Whipping in example sentence

While the EU question was weightier than the French one about constitutional procedural matters, it still wasn’t enough to discourage voters from pursuing other motives – above all, the desire to give the (pro-European) “establishment” a good symbolic whipping, seemingly at little to no cost.

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And then we were surprised when every ad hoc new measure didn't bring an end to the crisis, and of course that made it very easy to look for a whipping boy for our collective European failure, and of course that was Greece.

These devices were seen as a fantastic way of whipping prisoners into shape, and that added benefit of powering mills helped to rebuild a British economy decimated by the Napoleonic Wars.

He took a whipping for that for a long time, but he was a visionary, and he did those things that he knew was going to help the city.

It's very different from the career I had previously which was mountain climbing where you're in open spaces, the wind is whipping, it's very cold.

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