The phrase "inflicting suffering" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the action of an individual or group that is causing harm or distress. For example, "The dictator's oppressive policies were inflicting immense suffering on his people."
They are individuals in their own right, suffering and inflicting suffering.
It is a preventable crisis that is inflicting suffering on patients and, in some cases, causing needless deaths.
At a recent seminar on the Gaza conflict, he explained that Israelis had "learnt from the Nazis" in inflicting suffering.
Thus was born satyagraha ("devotion to truth"), a new technique for redressing wrongs through inviting, rather than inflicting, suffering, for resisting adversaries without rancour and fighting them without violence.
What the gods cannot be held responsible for is inflicting suffering in the theatre; and there is no need to blame them, because new company Temple Theatre are doing a good job all on their own in this earnest account of Queen Phaedra's lust for her stepson, Hippolytus.
"Yesterday was not the day, when you are inflicting suffering on people by raising National Insurance, you're not addressing the NHS crisis, you're not tackling the problems we have in social care.
Chiron and Paula certainly suffer (and inflict suffering on each other), but they are liberated from the standard indie-film arc of abjection and redemption.
To cut a long story short, he was born; he lived; he wrote books; he inflicted suffering and occasionally suffered himself.
"If I don't go through with it, my choice is essentially to suffer and to inflict suffering on my family, and then die".
It has inspired people to endure suffering, overcome suffering and inflict suffering on others.
"You can't allow transparency, if what you're trying to do is inflict suffering.
