The phrase "are being inflicted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions or harm that is currently being imposed on someone or something.
Example: "The consequences of the decision are being inflicted on the entire community."
Alternatives: "are being imposed" or "are being applied".
"There's no plan to deal with the $25bn of cuts that are being inflicted by the federal government on our schools and hospitals," he said.
But remember that some of those blows are being inflicted not just in the public interest but also to protect a very vested private interest too.
My concern is that under the pressure of the cuts and reforms that are being inflicted on the criminal justice system, the same corners are going to be cut whatever Tory ministers say in their set-piece speeches.
On Sunday, when foreign ministers from six Persian Gulf states gathered in Saudi Arabia for an emergency session in response to the attacks, the statement they issued combined condemnation and admonition, arguing that any antiterror campaign should not ignore acts of terror that many Arabs say are being inflicted by Israel on innocent Palestinians.
In his preface to "A World Apart," Bertrand Russell wrote about those letter-writing apologists: "Those who write such letters and those fellow travelers who allow themselves to believe them share responsibility for the almost unbelievable horrors which are being inflicted upon millions of wretched men and women, slowly done to death by hard labor and starvation in the Arctic cold".
Hickman also said that the local Department of Fish and Game and all other relevant agencies were notified but have not been able to figure out how the injuries are being inflicted and by whom.
What she's uncovered is evidence to suggest that concentration camps, beheadings, rape and starvation – basically every abhorrent thing you can think of inflicting on another human being – is being inflicted on the Rohingya community by their Burmese oppressors.
But the real damage is being inflicted on us.
How will the people appreciate what a truly awful punishment is being inflicted?
Once again, doctors played a critical role, providing professional opinions that no severe pain or suffering was being inflicted.
"We don't see any traumatic wounds in these remains which would suggest violence was being inflicted on living people.
