It's now in the unenviable (if totally self-inflicted) position of protecting its users from its customers".
The pity is that their owner, Assem Allam, should be riding on the back of it rather than this self-inflicted position whereby all he needs to complete the caricature is a monocle and a white Persian cat.
On both beaches the Ottoman defenders occupied good defensive positions and inflicted many casualties on the British infantry as they landed.
The coastal column shelled the Israeli positions and inflicted enormous damage; the Israelis were either dug in in shallow trenches made for infantry warfare with no head cover, or in Samakh's clay houses that were vulnerable to heavy weapons.
But higher up on Hill 209 the North Koreans drove B Company from its position, inflicting very heavy casualties on it.
"Beads of sweat literally break out on me in fear when I think of what this inexperienced man, completely out of his depth in this position, has already inflicted on us, and what still awaits us," Peymann wrote, citing Renner's proposals to raise ticket prices and live-stream premiers online.
It was just extremely realistic.... [From the chapter, "For Those Who Seize Power by Crime," from "The Prince"] "Cruelties inflicted immediately to secure one's position are well inflicted (if one may speak well of ill)." Note this last proviso: Machiavelli still considered himself moral, even if his advice was not... Machiavelli's book is advice to a prince on how to run a state.
If all the pain he has inflicted had transformed Britain's fiscal position, his policies could perhaps be defended.
Catching the French off guard, Rif fighters overran dozens of frontline positions, inflicting some 6,000 French casualties and endangering the important urban centres of Fès and Taza.
The South Korean military said its artillery response last month inflicted heavy damage on North Korean positions.
Here, he received his first Navy Cross for actions in which "his exhibition of coolness, intrepidity, and dash so inspired his men that superior forces of bandits were driven from their prepared positions and severe losses inflicted upon them".
