Sentence examples for before inflicting from inspiring English sources

They did, but not before inflicting more damage.

Before inflicting that idea on my wife, I called on three people with, presumably, more conventional suggestions for mouse combat.

Within months, Barclays had backed down, but not before inflicting huge damage on its public image.Barclays also sped ahead with its unpopular branch-closure programme.

A less intrusive way to make a city smarter might be to give those who govern it a way to try out their decisions in virtual reality before inflicting them on live humans.

Braxton Bragg, for whom Fort Bragg in North Carolina is named, was irascible, ineffective, argumentative with subordinates and superiors alike, and probably would have been replaced before inflicting half the damage that he caused had he and President Jefferson Davis not been close friends.

Before inflicting an icy pain on himself, Mr Zuckerberg challenged his colleague Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, Reed Hastings, the founder of video streaming website Netflix, and Bill Gates, the former chief executive of Microsoft and the world's richest man, to undergo the same challenge within 24 hours.All three are in good, if not cold, company.

Steven Finn, who was torn apart by McCullum in a manner never before inflicted on any England bowler, has been retained and gained his retribution by bowling out his aggressor.

EC Comics were the funny books that the Mad Men read as teenagers before they inflicted their will on Madison Avenue.

Everyone out there is starring in his own movie, and permission is required before you inflict your exploits on anyone else.

"Actually, even before Sean inflicted these injuries, the mental health nurses at the jail phoned me to say they were very worried about him.

Late last month, John J. Sweeney, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., wrote Stanley Works directors to ask them to stop trying to acquire a Bermuda mail drop "before you inflict serious harm on Stanley Works, its shareholders and employees".