Sentence examples for if inflicted from inspiring English sources

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For many Americans, the wounds from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks remain raw, as if inflicted but a day or two ago.

And new members, anxious to prove their pluck and purpose, willingly endure degradation and pain, which if inflicted on them as individuals would provoke them to raging self-defense.

While the latter is inherently bad to inflict, the former is inherently good to inflict (if inflicted by a proper punitive desert agent).

Deep cuts resulted in most cases that, the researchers said, could prove to be "lethal" if inflicted on a living subject.

By validating murder as an act of violence that is legal if inflicted by a superior power, again, we are failing to uphold the equal value of all human life.

If inflicted on someone else, and certainly if inflicted on a child, such efforts become positively immoral and must never be allowed.

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And so, if inflicting three years of fear and suffering was wrong, as everyone would agree, then inflicting three seconds of it was no less wrong.

When Orfeo travels to the underworld to reclaim Euridice, his pleading is interrupted by the witnesses, here furies and ghosts, who lean over the railings, shake their fists and shout, "No," as if inflicting multiple stab wounds on Orfeo's anguished music.

But you wouldn't be too surprised if Madrid inflicted so much pain that the last remnants of a functioning team at the Volkswagen-Arena will be blown away altogether.

Not that the state would be able to collect all of the money even if it inflicted the maximum fine.

It would be counterproductive and sad if you inflicted harsh judgment on yourself as you take steps to adopt an attitude of "New Opportunities".

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