The phrase "inflict hardship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of causing suffering, difficulty, or distress to someone or something.
Example: "The sudden economic downturn will inflict hardship on many families struggling to make ends meet."
Alternatives: "cause suffering" or "impose difficulties."
This institutionalised gambling is promoted as "risk management", but has created new risks that inflict hardship on millions of people.
However, if you are arguing that we should continue to inflict hardship on the people of a regime that we claim cares not a whit for them, then I would disagree with you.According to Unicef, nine years of economic warfare against Iraq has seen a doubling of child- and infant-mortality rates.
Across cultures, HIV stigma has repeatedly been shown not only to inflict hardship and suffering on people with HIV [ 21], but also to interfere with decisions to seek HIV counseling and testing [ 22, 23], as well as PMTCT [ 24– 28] and to limit HIV-positive individuals' willingness to disclose their infection to others [ 29– 32], which can lead to sexual risk.
The recessions that spread through nearly every country in recent years have inflicted hardship here, too, and there are communities enduring real pain.
First, because Mali is an important regional player whose people want no truck with the extremist thugs who have inflicted hardship and tragedy on the nation's huge Saharan region.
As the cuts take effect, they will inflict widespread hardship.
"Hundreds of counties haven't been able to meet the current standard set a decade ago, and moving the goal posts again will inflict economic hardship on these areas without speeding air quality improvement".
But the report is quite likely to reinforce administration frustration over the mounting pressure among nations and aid organizations to lift the sanctions on the ground that they inflict undue hardship on the Iraqi people.
Even as the sole applicant for the vacancy, there remains the second risk that the job will be offered only on terms that are unacceptable; in the event of failure to agree, going without the job will inflict more hardship on the worker than not filling the vacancy will on the firm.
Looking at the NTFPs contribution to rural livelihoods, it would not be appropriate to restrict further access to forestlands in order to conserve woodland resources and biodiversity, this action would not only inflict untold hardship on forest-dependent communities but may also affect the attainment of sustainable development goals in Nigeria.
For we have here a practice which inflicts, indeed seeks to inflict, significant hardship or burdens: how else could we hope to justify it than by showing that it brings consequential benefits sufficiently large to outweigh, and thus to justify, those burdens?
