How To Use Infliction In A Sentence
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Intentional infliction of emotional distress, the whole works.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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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
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'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
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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.
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This provides an intellectual and quasi-moral cover for aggressive class warfare and infliction of pain on the weak.
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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.
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Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself.
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_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
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Jones undertakes to examine defamation and related ‘expressive transgressions’ such as invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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In theory, an effort is made in "conventional" wars to be discriminating in the infliction of war deaths.
Death, Legal and Illegal
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A harsh and cruel sentence," said the knight, "and one at the infliction whereof I know your noble nature relucted.
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
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An astonishing number of his shorter works follow the inspiration of Crash, also filmed, this time by David Cronenberg, in morbid and almost loving accounts of “wound profiles,” gashes, fractures, and other inflictions on the flesh and bones.
The Catastrophist
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Cameron did not satisfy the state law requirements to support a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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I can't wait for our Justice Department to look into King County's waterboarding, illegal renditions, and deliberate infliction of pain approximating that of organ failure, because we all know how much our federal government has strongly opposed such practices over the last five years.
Sound Politics: Federal investigation of King County Jail
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Athlete's foot is another common infliction, and is caused when the acid balance of the skin has become too alkaline.
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In relation to Infliction and intelligence material generally Mr. McGrory said it was unreliable, unchecked and unsourced.
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The RSPCA believes that current practices in angling do involve infliction of pain and suffering on fish.
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He, too, bore several inflictions, but if they bothered him it did not show.
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This wasn't some boredom induced vandalism, this was deliberate infliction of horrendous pain on one of the most harmless and appealing creatures there is.
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Quite what the South Africans have done to warrant this infliction I'd better not speculate on.
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And, where intentional infliction is largely duplicative of a defamation claim, it must have the same standards – falsity and requisite intent – otherwise “intentional infliction” could end up like English defamation, where falsity is not a requirement – and no one wantsthat.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Short Essay on Snyder v. Phelps, Part I: The Wisdom of Hustler v. Falwell
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In particular as you will see, abuse and torture are widespread despite the prohibition by the constitution of infliction of physical harm upon those arrested or detained.
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Torture is often defined as the infliction of intense pain to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure.
Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
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soring" of Tennessee walking horses -- the intentional infliction of pain to a horse's feet, using caustic chemicals and metal chains, which produces an exaggerated, high stepping gait.
Michael Markarian: Investing in the Animals' Future, and Our Own
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Among the different inflictions purposed, none seemed to please them better, than the idea of tarring and feathering him, all which I would gladly have seen him endure, but the worst of it was, after all, the general was not in their power.
Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830
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There are a number of people who can attest to this infliction I have.
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The creation of memory, however, is no longer seen as having resulted from the public infliction of physical pain.
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We may be spared, hereafter, the infliction of numberless "felicitous" conjectures, on which the following is scarcely a parody.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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The right again!" sang out the big brute, I obeying without wincing after the first stroke; and so he went on, flaying my poor hands until he had given me six "pandies," as the boys called the infliction, on each, by which time both of my palms were as raw as a piece of ordinary beefsteak, and, I'm certain, far more tender.
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
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So the Lord ... sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it -- The infliction only of the pestilence is here noticed, without any account of its duration or its ravages, while a minute description is given of the visible appearance and menacing attitude of the destroying angel.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It specifies that torture includes only intentional infliction of ‘severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental.’
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Note "non-injurious": in other words the infliction of pain is permissible so long as there is no lasting damage.
The Guardian World News
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Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
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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
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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
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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
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Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’
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The infliction occasion of the sustain is influenced by the Soil character on ground.
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There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain.
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If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
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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
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Kantor has listed three of them in her complaint: assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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The prophecies of the Bible are not vague general denunciations of natural decline and extinction to all the nations of the world, which, if they were merely the exposition of a universal _natural_ law of national death, they would be; nor yet the application of any such natural and inevitable law to some particular nation, denouncing its destruction, without any specification of time, manner, instrument, or cause of its infliction.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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Perhaps, for instance, it's proper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of liberty but categorically improper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of life or infliction of physical pain.
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Physical abuse is the willful infliction of physical pain or injury, e.g., slapping, bruising, sexually molesting, or restraining.
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Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, and a visitation.
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It had not been suggested by the appellant that there had been intentional infliction on him of pain by a public official.
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Both sets of norms rest ultimately upon a fundamental principle of proscription concerning the infliction of militarily ' unnecessary suffering '.
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These people all seem to have the same brain infliction.
Think Progress » Virginia Delegate Fighting To Invalidate Health Reform: Reform Is ‘Criminal,’ An Attempt To Take ‘Your Soul’
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In terms of the egregious infliction of pain, it would seem that present practices in industrial farming constitute cruelty to animals and beg for regulative attention.
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The deliberate infliction of severe pain on a member of the community of equals, either wantonly or for an alleged benefit to others, is regarded as torture, and is wrong.
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For myself, I could have borne the severest infliction from the pen of the most formidable critic with more fortitude than I bore the cutting up of my first loaf of bread.
Roughing It in the Bush
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Every case of slavery, however lenient its inflictions and mitigated its atrocities, indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and oppression.
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It is generally stated that the flogger is a sexual pervert, a Sadist, and undoubtedly there are pathological cases where men find sexual gratification in inflicting or in watching the infliction of pain.
A Dominie in Doubt
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This infliction occurs when you sit on your hands all day and do nothing!
Beat 360° 9/30/08
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Its essence is the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering by an official or by someone else with the consent or acquiescence of an official, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
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Lynching may be correctly described as the infliction of summary punishment for alleged offences, without authority of law; and there is among sane minds common agreement that such lawless violence is an execrable usurpation of ordained legal functions.
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
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he's not a friend, he's an infliction
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The fact that multiple causes may have effectuated the loss does not negate any single cause; the fact that multiple acts concurred in infliction of injury does not nullify any single contributory act.
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The gist of the tort of unlawful interference is the intentional infliction of economic harm.
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The conscious infliction of pain _for the sake of the pain_ is against the better nature of man, and it is unsafe and demoralizing for any one to undertake this duty.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
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The doctors said, your Honour, that these injuries would have caused really substantial pain at the time of their infliction.