How To Use Inflict In A Sentence

Though manœuvring went on for four days and a good deal of damage was inflicted, the result was indecisive, no ships being captured or sunk.
And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
However, the destruction of so many kamikaze flights did a great deal to undermine the potential for damage that the kamikazes could have inflicted.
The alleged sexual and physical assault was inflicted on a young Latvian man at Station Road, Portarlington recently.
They inflicted severe psychological damage on their opponents.

Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
How much evil is the current government going to inflict on our world before we wake up and boot them out?
Perhaps she could don a suit and fix a sport dying from self-inflicted cuts? Times, Sunday Times
Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
_Torment_ comes from _tormentum_, a machine (engine) for throwing stones to inflict _torture_. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
Instead of trying to undo the damage inflicted by the villain, Captain Nero (played by Eric Bana), the challenge for our heroes is to stop Nero from causing any further damage. Star Trek 2009 Feature Film Review | Fan Cinema Today
Potential lethal cardiac arrhythmias and convulsions are recognised complications of both iatrogenic and self inflicted overdoses.
On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain. CHAPTER XII
It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
On this day in 1940 Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.
It is, to say the least, uncomfortable seeing such pain inflicted on an innocent man.
He who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics
Both sets of norms rest ultimately upon a fundamental principle of proscription concerning the infliction of militarily ' unnecessary suffering '.
As estimated by the staff of the Joint Force, around two-thirds of losses were inflicted by snipers operating within such parties, who would fire from embrasures in basement walls, top-story windows and roofs.
Snappers strike viciously when lifted from water or teased and can inflict a serious bite.
If only she would just trundle around in her old caravan rather than inflict her incompetence on the rest of us. The Sun
We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another. Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?
Experts claim that at least half were inflicted well before the fatal blow.
Perseverance in the face of adversity is always a welcome attribute, even if that adversity is sometimes self-inflicted.
They are less about winning hearts and minds than inflicting shock and awe. The Times Literary Supplement
And the privilege, ancient though it be, to beat her with a stick, to pull her hair, choke her, spit in her face or kick her about the floor, or to inflict upon her like indignities, is not now acknowledged by our law .... 'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
Uncle Alphonse had a strap hanging on the inside of the door to the bathroom that he used on Mick and Caesare with liberal and gleeful intent, recalling, perhaps, the beat - ings his father had inflicted on him in the "backhouse," as the outhouse was called. Second Skin
I have read this story and I feel sick and angry for the senseless pain inflicted on these women and girls. Afghan women hiding for their lives
Alongside the land side Japanese defences, the Japanese high command put their faith in the kamikazes which it was believed would inflict such serious casualties on the Americans in Okinawa that they would retreat.
Some prison facilities… are notorious for the cruel and prolonged acts of torture inflicted upon political opponents of the Government.
Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
Norman Solomon: Well, what goes by the term conservative is too often a sort of a euphemism for dog eat dog, whoever comes out on top, we believe in the survival of the fittest – a sort of perversion of Darwinism taken into a social realm, where generally, the predatory nature in the animal kingdom of one category of animal inflicted on another is sort of mimicked and replicated. Failed Conservative Values: Norman Solomon on Dog Eat Dog Greed
I feel hustle and bustle may be enough to inflict damage in the group stage but once the games become one-offs and we have to go the extra mile to carve out victories I feel we will be once again found lacking.
He saves his arm strength and uses his horse's speed and power to inflict the deep wounds and deathblows.
The parties are no longer merely scrutinising bills; they are trying to kill them, inflicting maximum damage on the other side. Times, Sunday Times
The chemicals, confiscated from Hitler's Third Reich at the end of the second world war, were mustard gas, phosgene, tabun and lewisite, all of which can inflict appalling injuries.
Rebels say they have inflicted heavy casualties on government forces.
The USDA's Horse Protection Program is meant to protect these wonderful animals, ensuring that Tennessee Walking Horses are not subjected to the abusive practice of "soring" -- the intentional infliction of pain to a horse's legs or hooves in order to force an artificial, exaggerated gait. Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
Teenage troublemakers who are causing upset in a corner of Morecambe are being warned against inflicting further misery on residents.
Heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy.
John, who, in the most abject terms besought pardon for the injuries he had inflicted. The Boy Knight
The troubled star's sacking from the hit TV show "Two and a Half Men" Monday came after the 45-year-old hurled himself into what Warner Brothers called his "self-inflicted disintegration" over the past two weeks. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
But remember, the hand that inflicts the wound also holds the cure.
