infliction

How To Use infliction In A Sentence

• Intentional infliction of emotional distress, the whole works. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
• He follows up this general castigation of the owners of the above properties with the infliction of a special cowhiding upon the Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
• 'Oh, atrocious!' it shrieks, in agony, and in anger too, as if the very keenness of the infliction were a proof of its injustice. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• That decision recognised a liability for intentional infliction of emotional distress - by its nature an indirect consequence of the defendant's act - which can for that reason be regarded as descended from the action on the case.
• This provides an intellectual and quasi-moral cover for aggressive class warfare and infliction of pain on the weak.
• It tries to use crude epidemiological models like those used to study disease and applies them to the conscious infliction of violence by human beings.
• Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself.
• _Animadvertere_ is the proper expression for the infliction of bodily punishment by a lictor, who _has to pay attention to his orders_; but it is also used of the person who gives the order, and causes it to be carried into effect, just as _interficere_ is said both of the executioner and the person who orders a man to be put to death. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
• Jones undertakes to examine defamation and related ‘expressive transgressions’ such as invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
• In theory, an effort is made in "conventional" wars to be discriminating in the infliction of war deaths. Death, Legal and Illegal