The phrase "action inflicted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that has been imposed or caused to happen, often with a negative connotation.
Example: "The action inflicted upon the community led to widespread discontent and protests."
Alternatives: "harm caused" or "damage done".
Not only was a surging career uniquely set back by the commission, but its action inflicted sizable legal costs.
That action inflicted such difficulty on schoolchildren and their families that Frank J. Macchiarola, the schools chancellor at the time, approached Mayor Edward I. Koch seeking a way out that, in turn, led to the birth of the job protections, known as employee protection provisions, that are currently at issue.
But their bishops and others across the country have not been held accountable for the extraordinary damage their actions inflicted on children, on the financial resources contributed by the faithful, and on the public reputation of faithful priests.
Words don't change the trauma one's actions inflicted on the person you harassed.
More common will be scenarios where different actions inflict more or less harm on the groups.
Such toxic thoughts and actions inflict wounds on transgender persons, and like a virus clearly spread to damage others that get caught up in their wake.
When someone's reality is such that their actions inflict pain upon others and yet, even though they are fully aware of this, they forge ahead anyway, or -- even worse -- if this person deliberately sets out with every intention of causing maximum damage, would it not stand to reason that this person has earned every bit of retaliatory hate and vengeance that comes his way?
Since the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 these items have prompted down-to-the wire fights between Congress and the administration, and, in 1995, the brief shutdown of the government, an action that inflicted grave political wounds on Congressional Republicans.
In the engagement on 4 August 1800 neither side had a single man killed or wounded; the action still inflicted a severe naval defeat on a powerful French frigate force, ending its cruise.
It contends that Gawker's actions intentionally inflicted emotional distress, invaded Mr. Ivari's privacy and constituted tortious interference "with actual and prospective business relations".
Using buckets, water-pistols, silkscreens, gravity and liquidity, Marclay is turning painting into a sort of cartoon parody of the kinds of thing po-faced action-painters inflicted on their art.
