The phrase "as an infliction" is not correct in standard English usage.
It seems to be a misinterpretation of "as an affliction," which refers to a condition that causes pain or suffering.
Example: "He viewed his chronic illness as an affliction that he had to endure daily."
Alternatives: "as a burden" or "as a hardship."
Understand that hearing loss is not only an infliction of old age but can just as easily occur to anyone and at any age.
To further bone regeneration, some of the traditional reparative techniques in orthopedics have thus directly prescribed an infliction of injury or infection, as in the case when short bones are fractured by the physicians to induce their elongation or when swabs contaminated with staphylococci are applied to an open bone following a surgery performed on it so as to speed up its recovery.
Many marketers suffer from an infliction of overtly "salesy" advertising, which can come across as sleazy and distrustful.
"We are dealing undoubtedly with an infliction of damage to the country's security," Alexander Khinshtein, a prominent lawmaker, said last week.
Had she been in pain, she wouldn't have told me because she would have thought that an infliction".
There are few animals that can bear so severe an infliction, by which their surface is torn with lacerated wounds".
Looking back on his life, Busner, who never did stop believing that "mental illnesses were creations quite as much as inflictions," concludes that the post-encephalitic condition is indeed an existential phenomenology, that its symptoms express the pathologies of a disturbed world.
Self-harm was defined as infliction of a harmful act upon oneself in any form, self-poisoning or self-injury, with a non-fatal outcome [ 26].
Perhaps the most important legislative proposal would be to codify Obama's executive order requiring the CIA to abide by restrictions on interrogations spelled out in the Army Field Manual, including a ban on such "enhanced interrogation techniques" as the infliction of pain, stress positions and sleep deprivation.
