Then there are the real battles between ministers that do inflict serious wounds and leave deep bad feeling.
Yes, we do inflict harm on ourselves and others, but this is not inevitable.
The mosquitoes have begun to retreat, the bites they do inflict cooled by the air instead of inflamed by the heat.
You have the feeling, sometimes, when you read the papers, that it's an epidemic". And it's true a note of warning rings through his work, about the violence men know they can - do - inflict.
First, some injuries do inflict significant hedonic losses, because people cannot help focusing on them; chronic pain, anxiety, and depression are the most obvious examples.
The narrative designed for internal consumption was fiction moulded around a kernel of fact: the pharaoh was indeed cut off from his army, he did face a chariot onslaught while outnumbered, and he did inflict casualties.
And because these ancient guns are notoriously balky and inaccurate, there is a very good chance that you'll miss your target altogether or, worse, that you'll simply wound the creature and in so doing, inflict greater suffering than is necessary.
Why bother with messy strikes - with all that inconvenient loss of pay, and cold mornings stood on picket lines - when all you have to do is to refuse to mark essays and by so doing inflict maximum pain for minimum loss?
Fortunately, he did not succeed, but he did inflict physical and emotional scars on the woman whom he had selected as his victim.
But he did inflict pain on farmers (who now require billions in taxpayer subsidies) and increase costs for American consumers, including U.S.-based businesses that rely on foreign suppliers.
