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How to use the word beatings in a Sentence?

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Govt PSU shares have got the maximum beatings and gone down ruthlessly since Oct'21 during this stock market carnage and this clearly shows that this fall is fishy and big corporates along with govt politicians and news media are playing game plan to malign the image of PSUs to promote privatization and loot public investors money

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

She suffered some injuries from some of the beatings. There was pushing and shoving by the crowd. I told her not to give up.

Hans Wright

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.

Chuck Peruto

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The most brutal beatings were happening all around : hits, screams, cries and shrieks coming from everywhere, i felt that some of the detained had broken bones -- hands, legs, spines -- because with the tiniest bit of movement they wailed in pain.

Nikita Telizhenko

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Where there are monks and priests, there is adultery and beatings.

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

These practices are taking more dramatic and inhumane shapes, where in addition to beatings, people are being ... degraded and treated as non-humans, and of course are illegally pushed back into Serbia.

Rados Djurovic

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While in custody the men were tortured by security officers including through electric shocks and beatings. Ali Mohamed al-Arab's toenails were also ripped out.

Amnesty International

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I had other problems — I dressed nicely. I used words that were not monosyllabic. I aspired to go to Harvard University or Yale. The DCYF receptionist and the security guard would nod and smile at the narrative for my future. The social workers would counsel me to dress with baggy jeans and speak like a child so as to not elicit beatings by the other kids.” Excerpt From: Nicholas Alahverdian. “Ignoble Inferno/ The Nicholas Alahverdian Lawsuit.” iBooks.

Nicholas Alahverdian

added by anonymous
5 years ago

I was subjected to torture, beatings, assault in various forms. I was refused to contact anybody, anybody at all, he said.These facilities are dangerous. My question to Rhode Island, 'Why are we paying for them? Nicholas Alahverdian said.

Nicholas Alahverdian

added by anonymous
5 years ago

He treated me horribly, then when the beatings became every day, I went to the police station.

Read MorePre-teen bride Amal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There have been lots of arrests and lots of beatings, unfortunately many of them have been tolerated by local leadership or even by municipal police... and justified within the current security situation, what is concerning for us is not just retaliatory arrests but general xenophobia.

George Ghali of Lebanese rights

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When you combine those emotions with the memories of the physical trauma being on a boat for several weeks or having been confined in brutal smugglers camps, then the trauma is compounded, in some cases the asylum seekers and migrants endured starvation, beatings, extortion, and rape.

Jeff Labovitz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I learned that many of them had been cheated of their wages, subjected to beatings and in some cases, sexually assaulted by the ships' officers, it's hard to talk about these experiences for men. Most of them rather pretend it never happened.

Daren Coulston

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No, because there's so many. There's so many, there are so many reasons for the jarrings, for the beatings. Not just IEDs, not just car bombs, not just in a firefight or grenades going off.

Shane Garcie

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's like it only counts as a human rights problem if there are literal beatings, camps, but the entire system is brutal and inhumane. The way the surveillance is run ... The physical aspect is just one side of the experience.

Jang Jin-sung

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.

William Wordsworth

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.

Dr. Jose P. Rizal

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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