Sentence examples for designed to inflict a from inspiring English sources

A CLOUD of anthrax germs, designed to inflict a horrible death within five days on anyone who breathes it, is unleashed in the main shopping mall of a small American town.

Targeting the Meena bazaar, which is mostly frequented by women, was quite clearly designed to inflict a maximum number of civilian casualties.

It's deliberate crudity, bullying language designed to inflict discomfort in a woman.

Here we investigate moralistic punishment, a behavior designed to inflict costs on another individual in response to a perceived moral violation.

But if Limbaugh gets his way, the right to own a gun, even to own an assault weapon designed to inflict maximum carnage will always supersede the right of a nine-year-old child to make it to her tenth birthday or of a 40-year-old mother of two not to be shot through the head.

If there is a sport designed to inflict maximum bafflement on the average Olympics crowd, it is taekwondo, an ancient Korean martial art whose name means, loosely, "the way of the foot and fist".

The weapons are designed to inflict heavy damage on targets over a 30-acre area.

The company's private equity owner, BC Partners, said Vodafone had behaved in a way "designed to inflict the maximum damage" on Phones 4u while it described EE's decision to withdraw its business from Phones 4u last week as surprising.

His point in arranging my visit was to demonstrate the terrifying consequence of a "peaceful" nuclear explosion, let alone one resulting from a weapon designed to inflict mass destruction.

The group alleged that the multi-department police force that responded to the protests — which is known in St . Louisas the Unified Command — "knowingly used tear gas and other chemical agents against demonstrators including Plaintiffs in a manner designed to inflict pain and anguish rather than accomplishing any legitimate law enforcement objective," according to the claim.

Belmarsh's claustrophobic cells are at the heart of what she describes as a repressive system designed to inflict "mental distress" on those in indefinite detention.