Sentence examples for first inflicted from inspiring English sources

Deportation was at first inflicted upon political criminals, but, in time, it became a means of removing those whose wealth and popularity rendered them objects of suspicion.

János Hunyadi, serving W adys?aw III, king of Poland and Hungary, at first inflicted some sharp setbacks on the Ottomans, before a truce was agreed.

Those who exhaust themselves in constructing meticulous refutations of Dworkin's ideas are wasting their time; why try to reason with someone who today is every bit as furious with the junior high school teacher who gave her a B on an essay because "some commas were wrong" as she was when the insult was first inflicted?

After having seemingly exhausted the nefarious uses of insects as unwitting agents in human conflict, the United States managed to find a new way — 100,000 or so years after humans first inflicted pain on one another with bees and wasps — to exploit the natural world as a means of creating suffering.

The United Farm Workers association, which sponsored the bill, says it addresses an injustice first inflicted on farmworkers nearly eight decades ago.

The United Farm Workers association, which sponsored the bill, says it addresses an injustice first inflicted on farmworkers nearly eight decades ago.

(Such a jump could at first inflict losses on banks as the bonds they own fall in price).Yet deeper trends also appear to be at work.

According to Albertini, "the first bullet wounded the Archduke in the jugular vein, the second inflicted an abdominal wound on the Duchess".

A solo goal by Henry at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in the first leg, inflicted the home team's first defeat in 18 Champions League matches.

The club faced Real Madrid in the last 16; a solo goal by Henry at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in the first leg inflicted the home team's first defeat in 18 Champions League matches.

The prohibition against their making any ex post facto laws was introduced for greater caution, and very probably arose from the knowledge, that the Parliament of Great Britain claimed and exercised a power to pass such laws, under the denomination of bills of attainder, or bills of pains and penalties; the first inflicting capital, and the other less, punishment.