Sentence examples for inflict an from inspiring English sources

Just as one individual can inflict an externality on another, so one side of a person's nature can inflict an "internality" on another.

The strictures against future Arctic drilling are unlikely to inflict an immediate political toll on Obama.

Substantial vacancies inflict an additional decline in values of as much as 30percentt, he said.

In the meantime, they can inflict an awful lot of damage to the country at very little cost to themselves.

But the Bee Gees spirit lives on every time a dad gets up to inflict an embarrassing dance on his children.

Determined men who have transposed their own lives to a martyr's afterlife can still inflict an amount of destruction that defies belief.

An assassin bug that could inflict a nasty, painful bite.

Pogonomyrmex, another seed harvester, can inflict a painful sting.

Liverpool accepted the invitation to inflict a humiliation.

But to inflict a skirt on an adventurous little girl is an exercise in sheer unkindness.

Then the FIA could call both to a fresh World Council meeting, to inflict a new penalty.