Sentence examples for inflicting fear from inspiring English sources

It's inflicting fear in other students.

Above all, they ruled by inflicting fear and, thanks to the endless bravery of their opponents, they ended up fearing rebellion, watching with real anxiety as their opposite numbers in eastern Europe were ousted and sometimes killed by those they had oppressed.

"[Gilberton's] life was stolen by an abusive man with a long history of inflicting fear, harm and injury on women," Marsha Scott of Scottish Women's Aid told the Sunday Post.

More important, it has inflicted fear, misery and death on its intended beneficiaries.

It inflicts fear on the whole community.

Those alarming numbers have inflicted fear in many Americans.

To force these communities to relocate, the group planned to inflict fear and destroy homes and property until the victims left the region.

He sees Anderson as obsessed with, and greatly enjoying, the ability to inflict fear and suffering in his victims, and suggests he suffered from the most severe type of sadistic personality disorder.

Sean Carney told jurors that Burkhart tried to inflict "fear on the entire community" in a "quest for revenge" after his mother was arrested in the United States in connection with a criminal case in Germany.

The threat by the Iranian government to stone to death Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani on a conviction of adultery is not based on the evidence of four eyewitnesses, but on a judicial authority determined to inflict fear and intimidation on the Iranian population.

That said, he has a practical awareness of the limited capabilities of the mostly illiterate, ill-trained, poverty-stricken Taliban militants in the tribal areas -- that while they can inflict fear into local communities, they have little chance of threatening U.S. security.