Corporal Sentence Examples

The corporal came, according to orders, to shut the door.

In addition to the franchise, immunity from corporal punishment (even in the field) was promised the Latins.

His temptation was removed by the Host beginning to bleed, the blood soaking through the corporal into the marble of the altar.

The slaves were bound to work for their masters during this period for three-fourths of the day, and were to be liable to corporal punishment if they did not give the due amount of labour.

The object was to perform the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Legislative divorces are forbidden by the constitution, and a statute of 1901 subjects wife-beaters to corporal punishment.

And the corporal leaned against the door and offered Pierre his pipe, though whenever he offered it Pierre always declined it.

His most manly taste did not rise above the kind of military interest which has been defined as "corporal's mania," the passion for uniforms, pipeclay, buttons, the "tricks of parade and the froth of discipline."

Ryan is a Lance Corporal in the Slough Company of the Boys Brigade and he is a keen cook.

I say this, because David later went on to become a corporal in the Machine Gun Corps.

Sedgewick has been made an unpaid lance corporal and I have lost him for good.

It was somewhere along this ridge that a young German corporal, Adolf Hitler earned an Iron Cross.

Can't help thinking the little corporal was quite right.

Regards from a suddenly ancient feeling 42 year old ex corporal.

He's all for bringing back corporal punishment in schools too.

Adrian was just 25 when he died on February 6. A former RAF corporal from South Yorkshire, he first showed symptoms last March.

Consequently corporal and even capital punishment occupy a far less prominent position, and tend everywhere to disappear.

In the English criminal law, where corporal punishment is ordered by the court for certain criminal offences, the "cat" is used only where the prisoner is over sixteen years of age.

He had aristocratic privileges and responsibilities, the right to exact retaliation for corporal injuries, and liability to heavier punishment for crimes and misdemeanours, higher fees and fines to pay.

He was free, but had to accept monetary compensation for corporal injuries, paid smaller fees and fines, even paid less offerings to the gods.

This is awarded by the Code for corporal injuries to a muskinu or slave (paid to his master); for damages done to property, for breach of contract.

It was only as late as 1904, however, that the landed proprietors were forbidden by law to inflict corporal punishment upon the peasants.

All blasphemies against God, as denying His being, or providence, all contumelious reproaches of Jesus Christ, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures, or exposing any part thereof to contempt or ridicule, are punishable by the temporal courts with fine, imprisonment and also infamous corporal punishment.

It was begun by Ugolino Vieri of Siena in 1337, and was made to contain the Holy Corporal from Bolsena, which, according to the legend, became miraculously stained with blood during the celebration of mass to convince a sceptical priest of the truth of the doctrine of transubstantiation.

He now entered the artillery regiment, La Fere, quartered at Valence, and went through all the duties imposed on privates, and thereafter those of a corporal and a sergeant.

By his wife Margarethe Schleierweber, the daughter of a French corporal, but renowned for her beauty and intellectual gifts, he was the father of Karl Friedrich Moritz Paul von Briihl (1772-1837), the friend of Goethe, who as intendant-general of the Prussian royal theatres was of some importance in the history of the development of the drama in Germany.

They can impose fines for small offences not worth sending bef ore the inspector, and, in cases of high misdemeanour, have the power of inflicting corporal punishment.

Of the criminal law clauses, as many as 238 are taken up with tariffs of fines, while 80 treat of capital and corporal punishment, outlawry and confiscation, and to' include rules of procedure.

Royalty and the Church, when they acquire the lead in social life, work out a new penal system based on outlawry, death penalties and corporal punishments, which make their first appearance in the legislation of Withraed and culminate in that of !Ethelred and Canute.

He was an ardent social reformer; he secured the abolition of corporal punishment in the schools, the suppression of lotteries, of houses of ill-fame and of obscene literature; he instituted reforms in the hospitals, and insisted on the honours of public burial for the poor.

In 1869 an Irish lad, O'Connor, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and a whipping for presenting a pistol at the queen, with a petition, in St James's Park; but this time it was the queen herself who privately remitted the corporal punishment, and she even pushed clemency to the length of sending her aggressor to Australia at her own expense.

In 1791 he joined the volunteers of the Ain, and was elected by his comrades successively corporal and sergeant.

Cleburne, one of the best division commanders of the South, had been a corporal in the British army.

One was the strict limitation of corporal punishment to offences of mutiny and gross personal violence to officers, where previously it might be inflicted for many forms of misconduct, and it can only now be adjudged under great restrictions.

The familiarity thus acquired with military life and character stood Sterne in good stead when he drew the portraits of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.

Besides the ordinary judges there were the extraordinary tribunals, the court of high commission nominated by the crown to punish ecclesiastical offenders, and the court of star chamber, composed of the privy councillors and the chief justices, and therefore also nominated by the crown, to inflict fine, imprisonment, and even corporal mutilation.

He was a Methodist circuit rider and pastor in Indiana and Minnesota (18J7-1866); associate editor (1866-1867) of The Little Corporal, Chicago; editor of The National Sunday School Teacher, Chicago (1867-1870); literary editor and later editor-in-chief of The Independent, New York (1870-1871); and editor of Hearth and Home in 1871-1872.

They arrested former lance corporal Leslie Skinner who had been a training instructor at the camp.

Not even people serving in the armed forces receive corporal punishment, I know and have served, why should kids?

Hanging an inmate and injecting them leads to never ending corporal punishment.

Corporal Kirby had shown great gallantry in the face of the enemy for the third time.

The graves bear the inscriptions " Corporal J TAYLOR.

Is The Da Vinci Code's portayal of corporal mortification accurate?

British Military Aviation in 1996 March Corporal Tracey Wardle becomes the first woman to join the RAF regiment.

Learn a syncopated rhythm against a steady vamp using corporal sounds.

