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How to use the word Corporal in a Sentence?

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They were shot in the head, corona Police Corporal will not know how many times or the exact entry point of the bullet( s) until the coroner performs their autopsies and writes their reports.

Corona Police Corporal Tobias Kouroubacalis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Brian LaVigne has been a part of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office family since 1990, and Brian LaVigne was just days away from retirement, we will never forget Master Corporal LaVigne for laying down Brian LaVigne life in the line of duty or the response of Brian LaVigne squad members who did everything they could to ensure that the individual responsible for Brian LaVigne death was apprehended.

Hillsboro County Sheriff Chad Chronister

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There probably is reverse causation, but one of the things that some of the longitudinal research suggests is that when you look at kids over time -- so controlling for baseline rates of misbehavior -- children who are disciplined with corporal punishment versus those who are not, who have the same kinds of behavior problems, show increases in behavior problems over time in a way that children who aren't disciplined that way don't, so yes, there is probably some truth to the idea that kids who are predisposed to misbehavior for whatever reason are more likely to be spanked by parents who use that form of discipline than kids who are less likely to misbehave for whatever reason.

Rebecca Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Witnessing corporal punishment by teachers sends a message to children themselves that violence is acceptable in schools, which it is not.

Claudia Cappa

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Schools are not as safe as they should be, because of bullying, because of corporal punishment by teachers, because of attacks on schools.

Claudia Cappa

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Iranian authorities’ prolific use of corporal punishment, including on children, demonstrates a shocking disregard for basic humanity, they should immediately abolish all forms of such punishment, which in Iran includes amputation and blinding as well as flogging.

Philip Luther

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I know that Police Brigadier General Tin Ko Ko instructed Police Lance Corporal Naing Lin to give Wa Lone documents related to our frontline activities in order to have him arrested.

Moe Yan Naing

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Police Brigadier General Tin Ko Ko gave the documents to Police Lance Corporal Naing Lin and told him to give them to Wa Lone and said that when Wa Lone comes out of the restaurant, the Htaunt Kyant regional police force has to entrap him and arrest him, police Brigadier General Tin Ko Ko told the police members, 'if you don't get Wa Lone, you will go to jail'.

Moe Yan Naing

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Police Brigadier Tin Ko Ko gave the documents to Police Lance Corporal Naing Lin and told him to give them to Wa Lone and said that when Wa Lone comes out of the restaurant, the Htaunt Kyant regional police force has to entrap him and arrest him, police Brigadier General Tin Ko Ko told the police members, 'if you don't get Wa Lone, you will go to jail'.

Moe Yan Naing

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.

Rajveer Purohit

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I think he’s smarter than I am. He’s not going to step in the same potholes, the industry has changed. It’s like the kind of film has changed. If you want to make substantial stories and things that are profound and mean something you kind of have to delve into the independent realm... He called Hacksaw Ridge a big independent film, noting that the film is not even that huge a budget or anything. Andrew Garfield plays Desmond T. Doss, a United States Army corporal and combat medic during WWII who won a Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to bear arms. Mel Gibson said bold men like Doss exist in the world today. MORE : Mel Gibson to be honored.

Brad Pitt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A voluntary stranding is a natural behavior of orcas living in the wild… The orcas at Loro Parque are trained to leave the water on their own accord. This behavior is used for manifold purposes, for example, for presenting the animals to the public, for conducting corporal check-ups, for inspecting their blowholes, as well as for testing hearing abilities of the orcas.

Loro Parque

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We demand the liberation of Corporal Villar and of citizen Ramon Cabrales, if they (ELN) want to begin any type of negotiation they must liberate these hostages.

President Juan Manuel Santos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It (corporal punishment) can't be excluded but it certainly was not genocide.

Vincenzo Criscuolo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's being in a state of hyper-alertness and being on guard for what's coming next, one researcher felt there was an educationally-induced post-traumatic stress disorder found in numerous kids who had experienced corporal punishment in schools.

Ann Budzak-Garza

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As a school board, we looked carefully at corporal punishment and made the determination that indeed there were other forms of discipline that were more effective.

Gail Smith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're very aware of Jeb Bush and his stance on corporal punishment.

James McNulty

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When the prosecutors are calling former chief of the General Staff of Turkey and hundreds of army generals as "terrorists" nobody is not offended but when I call him (current chief of General Staff) corporal he gets offended. (Referring to the detentions of many army generals for the alleged "Sledgehammer" coup plot trial; On the reaction for calling Necdet Özel (chief of GS) as a "only a corporal in our eyes" for his comments about education in Kurdish language.)

Selahattin Demirtas

added by okean
9 years ago

This punishment exposes the utter brutality of Iran's justice system and underlines the Iranian authorities' shocking disregard for basic humanity, meting out cruel and inhuman retribution punishments is not justice. Blinding, like stoning, amputation and flogging, is a form of corporal punishment prohibited by international law. Such punishments should not be carried out under any circumstances.

Amnesty International Iran researcher

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The world’s spotlight is shining on Saudi Arabia. If authorities ignore widespread criticism and unashamedly continue with the flogging of Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia would be demonstrating contempt for international law and disregard for world opinion, flogging and other forms of corporal judicial punishment violate the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment. By continuing to dole out this inhuman punishment the Saudi Arabian authorities are flagrantly flouting basic human rights principles.

Said Boumedouha

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.

Elaine Richards

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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