Sentence examples for inflicted with the from inspiring English sources

In time, I suppose we vied with each other, merrily boasting who'd been inflicted with the best, or rather worse, of literals and misprints.

By the same token, the MMR vaccination routinely given to all babies in the UK counts as a similar infringement, as the babies in question have not given consent to being inflicted with the pain of an injection.

And it was impossible not to wonder what sorts of person had brought themselves to resort to euphemisms such as "special ammunition" (chemical weapons), "evacuated" (destroyed) villages, "investigation" (torture? rape?), and sundry terms that masked the true horror of what they inflicted with the stroke of a pen.

It wasn't until 1980, when the government was overthrown in a military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, that Liberia was inflicted with the kind of openly despotic misrule that is a feature of life in much of Africa.

"It was George's turn anyway," Schaffner reflected, "to be inflicted with the poison-pen treatment that the critics had earlier accorded Paul and John.

Treating Alzheimer's patients is fairly common for geriatric specialists, but for my colleague it is also very personal: Her father is inflicted with the disease.

The patient inflicted with this illness is beyond medical help.

The 17-year-old son in the story is inflicted with this cancer.

And after years of sneaking into "verboten" cinematic fare, to paraphrase George Carlin, none of us were inflicted with rotting of the soul, curvature of the spine, or a sudden desire to overthrow the government.

In a foundational 1967 essay, Newton wrote, "Because black people desire to determine their own destiny, they are constantly inflicted with brutality from the occupying army, embodied in the police department.

In an effort to absolve Israel for the hundreds of civilian casualties it has inflicted with U.S.-supplied weaponry, the House resolution "calls on all nations... to lay blame both for the breaking of the calm and for subsequent civilian casualties in Gaza precisely where blame belongs, that is, on Hamas".