Sentence examples for both inflict from inspiring English sources

Because many contracts are "sticky" (that is, not easily revised) in monetary terms, inflation and deflation would both inflict damage on the economy.

Bastet, often associated closely with the ferocious lioness goddess Sakhmet, also assumed more violent roles, as she was able to both inflict and cure disease.

Toughness, as measured by a player's capacity to both inflict and endure pain, was a precious commodity I was eager to reap.

Both inflict and take severe punishment and Summers never does the whole 'wow, it's girls kicking ass... how progressive!' bit that so many others stoop to.

And in that process, the shows both inflict danger upon their contestants, and promote hatred toward the types of bodies featured onscreen.

I think about this in the context of the Orlando murders and see a gruesome similarity between U.S. militarism and the violent forays of armed loners -- and the "concentrated horror" both inflict.

Beach Thomas was opposed to the use of the toothed steel trap for catching rabbits, supporting the RSPCA in its efforts to outlaw the device and noting that it both inflicted unnecessary pain and was indiscriminate in nature, sometimes trapping other animals such as domesticated cattle and pet dogs.

His hands are basically weapons, his body trained both to inflict pain and to avoid it.

- Lionel Tiger, author of "The Decline of Males" "Based on my work with violent men, I'd say it's a form of initiating men into the standard expected male gender role in patriarchies, namely to become violence objects -- people who are expected both to inflict violence and to become subjects of violence inflicted on them.

The instigator of the Second World War, the frustrated watercolorist Adolf Hitler, had aimed both to inflict this on his enemies and to preserve his own Thousand-Year Reich from the possibility of such ruination by ordering all new public buildings to be constructed solely in brick and stone.

Perhaps a person who rejects love and nature (for the two are often connected in Turgenev's work) is not unlike a country living under tyranny – both states inflict a grief similar to the one Bersyenev feels once he is back in the privacy of his room, when he senses "something dark and secret" entering his heart and is overcome with a sadness that has nothing noble in it.