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Inflicting in sentence

75 examples of Inflicting in a sentence

In earlier times, when suffering and early death were common in one's own life, one has fewer compunctions about inflicting them on others.
Whether it’s being chained to a burning wheel, turned into a spider, or having an eagle eat one’s liver, Greek mythology is filled with stories of the gods inflicting gruesome horrors on mortals who angered them.
We knew so little in those days, as little as now, I suppose about healing those hurts: even the women, in their best dresses, with beads and sequins sewn on the bodices, even in lipstick and mascara, their hair aflow, could only stand wringing their hands, begging for peace, while father and son, like thugs, like thieves, like Romans, simmered and hissed and hated, inflicting sorrows that endured, the worst anyway, through the kiss and embrace, bleeding from brother to brother, into the generations.
As expected, what passes for a plot in this dire example of wasted celluloid, finishes with no resolution whatsoever, thereby leaving the producers with the option of inflicting 'The Grudge 3' upon the public when the time comes that they feel yet another pang of true hatred for civilisation.
The movie is over before you know it though so it has to get credit for not inflicting you with a very painful to watch movie.
Forced against her will, with no memory of inflicting such harm, Sherri's host body murders selected victims.
Clay implies that men simply cannot help themselves from inflicting terrible acts of violence.
Pat Boone has absolutely no acting talent whatsoever, and his ineptness is exceeded only by that of his co-star Pamela Austin, a former model (yet one more reason to outlaw the insidious practice of inflicting talentless models on an unsuspecting moveiegoing public, a foul habit that unfortunately persists to this day).
He is seemingly cordial to talk to but behind the smiling facade lies a loathsome, callous, spiteful fellow - one who is ruthless without showing any sign of remorse - in fact, he seems to derive great pleasure and pride from inflicting anguish on others, especially women.
In need of a place to hide out after inflicting a fatal beating and unnecessarily tormenting a convenience store clerk, they make themselves at home as the depressed girl, Lisa holds her own by offing the guys one by one with many axes that always seem to be in reach.
World Heavyweight Championship: Kurt Angle vs Mark Henry. Henry has been annoying people since he returned to WWE last autumn, inflicting a genuine injury on then champion Batista (which led him to relinquishing his belt).
Russia does the same, inflicting death on Ukraine, Georgia, and other neighbors.
These wars are inflicting heavy punishment on precisely those peoples who have held fully free and fair elections in the region, while eroding the legitimacy of Israel’s democracy.
An EU relationship similar to Norway’s is the only model that could attract public and political support in Britain, without threatening EU principles or inflicting serious economic costs on either side.
Pirate fishing around the world is costing fishermen their jobs and income, and is inflicting serious harm on the ocean environment.
France was pursuing its own Gaullist goal of strengthening French national prestige by inflicting damage or even humiliation upon the US.
It remains to be seen how the British repair the damage they are inflicting upon themselves through the Brexit quagmire.
“Feeling the Bern” (the mantra of Bernie Sanders’ leftist campaign) will not suffice to stop Trump from inflicting great harm to institutions that were carefully constructed more than two centuries ago to protect American democracy from demagogues like him.
Rather, the economy has become so vulnerable to declines in asset prices that the Fed is obliged to intervene to prevent them from inflicting broad damage.
And Japan seems to be intent on inflicting on itself a second, growth-retarding consumption-tax increase.
When capital flows stop, this entire process unwinds, inflicting much pain.
The overwhelming – and sensible – expectation is that the two parties will compromise and raise the debt ceiling before inflicting serious economic and financial dislocations.
Digital Disruption’s Silver LiningSEATTLE – Technology is often oversold as either a panacea for the world’s problems or an unshakeable curse inflicting disruption and displacement on the most vulnerable.
India Stops Turning the Other CheekNEW DELHI – For two and a half decades, Pakistan has pursued a policy of inflicting on India “death by a thousand cuts” – bleeding the country through repeated terrorist attacks, rather than attempting an open military confrontation which it cannot win against India’s superior conventional forces.
Anti-Zionism takes a nasty turn to anti-Semitism when it conflates Jews with Israelis – for example, when the British Liberal Democratic politician David Ward criticized “the Jews” for inflicting horrors on the Palestinians.
Inflicting maximum damage from the air was and remains Israel’s strategy toward Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Economic shocks are destabilizing countries and regions, and inflicting great social and financial hardships on families and their communities.
But countries and their public services cannot default without inflicting severe pain on entire populations.
This remedy may seem all the more urgent as Russian forces keep inflicting wanton destruction on Chechnya.
The important points for them are that they gained revenge by inflicting damage, showed that they were real men, did not buckle under, and survived.
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