Voicing various concerns, including claims that Capital was "overpaying" for the shopping centre and transferring control to Peel "while failing to extract a premium for it", the US group's chief executive, David Simon, said the company was "disappointed by the profound value destruction proposed to be inflicted on CSC and its shareholders". The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Nature and animals eased the pain humans inflicted,' she says softly. Times, Sunday Times
They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.
Overgrazing and climate change have inflicted enormous damage on the grasslands that provide their livelihood. Times, Sunday Times
He and Wazzock have decided to team up with the common goal of inflicting some misery on the troubled teenager.
It takes multiple centuries for dysgenics to inflict a significant toll or, on the flip side, traditional eugenics to achieve anything; history is now moving too quickly for that sort of thing to be relevant. Where Dysgenics Goes Wrong: Comparative Advantage Strikes Again, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
WHAT a ridiculous farce our politicians have inflicted on themselves over pay. The Sun
But this can only be done at the expense of human rights, as can be seen in the systematic torture inflicted on political detainees.
And if he helps inflict defeat on Warrington, they could be cursing the one that got away. The Sun
In 1783 and 1784, Tipu inflicts a series of crushing defeats on the armies of the East India Company.
Each German soldier should consider himself ‘the bearer of an inexorable national idea and the avenger of all bestialities inflicted upon the German people and its racial kin’. Sealing Their Fate
Their deception has inflicted immeasurable pain and misery on the victims. The Sun
Nor will any one of the rulers in the Churches, however highly gifted he may be in point of eloquence, teach doctrines different from these (for no one is greater than the Master); nor, on the other hand, will he who is deficient in power of expression inflict injury on the tradition. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
It is unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment on pupils.
NEW YORK - Wendy's new CEO on Monday called the dour results of the past few years "self-inflicted wounds" and vowed to do better, laying... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Policies motivated by political gain will inflict public pain.
Tragically, every effort to actualize such ideological illusions inflicts collective trauma on those who are attacked, and they respond with an intensification of their resurrective ideologies. Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
It will soon be well known that the surest way to inflict pain upon you is to extol the excellences or to dwell on the happiness of others, and your failings will be considered an amusing subject for jesting observation to experimentalize upon. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
She was a cruel and vicious woman, and did not hesitate to inflict pain upon her inferiors, be they slaves, servants, or her own flesh and blood.
I told her a half-arsed lie about inflicting the wound on myself while thinking of her. Potsdamer Strasse
The pig whisperer: Author Jeffrey Masson explores the emotions of - and cruelty inflicted upon - the most unglamorous animals
Damage to the property of another injuria datum was the subject matter of the Aquilian Law, and the damage must have been inflicted by a freedman; if by a slave, it was a noxal tort; if by a quadruped, the tort and liability were designated pauperies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
He's a curious figure - Oscar Wilde meets an Andy Warhol superstar with a punk-rock haircut, a coiffure he inflicted on himself the day after Joe Strummer died.
And this time, the defeat of a civilisation will have been inflicted by its own side.
Mortars in particular seemed indiscriminate in inflicting casualties.
We refer here not only to the daily shootings, the bestialities inflicted on demonstrators and detainees and the vicious campaign of terror carried out against all who are opposed to the apartheid system - churchmen, whole religious communities, students, professors and teachers, workers, peasants, mothers and even children. WE HAVE DECIDED TO LIBERATE OURSELVES
More Bernanke: European Troubles 'as Much Political' as Economic Sen. Shelby Cautions Bernanke Against QE3 Fed Chief Open to New Options Bernanke Shifts Tone on Further Easing Not taking proper action "would be a self-inflicted wound," he said, because it would raise U.S. interest rates and increase the government's borrowing costs and the deficit. Fed Chief Cool on More Bond Purchases
The gator pulled her under water and inflicted severe bites on her arms, legs and midsection.
Taunts that players receive when they're involved in road games may be brutal, but they don't inflict as much hurt as the barbs tossed at them by fans in their home park.
At Trebizond, a young man, refusing to sign the recantation, was beaten on the soles of his feet, the vartabed aiding with his own hands in inflicting the blows. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
Please unhand me, I do not wish to inflict harm.
The workout: the slide rule jockeys at the Olympic Training Center love to inflict this VO2 test on racewalkers.
