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Yet we seem determined to inflict further suffering on the patient.
When emotions run free, former affections can quickly turn into spite and a desire to inflict deep wounds.
It is thus in both sides’ interest not to inflict deep wounds, instigate confrontations, or embarrass and threaten the other side.
Fed officials have repeatedly expressed concern that the prolonged weak recovery will inflict future pain in the form of slower long-run growth.
Such arbitrary cuts are likely to inflict more damage on the economy than sensibly targeted cuts of the same magnitude.
The scorched-earth defeat that Conservative Euroskeptics expect to inflict on Britain’s internationalist and progressive forces was symbolized by the Daily Mail headline on May’s election announcement: “Crush the Saboteurs.”
Even this enormous increase in the projected deficits and debt underestimates the fiscal damage that the Obama administration’s budget, if enacted, would inflict.
Today, while global attention focuses on Europe’s woes, the economic crisis continues to inflict devastating social consequences worldwide.
Muzzled in the Name of FreedomNEW YORK – Acts of terror can inflict terrible damage.
As a result, the goal of a facial slap is not to inflict physical pain, but to induce surprise and humiliation.
In the medium term, once growth revives, debt can be paid down and the financial sector curbed so that it does not inflict another crisis on the world.
But, while banks undoubtedly have the capacity to inflict serious damage on economies and livelihoods, a well-run financial system can offer significant benefits.
Reliance on investment will not enable China to achieve stable, long-term growth and prosperity; on the contrary it may well inflict serious long-term damage on economic performance.
Instead, the euro achieved what it was meant to achieve: the crisis was contained, because it could not inflict damage on foreign-exchange markets within the euro area.
Its troops were on the road to Cairo, threatening to inflict a major defeat on Egypt.
Even setting aside the harm that smokers inflict on nonsmokers, the free-to-choose argument is unconvincing with a drug as highly addictive as tobacco, and it becomes even more dubious when we consider that most smokers take up the habit as teenagers and later want to quit.
After the Russian-imposed chaos, the International Monetary Fund is planning to inflict its own chaos on Ukraine.
The US has reacted to this international catastrophe by providing light arms to some rebel groups in order to inflict a pinprick on President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for its use of chemical weapons months before.
But the only sentence it can inflict is a forced absence from public life for a given time.
This consistent pattern of readiness to inflict civilian casualties – often when striking targets that are not of vital military significance – suggests that Bush and other pro-life American leaders have less concern for the lives of innocent human beings in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, than they have for human embryos.
With the EU and the US unlikely to inflict economic self-harm to achieve their hand-waving targets after 2030, it strains credibility to expect China to do so.
But he is a politician first and foremost, who probably understands that tariffs will inflict pain on US consumers.
Measles may have a lower mortality rate than Ebola, but its potential to inflict suffering and death – especially on young children – remains considerable.
But the fact that it would inflict losses on itself by increasing rates is likely to reduce its room for maneuver.
Farm policy, for example, cannot be extended to Eastern Europe in its present form; partly because it would be far too expensive for the Community budget, but mainly because such a sudden increase in farm price levels would inflict damaging distortions on the economies of candidate countries.
Is the IMF, the member of the UN family charged to maintain global financial stability, really so evil or misguided that it can only propose policies that inflict economic pain instead of alleviating it?
This could inflict reputational damage that may be difficult to rectify, with real financial and economic consequences.
The relative pain each will inflict on the other is difficult to ascertain.
This unprecedented crime, perpetrated by one of the most advanced and cultivated societies on Earth, was the most extreme example of the horrors humans can inflict on one another.
This is just one small part of the suffering that humans systematically inflict on animals in every country – in factory farms, laboratories, and the entertainment industry.
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