Corporal Wood's platoon sergeant was killed, the onus being placed on Corporal Wood to become its leader.

A Corporal; his shoulder knot is of white worsted.

In concert with Jeanne Francoise Fremyot (1572-1641), widow of the baron de Chantal, whose acquaintance he made while preaching through Lent at Dijon in 1604, he founded the order of the Visitation, in favour of "strong souls with weak bodies," as he said, deterred from entering the orders already existing, by their inability to undertake severe corporal austerities.

This third visit to the great city lasted from the autumn of 1618 to that of 1619; the direct object of it was to assist in negotiating the marriage of the prince of Piedmont with Chretienne of France, but nearly all his time was spent in preaching and works of mercy, spiritual or corporal.

Some of the more oppressive measures of the previous reign were abolished; the clergy, the nobles and the merchants were exempted from corporal punishment; the central organs of administration were modernized and the Council of the Empire was created; the idea of granting a constitution was academically discussed; great schemes for educating the people were entertained; parish schools, gymnasia, training colleges and ecclesiastical seminaries were founded; the existing universities of Moscow, Vilna and Dorpat were reorganized and new ones founded in Kazan and Kharkov; the great work of serf-emancipation was begun in the Baltic provinces.

The punishment was death in various forms, burning alive, mutilation, torture or corporal punishment.

It is the privilege of the archdeacon of Canterbury to induct the archbishop and all the bishops of the province of Canterbury into their respective bishoprics, and this he does in the case of a bishop under a mandate from the archbishop of Canterbury, directing him to induct the bishop into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the bishopric, and to install and to enthrone him; and in the case of the archbishop, under an analogous mandate from the dean and chapter of Canterbury, as being guardians of the spiritualities during the vacancy of the archiepiscopal see.

In March 1906 a motion censuring Lord Milner for an infraction of the Chinese labour ordinance, in not forbidding light corporal punishment of coolies for minor offences in lieu of imprisonment, was moved by a Radical member of the House of Commons.

You'd look fine, said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under the weight of his knapsack.

He was in a state of physical suffering as if from corporal punishment, and could not avoid expressing it by cries of anger and distress.

A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink.

Sokolov, one of the soldiers in the shed with Pierre, was dying, and Pierre told the corporal that something should be done about him.

And after chatting a while longer, the corporal went away.

Just as Pierre reached the door, the corporal who had offered him a pipe the day before came up to it with two soldiers.

The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces.

But even as he spoke he began to doubt whether this was the corporal he knew or a stranger, so unlike himself did the corporal seem at that moment.

In the corporal's changed face, in the sound of his voice, in the stirring and deafening noise of the drums, he recognized that mysterious, callous force which compelled people against their will to kill their fellow men--that force the effect of which he had witnessed during the executions.

The captain was also in marching kit, and on his cold face appeared that same it which Pierre had recognized in the corporal's words and in the roll of the drums.

During the hour Pierre watched them they all came flowing from the different streets with one and the same desire to get on quickly; they all jostled one another, began to grow angry and to fight, white teeth gleamed, brows frowned, ever the same words of abuse flew from side to side, and all the faces bore the same swaggeringly resolute and coldly cruel expression that had struck Pierre that morning on the corporal's face when the drums were beating.

British Military Aviation in 1996 March Corporal Tracey Wardle becomes the first woman to join the RAF Regiment.

During the season premiere in June 2007, Garcia was touted as a "graduate of the New York Restaurant School" and was a Marine corporal who served as cook in Afghanistan.

In other countries, children are commonly treated in a harsh, strict manner, using shame or corporal punishment for discipline.

Corporal punishment involves the application of some sort of physical pain in response to a child's undesired behavior.

Because of this range in form and severity, the use of corporal punishment as a disciplinary method is controversial.

Children who receive corporal punishment tend to grow into angry adults.

The two types typically used with children are verbal reprimands and punishment involving physical pain, as in corporal punishment.

Corporal punishment such as spanking or slapping is a practice that currently gets little support from health professionals and educators.

Corporal Brandon Riedel turned on his dashboard camera after sighting an unusual looking creature running down a dirt road just ahead of him.

Soon it is down to Ripley, Newt, the android Bishop (played by Lance Henriksen) and Corporal Hicks (Michael Beihn, who also played soldier of the future Kyle Reese in Cameron's earlier Terminator) to get away.

Aaron is visited by Corporal Willingham who gives him Tracy's pocket knife.

Hope that Tracy is alive is rekindled, but the Corporal tells him that he saw her dead after the attack.

The jurisdiction was something jointly shared with the temporal power in case corporal punishment were involved.

He began by repealing Catherine's law which exempted the free classes of the population of Russia from corporal punishment and mutilation.

I am not merely civil to him but obey him like a corporal, though I am his senior.

When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him.

This red-haired man was neither a sergeant nor a corporal, but being robust he ordered about those weaker than himself.

His articles on corporal punishment, which appeared in Russkaya Starina in 1881, brought about its abolition.

Some of the prisoners who had heard Pierre talking to the corporal immediately asked what the Frenchman had said.

The corporal frowned at Pierre's words and, uttering some meaningless oaths, slammed the door.

Here corporal as well as spiritual punishment was endured; it was inflicted on apostate Jews or the wicked generally; the righteous witnessed its initial stages but not its final form.

In the medieval Church there were seven "corporal" and seven "spiritual works of mercy" (opera misericordiae); these were (a) the giving of food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty, the clothing of the naked, the visitation of the sick and of prisoners, the receiving of strangers, and the burial of the dead; (b) the conversion of sinners, teaching of the ignorant, giving of counsel to the doubtful, forgiveness of injuries, patience under wrong, prayer for the living and for the dead.

Corporal, what will they do with the sick man?...