Chastening, then, that there are only eight of them after 66 years of building.

"The Chastening" is a little hard going at times.

"The health of the world economy depends, in substantial measure, on how that chastening is translated into action," he writes.

And in "The Chastening" he tells the story with admirable aplomb.

But I wonder how this chastening of Aillas is to be accomplished."

Surely humans, too, must be prey to the power of the seasons, the return of light and the chastening of night.

For a young woman to dream of a cloister, foretells that her life will be made unselfish by the chastening of sorrow.

Thus, Isaiah's chastening of Hezekiah is due to his alliances made with other countries during the Assyrian conflict for insurance, if you will.

Even after the bitter chastening of the Corsair affair, Kierkegaard continued to walk the streets of Copenhagen.

According to the book The Chastening, by Paul Blustein, during this crisis, Summers, along with Paul Wolfowitz, pushed for regime change in Indonesia.

I assume that this has a good deal more to do with temperament and with political calculation than with post-60's ideological chastening; but it does expose a political problem inherent in moderation.

Some challenged the wasteland in the name of cartology, determined to map the place for those who might come after them, only, to discover that there was nothing to map but the chastening of their spirit.

JOB: A Comedy of Justice Robert A. Heinlein Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of The Almighty.

THE CHASTENING Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF.

The destruction of Iraqi military power, the diplomatic chastening of the Palestine Liberation Organization, enhanced American prestige in the region and Syria's desire to make a deal over the Golan Heights portended historic breakthroughs.

The Holocaust set a new standard of evil, "crime against humanity," requiring not only the punishment of those who actively perpetrated it and the chastening of those who silently condoned it, but also the atonement of an entire people.

But as the publication of "The Chastening" (Public Affairs, $30), by Paul Blustein, reminds the reader, this has been a half-decade of financial roller coasters, beginning with the Asian and Russian financial crises of the late 1990's.

Monteverdi, she believes, sought to represent in music the eventual triumph of female piety over promiscuity: "Arianna's gradual loss of her passionate self in the lament constitutes a public musical chastening of this incautious woman who dared to choose her own mate".

Now he is contemplating nothing less than an Israeli political realignment, one that would give political expression to the chastening of both the left and the right: it would accept the possibility of some limited form of Palestinian state but also the improbability of any peace with the Palestinians.

By 1950 leading figures like Erik Erikson and Spock were already presenting their advice with less scientific bravura than their predecessors had, and more recent decades have brought a further chastening of claims about alternative approaches to parenting as evidence has mounted in favor of other influences, particularly heredity and peers.

But at the same time, these challenges have caused the Government to tighten up internally, diplomats say, with an evident chastening of Mr. Hun Sen, who is also Foreign Minister, by older, senior party leaders more skeptical of the West, closer to Vietnam and more concerned about their own positions in a post-settlement government.

It would at least make a change to be chastened by another voice.

I meant to say that Clinton was chastened by the 1994 results.

She asked me with her cold smile whether I had been chastened yet.

For the vision of others has never guided or chastened him.

It is right that I should be chastened in some penalty.

What remains to be seen is whether investors, chastened by the events of the last month, will give them one.

Even the most aggressive, it appears, can be chastened by experience.

"No, I think you're chastened enough for me to believe that.

Many people here said they had already been chastened by prior experience with drinking and driving.

He was suddenly grateful she had chastened him so mildly.

Saves money and chastens the wicked, or so they say.

Then, when he had gone to work, she wept for a whole day, and was much chastened in spirit.

But analysts said the party had been chastened by the strong showing of its opponents.

They were not to be chastened by homilies like children at a Sunday school.

It was chastening to hear his own thoughts come back at him from the princess' mouth.

Tomorrow, she chastened herself, the police could find something.

"But whoever won would be severely chastened by this case."

Meanwhile he felt remarkably well, though greatly chastened in mind.

These are not happy folk chastened by an occasional disaster.

Chastened the two drunks moved off, out of the lobby, into the night.

But it is not too late for him to be chastened by the spirit of Monticello.

But liberalism, chastened by its years in the cold, is making a sudden comeback.

"Be quiet," she snapped across to them, and almost all were chastened into silence.

"I thought that my leave of absence was designed to chasten me.

"His attitudes are exasperating; I feel that he needs to be chastened."