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- noun Plural form of
flogging .
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Examples
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Public executions and punishments (such as floggings) became regular events at Afghan soccer stadiums.
The Big Picture vikr@mindspring.com 2010
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The beheading of opponents was common and brutal punishments, such as floggings, were often carried out in public, as the radical Islamists sought to impose their brand of strict sharia in the region.
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As an adult, he suffered “many severe floggings” for neglecting his work and for stealing.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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No, we would have to allow floggings because floggings are good and appropriate.
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But in a country founded by followers of the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, women are uniformly denied driver's licenses and risk sentences of fines, jail or floggings for driving.
Saudi Women, in a Shift, Sue for Right to Drive Ellen Knickmeyer 2012
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The protesters are under no illusion that the factory whistle will blow and call them back to work, or that the rich will stop the financial floggings on their own initiative.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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Their demands are inevitably more specific than those of revolutionaries, since rebels want the exact things they used to have, whether it is a freedom from daily floggings or a return to lower gas prices.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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Steve2: No, we would have to allow floggings because floggings are good and appropriate.
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Their demands are inevitably more specific than those of revolutionaries, since rebels want the exact things they used to have, whether it is a freedom from daily floggings or a return to lower gas prices.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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The protesters are under no illusion that the factory whistle will blow and call them back to work, or that the rich will stop the financial floggings on their own initiative.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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