Sentence examples for inflict it is from inspiring English sources

In this day of greater recognition of the harm that medicine can inflict, it is a legitimate question to ask every doctor, "Does your patient need this drug or this intervention?" But doctors as an arm of Border Protection?

It is always comforting to imagine that those who express such cruelty – let alone inflict it – are sociopathic.

Although Hezbollah may suffer in the long run -- amid a debate over its arms and recrimination among its supporters over the suffering the war has inflicted -- it is now building more political capital.

But being mindful of the difference between providing help and inflicting it is what allows us to truly make a difference.

But I do believe that in such circumstances when we are faced with someone who was manifestly a war criminal in terms of the atrocities inflicted it is important that justice is seen to be served". A spokesman for Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, said the Church would not be commenting on Bin Laden's death.

To inflict it on children is cruel and immoral.

When a psychologist sees the tools of his trade twisted by colleagues to inflict pain, it is an experience that defies description.

It is a startling sign of the pain that the Great Recession is inflicting, and it is largely missed by the official, oft-repeated statistics on unemployment.

An injury is said to be "inflicted" if it is the result of an impact or percussion set in motion by the defendant; the injury must relate directly to the impact or percussion, but the impact or percussion may be an indirect effect of the defendant's actions.

In many cases, no amount of psychological or spiritual work will change your body's chemical response to the person who inflicted harm; it is hard-wired into your biology, an aspect of survival.

And the last thing you ever want to do is to inflict it upon a child.