The parties are no longer merely scrutinising bills; they are trying to kill them, inflicting maximum damage on the other side. Times, Sunday Times
The gratitude of his family spoke volumes about the suffering my trade can inflict on the innocent. Times, Sunday Times
Was it really fair to her friends to inflict her nephew on them?
As the only one of the white lady volunteers who spoke the language of the Chinese inmates, Pearl heard atrocious accounts of physical and mental abuse, violence, torture, starvation, and rape inflicted on girls thrown out or sold by their families into forced labor, working in brothels or as domestic slaves terrorized by the mistress of the household and passed from hand to hand by the master, his sons, and his menservants. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
It is important that self-inflicted injuries are responded to in a calm and respectful manner.
He refers to them as ‘tall tippy monstrosities with mediocre brakes that block other driver's view of the road and inflict massive damage during collisions.’
No warships were present, but considerable damage was inflicted on cargo vessels, with which the harbor was jammed.
The nasty plotters who were found guilty yesterday have inflicted misery on untold millions. The Sun
He pleaded guilty to criminal damage and inflicting grievous bodily harm. The Sun
I would only be inflicting my germs all over you and giving you a bad chest.
After finally being seen by a passer-by at about 5am yesterday and airlifted to safety he was still nursing painful injuries inflicted all over his legs and buttocks by the thorns.
Please help me before our dogs inflict serious injury on each other!
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself
And therein lies a clue that perhaps this superman can in fact be tripped up by an opponent who fights through the pain to inflict agonies of his own.
On any view you inflicted the fatal wounds with a knife and caused the victim's death.
It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
Church in the name of the sovereign and under his authority, possess any coactive strength, executive power, or terrestrial authority, it is evident that these ministers can inflict only spiritual punishments. A Philosophical Dictionary
They can inflict a serious, and sometimes fatal, injury and should be treated with respect.
In the course of this lavation, it was discovered the extraordinary flow of blood and brains had been produced by the infliction of a deep wound on the back of the head, by the sharp and ponderous tomahawk of an Indian. Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1
While Athenian forces made raids and even established small coastal bases in Spartan territory, these forays were unable to inflict sufficient damage to aid the Athenian fight.
Ex his igitur tribus statibus Christus corporeae naturae singulas quodam modo indidit causas; nam quod mortale corpus adsumpsit ut mortem a genere humano fugaret, in eo statu ponendum est quod post Adae praeuaricationem poenaliter inflictum est. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Although a knife is the most commonly used weapon to inflict stab wounds, other devices also can be used.
There are too many critics who revel in slinging mud and inflicting verbal pain.
This is much too good a book to veer into "revenge fic", a sub-species of fan fiction in which writers inflict suffering on characters that they dislike.
The circumstances, the spokesman said, were that they had shown their ability to inflict harm and murder people.
For some reason the attackers in the south appear to be very poor shots, and seem mostly to miss the target, failing to inflict any real damage.
Most Indian casualties are I inflicted by so-called Kashmiri freedom fighters. CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007
For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Party activists and trade unionists were going to inflict a string of defeats on the leadership on key policy areas.
Uninterested in any kind of balanced view, Senator Obama sounds exactly like a classic European nationalist, decrying the historic ills inflicted upon his own volk, blaming all of their problems on the crimes of others, denying that anyone has ever done them a good turn, and implicitly justifying a mood of revanchism. Stromata Blog:
Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’
But perceived greed, incompetence and a steadfast refusal to accept blame have dealt them yet another self-inflicted wound. Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately, it came in at an oblique angle and skipped off his mail, ripping a huge tear in his poncho without inflicting any other damage.
The army inflicted a heavy defeat on rebel forces.
The ferocious weather inflicted severe damage to body panels and windscreens.
However, our recompence is in Christ's hands, who will reward us with eternal glory for the shame we thus patiently endure; and though it be not directly inflicted, it if be quietly borne for conscience 'sake, and in conformity to Christ's example, it shall be put upon the score of suffering for Christ. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
His strike hit home, knocking a few of the armoured scales loose and inflicting a minor wound.
If everyone could do that, we wouldn't need any of the incinerators or waste plants Compact Power seems so eager to inflict on inappropriate rural sites.
I say that these - which are the laws of mesmerism in its general features - it would be supererogation to demonstrate; nor shall I inflict upon my readers so needless a demonstration to-day.
