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Of course, they might have a thrashing sometimes for letting their fancy run away with them and to teach them their place, but no more; in fact, even this isn't necessary as they castigate themselves, for they are very conscientious: some perform this service for one another and others chastise themselves with their own hands.

'The Alchemist' castigates quackery and its foolish encouragers; and

It is easy to castigate the life of a madressah student but it is much difficult to assert the fact that what is taught in modern educational institutions is far more deadly for the soul, especially for the Muslims.

'MPs who now castigate the rejection of the report in funerals did not speak that day.

"These dolls are used to castigate black people, categorising people from a black African and Caribbean heritage.

Time for MPs to hear our concern IT isn't very often that an MP speaks the truth, but it seems when one actually does MPs of all parties castigate them for daring to say what the majority of this country already know.

Ms Price resoundingly defeated her opponent "I'd never castigate a Tory for drinking cheap bitter, so I don't think the Tories should castigate me for drinking quality champagne" Steve Coogan, above, who apparently does not mind being described as a champagne socialist "It's time to make the case against the most vicious Tory toffocracy in living memory" Sally Bercow, wife of the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, saying that Labour appears to have rolled over and surrendered

Whilst the likes of Derek Simpson castigate the factory owner, a person who has invested everything in industry for the betterment of himself and his workers, they sit in luxury giving workers the impression that they are fighting from the same base breadline.

It isn't helpful to castigate a patient about his years of smoking when you are trying to treat his lung cancer.

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer has pointed out that alongside of the social trend of "defining deviancy down," is the movement to "define deviancy up." In other words, as people come to accept homosexual behaviour as normal, they inevitably begin to castigate those who hold to traditional heterosexual norms.