Sentence examples similar to inflicted grief from inspiring English sources

It was an apology for "the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians".

"We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

In 2008, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologised to the indigenous population for laws and policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss".

Perhaps a person who rejects love and nature (for the two are often connected in Turgenev's work) is not unlike a country living under tyranny – both states inflict a grief similar to the one Bersyenev feels once he is back in the privacy of his room, when he senses "something dark and secret" entering his heart and is overcome with a sadness that has nothing noble in it.

Agim Ibraimi came within inches of inflicting further grief on the home side, as his shot on the turn flew close.

It is also true that she nursed the wounds he inflicted and her grief for her daughter, Allegra, for the rest of her long life.

My reading of Unfaithful Music is that the pain he suffered in his early years, all that self-inflicted grief, is now behind him, and that he has learned to forgive himself.

This scale of death, and the pervasive grief it inflicted, resulted from significant innovations in warfare.

The grief I had inflicted on my poor mom was the worst thing of all.

The grief I had inflicted on my poor wee mum was the worst thing of all.

Apart from the grief Van Gaal's team inflicted upon Spain with that 5-1 hammering in Brazil, Mata has been hugely impressed with the 62-year-old.