Inflicted in example sentence

In fact, as Wu was relaying his message to India, Chinese President Xi Jinping was asserting, at the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China, that the move had ended the “humiliation and sorrow” inflicted by Britain when it took over the city in 1842.

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See the brick walls as all the problems that we've inflicted on this planet.

And before long, our bodies were covered head to toe with these nasty wounds inflicted by the terrified penguins.

We have come so far down the road of prohibition, punishment and prejudice that we have become indifferent to the suffering that we have inflicted on the most vulnerable people in our society.

In Dubai, I chronicled injustices and inequalities inflicted regularly on the migrant labor force.

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