Sentence examples for aim of inflicting from inspiring English sources

These efforts were unsuccessful in provoking a large ground battle, so Saddam Hussein decided to launch a limited offensive into Saudi Arabia with the aim of inflicting heavy losses on the Coalition armies.

Still more are combinations for the purpose of inflicting it.

Freud believed that sadism and masochism are component parts of the same sexual instinct the enjoyment of receiving pain is the inverse of our primary instinctual aim to inflict it.

Underlying this was a fear of inflicting irreparable damage on the relationship.

They aim to inflict maximum death and terror in an initial unprovoked attack.

These plagues aim to inflict psychological rather than physical harm.

It seems part of a broader war taking place not just in one country, but worldwide, and it aims to inflict — often successfully — fear of similar attacks in the future.

With the summer campaign of 1965, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces aimed to inflict significant losses on the South Vietnamese military.

Instead, suicide bombings have aimed to inflict maximum damage on Iraqi institutions like the police and military that are central to the American effort to turn over the reins of government by June 30.

The use of falanga (beatings on the soles of the feet) is a torture method which deliberately aims at inflicting intense pain in the feet and lower legs [ 1, 2].

Others have been sophisticated, linked to overseas groups aimed at inflicting mass casualties.