And often, inflicted without discrimination.
The effect of water on the damage of the concrete slab in a tunnel is compared with damage inflicted without water.
Meanwhile, the public finances are improving, while the cuts have been inflicted without any apparent destruction of Britain's social fabric – even if ill-considered spending choices are accentuating inequalities and the burden is being borne by the lowest paid.
There is a scene in Toni Morrison's novel "Song of Solomon" in which a character named Guitar explains to the protagonist Milkman that violence inflicted without repercussion is not a matter of morality, but mathematics.
"I apologise to them if I hurt them without realising it, but it was a wound that I inflicted without meaning to," said the Pope on Monday, as quoted by Reuters news agency.
Over the book's six swift years, where power is demonstrated in tenderness and love is inflicted without mercy, the family's youngest son discovers his identity as something in between the tertiary lines that rigidly define the people closest to him.
We held that statute void as a bill of attainder in United States v. Lovett, 328 U.S. 303 (1946), stating that its "effect was to inflict punishment without the safeguards of a judicial trial," and that this "cannot be done either by a State or by the United States". 328 U.S. at 316-317.
In his "Newly Discovered Maxims of la Rochefoucauld", Russell remarks that "the purpose of morality is to allow people to inflict suffering without compunction" (Fact and Fiction: 184).
Special moves are certain attacks that inflict damage without having any contact with the opponent.
"There's a certain amount of pain you can inflict on customers without losing them and the banks are all doing careful calculations about what customers are willing to pay for," said Mark Schwanhausser, a senior analyst with Javelin.
