1.   Before the attack on her husband, Linda Peden had a tolerance for the punishment beatings typical of working-class neighborhoods in Belfast.

2.   Blom-Cooper, a British appeals court judge and a noted civil libertarian, said paramilitary groups on both sides continue to engage in punishment beatings and racketeering.

3.   Clinton has made it clear he wants paramilitaries to stop their punishment beatings of petty hoodlums and dissidents.

4.   Punishment beatings by the IRA are common, especially for joyriders who steal cars.

5.   This touches on halting a range of violent behavior that includes blackmailing, racketeering, robberies and punishment beatings by IRA members.

6.   Punishment beatings are meted in their own communities by paramilitaries, both by Protestants and by the Catholic-based IRA.

7.   Despite its cease-fire, the IRA has continued to inflict so-called punishment beatings and shootings on people accused of criminal behavior.

8.   In the face of mounting criticism, the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party has stuck to its ambiguous position on punishment beatings and killings.

9.   The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party has stuck doggedly to its own carefully ambiguous position on punishment beatings and killings.

10.   In the same period last year there was reported to have been only one punishment beating.