The postmortem report into his death found the main cause was bleeding from a wound to his wrist "entirely consistent with being inflicted with a bladed weapon".
By the same token, the MMR vaccination routinely given to all babies in the UK counts as a similar infringement, as the babies in question have not given consent to being inflicted with the pain of an injection.
Many of us have felt alone and alienated after being inflicted with that sort of racism passed as political debate.
Does the laboratory, like the prison, provide a special kind of environment in which pain can be inflicted with approval?
And yet, after prolonged viewing, every crack, dent, and crumbling texture seems specific and intended, as if destruction could be inflicted with finesse.
God forbid the NHS will be inflicted with another eager politician hoping to make their name with yet another Big New NHS Idea.
In time, I suppose we vied with each other, merrily boasting who'd been inflicted with the best, or rather worse, of literals and misprints.
Recent experiments funded by the ALS Association, mice had holes drilled into their skulls, were inflicted with crippling illnesses, and were forced to run on an inclined treadmill until they collapsed from exhaustion.
It wasn't until 1980, when the government was overthrown in a military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, that Liberia was inflicted with the kind of openly despotic misrule that is a feature of life in much of Africa.
Mr. Mayers said that like Mr. Gore, Mr. Kerry "can be inflicted with senatoritis, and he has had trouble connecting with people in a state where pretension does not play well and likability often trumps policy".
Five years later, she was inflicted with - blessed with, as she would say - stigmata, which reproduced the wounds Christ received on the cross on her hands and feet and in her side.
