockwhip. |
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He was flogged, shipwrecked, imprisoned, and followed around by a group of vehement opponents who wanted new followers of Jesus to revert back to old religious ideas. |
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Here participant bonding and brotherhood is eminently exhibited when they are unsympathetically flogged by the beggars. |
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Before my doctrine triumphs over the evilness of men, it must be flogged and mocked, just as Christ suffered on the cross. |
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Jesus was then examined, severely flogged, and mocked. |
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They gave him an opportunity to apostatize and then tied him to a hedge and flogged him. |
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If we worked too slowly, we were flogged with a bullwhip. |
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They ensured good behaviour by having miscreants publicly flogged. Today's referees lack such deterrents and professional sportsmen can transgress in a way that their classical predecessors could scarcely have imagined. |
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Like Raif Badawi, imprisoned and flogged in Saudi Arabia, the brave men who have been murdered are guilty of nothing more than honesty and integrity. |
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Candide is flogged and his tutor hanged, though he survives the ordeal. |
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In one crucial respect the infrastructure for CDSs failed horribly: the unnoticed accumulation by AIG, an insurer-turned-derivatives-trader, of huge potential liabilities as it flogged protection against default. |
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People on site, including Canadian entrepreneurs, flogged their own interests, if I may put it that way, in order to do more business in Colombia. |
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The firm launched carbon-neutral lingerie last year and have flogged 170,000 bras so far. |
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By manipulating the judiciary in some countries, anyone with even a modicum of political, economic or military power can exact revenge with complete impunity by sending journalists to prison or having them flogged. |
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It could be unmined gold, so-called rare metals, or coloured diamonds, all of which have been flogged by sharks in recent months. |
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The store launched carbon-neutral lingerie last year and has flogged 170,000 bras so far. |
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The more I get flogged, the more they jail me, the steelier my will to fight for human rights becomes. |
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To restore order, several soldiers were flogged and four hanged. |
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Prasutagus's widow, Boudica, was flogged, and her daughters were raped. |
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Fisher fainted when he witnessed eight men being flogged on his first day. |
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He did not explain why the Romans pillaged the kingdom, why they took the lands of the chiefs or why Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped. |
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According to Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. |
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In just six months in charge Gary Rowett has turned St Andrew's from a venue of self-flagellation into one where it's the visitors who fear being flogged. |
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Biebouw was flogged for his insolence and later banished to Jakarta. |
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Nor has one heard of anyone being flogged for qazf under this Ordinance. |
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