Sentence examples for and inflicted on a from inspiring English sources

Those who have been spared this harrowing experience accept the general principle that unbearable suffering, prolonged by medical care, and inflicted on a dying patient who wishes to die, is unequivocally a bad thing.

The reason Lewis concludes his book in 1215 is that that was the year in which Pope Innocent III launched the Albigensian Crusade, an especially vicious example of the religious fanaticism that, in Lewis's view, Europe developed in reaction to the Muslims, and inflicted on a bleeding world for many centuries thereafter.

"The wear and tear inflicted on a horse in a championship year is incredible and to give Sanctos his best chance to compete in Rio it was probably best he didn't go to the Europeans".

Physical violence erupts at random on the streets and is inflicted on a more intimate, everyday scale at home.

The school tauntings I received have far outlived the bumps and bruises inflicted on a girl who was poor, who was quiet, who had trouble speaking with people.

And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry".

"And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry". From 1910 to 1970 mixed-race children - mostly of Aboriginal mothers and European fathers - were taken to orphanages, church missions or foster homes to be raised separately from their families and their culture.

Nativist attacks, vigilantism, race riots, and censorship were inflicted on a terrorized citizenry, native-born and immigrant alike.

If inflicted on someone else, and certainly if inflicted on a child, such efforts become positively immoral and must never be allowed.

This is dumb centrism and failed austerity, inflicted on a now mutinous public that is palpably sick of both.

The story involves a threat to the island where they live — it's called Arcadia — and a punishment inflicted on a character called "America".