It seems that wife, Maureen was keen to try something a little different to avoid the traditional, emotional disappointment inflicted upon her spirit by the annual Xmas tree 'droop' in the Roberts household. No drooping at the Roberts' this Xmas
The negative obligation not to inflict inhuman or degrading treatment was unqualified. Times, Sunday Times
KEVIN COOK, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, ALABAMA STATE TROOPERS: Well, the state and local law enforcement agencies of south Alabama responded to a series of at least four shooting incidents involving what is believed to be a single gunman, who left at least nine victims dead, before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot. CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2009
Never was the _honour_, the _principles_, the policy of a nation so grossly abused as in the desertion of those men, who are now exposed to _every punishment_ that _desertion_ and _poverty_ can inflict, _because they were not rebels_. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
You didn't feel you'd accomplished anything unless you had inflicted mortal pain on your opponent. The Sun
This spine has a serrated edge and can inflict painful wounds.
In addition to inflicting grave injustices on property owners, takings that transfer property to powerful private interests are not needed to rescue distressed urban areas.
However, he said he would not return a verdict of suicide and instead returned a verdict of self-inflicted death.
The rodent's sharp teeth can inflict a nasty bite.
We've tried everything to help him deal with his issues, to get him to talk and to make him realize that the way he inflicts his rage on those around him is totally unacceptable.
I am incandescent with rage that such appalling suffering is being inflicted here in Britain. The Sun
Some literalist is probably at this moment self-inflicting a herniated disc with head-shaking and complaining that anabolic steroids weren't synthesized until around the 1930s. Archive 2007-11-01
But perceived greed, incompetence and a steadfast refusal to accept blame have dealt them yet another self-inflicted wound. Times, Sunday Times
In the course of the reading, Judge Rodion Kireyev said Tymoshenko inflicted damages of some 1.5 billion hryvna $190 million on the national gas company by signing an import contract with Russia in 2009. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Every lady should read _A Simpleton_, and learn something of the monstrous wrong she inflicts upon herself by trying to compass an artificially-produced "middle sae jimp. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science
We learn a lot about Sophie in that passage, about her rejection of her mother and about her tendency towards self-punishment and inflicting pain on herself.
But if you use that as an excuse to inflict pain on them, then you are sick and sadistic and motivated solely by bigotry.
Only time will tell how long this latest "truce" subsists but it is unquestionable that Iran now has a strong foothold both in Gaza and Yehuda and the Shomron and heaven forefends it may not even need its nuclear capability to inflict heavy loss on Israel. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- taking sexual pleasure in inflicting or enduring pain. algolagnic, algometer Xml's Blinklist.com
Over the next 24 years, the occupiers inflicted massacres, hunger, forced sterilization, and attempts at cultural annihilation on East Timor.
Letters: Unspeakable horrors were inflicted upon Poland during the war, but to tacitly assert that minorities in the Second Republic were not subject to discrimination and the kind of violence manifest in Nazi Germany in 1938 is a sickening falsehood Letters: Alone under a dictatorship
The infliction occasion of the sustain is influenced by the Soil character on ground.
Their problems were largely self-inflicted. Times, Sunday Times
This time Broad inflicted the damage. Times, Sunday Times
Thousands of pounds of damage has been inflicted on her property - her car has been smashed up more than a dozen times.
He said all dog owners must ensure that their pets are under full control at all times, and are not allowed roam freely in the countryside where they can inflict horrific damage on a sheep flock.
I cannot go into the atrocities the torturers inflicted upon her.
Deirdre murmured, a tear tracing a path down her cheek, from sympathy, or from the bruises Alana was probably inflicting, he had no idea.
There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain.
Italy was at last respiring from "the deadly wounds" inflicted upon her for so many years.
However, what held her full attention now was the fact she was being surrounded by a group of men carrying various tools that could inflict harm on a person.
This time Broad inflicted the damage. Times, Sunday Times
Having inflicted a 15th place Kentucky Derby finisher on Out of Left Field readers, this chastened tout will perform the public service of not tipping any horse in the Preakness.
He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing.
Both brothers allege that serious damage was inflicted on their reputations and businesses. Times, Sunday Times
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere to policies strictly consistent with this view.
With sense 2 cf. French morion punishment inflicted on soldiers (1605), so called in allusion to the hat suspended at the end of the shaft of the halberd which held the soldier while the punishment was inflicted. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
OK, I exaggerate, but my mate down there was under the weather, so it didn't seem terribly good form to inflict my jetlagged, mindfucked blethering on him. Archive 2010-06-01
His wound was inflicted by a sheriff's posse pursuing him for an assault upon a farmer's wife.
