Sentence examples for inflict difficult from inspiring English sources

"If he is given a fixed term and knows that he has the time to inflict difficult measures now and get the benefits down the road, it is possible," Mr. Morgan said.

The immense humanitarian costs that these conflicts inflict are difficult to grasp.

Determining the extent of the damage that bodybuilders inflict on themselves is difficult, in part because there is little interest in financing studies on such an extreme group, and because bodybuilders are not always honest about what they take.

The memo concluded that under international law banning torture, a tactic "must inflict pain that is difficult to endure" and that "physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death," according to a copy released by the administration.

First, these traces would have been difficult to inflict on a live animal.

Because the metatarsus was tightly bound in life, it would have been difficult to inflict such a mark on the articulated foot of a living animal.

It may be simply that the more robust physique of an older child means that major trauma is more difficult to inflict.

I fear that this undertaking [in Lebanon], with its frightening cost in lives, will inflict on Judaism a degradation difficult to cure..

Radiation sickness from the bomb, the document said, would "weaken enemy units from the standpoint of health and inflict losses that would be difficult to explain, possibly producing a psychological effect".

Putting off the difficult work will only inflict further damage on the Continent's economy and perpetuate chronic unemployment.

I certainly never set out to be gritty or inflict on my reader a harrowing, difficult experience.