Sentence examples for inflict for from inspiring English sources
The king of Qin appears as a misunderstood leader who dispatches his black-armored cavalry to slaughter his neighbors but suffers quiet agony at the pain he must inflict for the common good.
The king of Qin appears as a misunderstood leader who dispatches his black-armoured cavalry to slaughter his neighbours but suffers quiet agony at the pain he must inflict for the common good.
Marxist dogma rendered even more truculent by the Leninist interpretation was, Kennan wrote, "justification for their instinctive fear of the outside world, for the dictatorship without which they did not know how to rule, for cruelties they did not dare not to inflict, for sacrifice they felt bound to demand.
But more than a year later, it is not clear that the benefits mining companies could bring to Haiti would outweigh the costs they inflict – for instance, throwing poor people off their land, polluting our soil, air and water, and generating further inequalities of wealth and power.
Stalin thus used Marxism-Leninism as a "justification for the Soviet Union's instinctive fear of the outside world, for the dictatorship without which they did not know how to rule, for cruelties they did not dare not to inflict, for sacrifice they felt bound to demand ... Today they cannot dispense with it.
But is it ethical to watch those injuries being inflicted — for pure enjoyment's sake?
Penalties of up to seven years' imprisonment may be inflicted for desecrating these places.
Bukowski describes terrible beatings, sadistically inflicted for minor transgressions like missing a blade of grass when he mowed the lawn.
But the storm's arrival — and the damage it inflicted for Mr. Christie's constituents — have changed that dynamic.
We will endure the pain he inflicts for our own good, and feel bad about it in the bargain.
From the time of Henry VII (reigned 1485 1509), branding was inflicted for all offenses which received benefit of clergy, but it was abolished for such in 1822.