Those killed in military action are represented as inflicting their own deaths.
The word 'Passover' comes from the belief that God inflicted plagues upon the Egyptians to force them to free the Jews. For Christians and Jews, a Holy Week
Bush and the moneyed interests for whom he is fronting are inflicting gaping, cankerous wounds upon humanity and the Earth. Shouting at the Devil:
They began to ransack Autobot Headquarters, inflicting major damage to Teletraan I. Wheeljack managed to subdue the Dinobots with his shoulder-mounted magnetic inducer. Matthew Yglesias » The Ontology of Transformers
If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
For example, if a PC is hiding in a 10×10 wooden shack that is hit by a culverin inflicting 35 points of damage on the structure, he may take 8 points of fragment damage if he fails his save. Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related
You are going to inflict such a defeat on the enemy that he will never recover.
The wounds inflicted on minority women can hardly heal especially when they were subjected to such unspeakable crimes.
Do you have to inflict that music on us?
Even those who believed that poverty was largely self-inflicted did not always adhere to policies strictly consistent with this view.
Detectives warned that the men could inflict serious injury.
For the same disastrous policies are being inflicted on people here in Britain.
He ordered to come at His call the infliction of punishment by "fire" on Israel, that is, drought (compare Am 4: 6-11), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A self-inflicted injury at that. Times, Sunday Times
The punishments inflicted on the children were too severe.
But a lesser plea of inflicting grievous bodily harm was accepted by the CPS. The Sun
All the bodily defects and deformities that orthopedy treats, give but a feeble idea of the humps, the tortuosities, the dislocations we have inflicted upon ourselves in order to depart from simple common sense; and at our own expense we learn that one does not deform himself with impunity. The Simple Life
Silvano Arieti and others argued that schizophrenia could be understood as an injury to the inner self inflicted by psychologically invasive, "schizophrenogenic" parents. Psychology Wiki - Recent changes [en]
Few victims survived the extreme brutality and the severest punishments inflicted.
Fortunately no major damage had been inflicted on the seaplane and the hull was still watertight.
I simply mean that they are now living the suffering they've inflicted on others as penance for their sins.
He inflicted pain on us as few cricketers have and yet we have caused him untold suffering. Times, Sunday Times
What we are in danger of, he says matter-of-factly, is a self-inflicted wound, a self-inflicted extinction.
But I'm not into hurting him - inflicting pain is just not right for me.
He is being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He inflicted the aural atrocity that is ‘The Frog's Chorus’ on zillions of unprotected eardrums.
Here you have the prime virtue of being a born-again politician: automatic absolution from responsibility for inflicting even more deprivation on the weakest in society.
Yet the closure of the banks will have inflicted great damage on the economy. Times, Sunday Times
I have known patients require stitches and even surgery for injuries inflicted.
Unlike the rest of the world, our news coverage of the war remains sanitised, without a glimpse of the blood and gore inflicted upon our soldiers or the women and children.
However, we are concerned about the psychological damage you have inflicted on your victims.
Crouched in the middle of the road a Moro, gone amuck, darted fanatic glances in search of the Christians he had vowed to die killing, his eyes bloodshot with the self-inflicted torture of the juramentado rite. Terry A Tale of the Hill People
Although he is increasingly reviled these days for his purported stylistic preciosity, John Updike remains a writer I am able to read with pleasure because he successfully avoids inflicting such damage. Point of View in Fiction
Proclaiming a National Fast Day in 1863, he suggested, in full prophetic voice, that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. . . The Chosen Peoples
It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as sere (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). Believe Me, It's Torture
They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team.
In fact, all we can do is confess our 'Kantian' ignorance at the limits of science as metaphysics and not be so determined to do all the foolish things ignorant people might wish to do, such as crossbreed man and chimpanzee, or produce chimeras of the type Dawkins so grinningly finds he would inflict on those less 'rational' than he. Darwiniana
A single large rocket inflicts damage equivalent to that of a large mortar shell.
How many parents cannot muster the determination to discipline their children because they cannot bear inflicting the suffering it will require?
The injuries were of a type consistent with being inflicted by a hatchet or tomahawk.
Both systems were very intense; both inflicted heavy damage on significant population centres.
In fact he doubted very much if this fast-flowing freshwater stream harboured denizens capable of inflicting such damage. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
The hurricane inflicted severe damage on the island.
Nimble German infantry mortar squads inflicted 70% of Allied casualties during the Battle of Normandy.

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