Sentence examples for gratuitous suffering from inspiring English sources
I guess what I'm saying is that I worry that a more or less permanent depression could end up simply becoming accepted as the way things are, that we could suffer endless, gratuitous suffering, yet the political and policy elite would feel no need to change its ways.
Krugman concludes that "high unemployment could become accepted as the new normal," and worries that we'll come to accept "a more or less permanent depression" as the norm -- adding that "we could suffer endless, gratuitous suffering, yet the political and policy elite would feel no need to change its ways".
This methodology causes gratuitous suffering, and deliberately so.
Even if that's true, by the way, inadequate stimulus and debt relief have inflicted huge, gratuitous suffering.
For my part, I eat meat, but I would prefer that this practice not inflict gratuitous suffering.
The boy must be spared the endless, gratuitous suffering to which the Chinese were as accustomed as if their whole existence depended on it.
"What we have created is sensitive and well considered, not a gratuitous exploitation of suffering purely for the purposes of amusement," he told me.
When the court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, it said an execution could avoid being a "gratuitous infliction of suffering" if it served the purpose of incapacitation, deterrence or retribution.
In September 2011 a public inquiry led by Sir William Gage found Mr Mousa died after suffering "an appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" which represented a "very serious breach of discipline" by members of 1st Battalion the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (1QLR).
