Sentences with phrase «public chastisements»
Such public chastisements are highly unusual for the Vatican.
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She notes in a recent article for a professional journal that at least one GFI publication she has reviewed advised parents to avoid spanking their children in public, to be careful about neighbors hearing their children's cries in apartment buildings and «to instruct one's children not to tell anyone — even the child's other parent in a divorce situation — about occurring chastisement (GFI's euphemism for corporal punishment), due to potential «misunderstandings.»»
Though the chastisement from the Board of Ethics wound up the current Zatz administration on a sour note, the year's last Town Board meeting did not end without a round of applause from the audience and some warm words of appreciation for the outgoing public officials.
Despite the chastisements, Alexander said he was rooting for King and hoped the public would be as supportive of the law at the end of this year as it was last December.