hangings
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. "You want to tell me what this is?” he demanded. "It's a door, Jace,” said Clary.
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
I very much enjoyed working on the drawing, so much so that I made a whole series of small watercolors that I can use at any time for application on embroidered purses, pillows, rugs and wall hangings.
Britton (ed.) 1978, p. 53 Nevertheless, Phillip believed in discipline; floggings and hangings were commonplace, although Philip commuted many death sentences.