Jude Fawley's inability to support his offspring, and the consequent misery he inflicts on Sue, forms a useful shield for the modern financially-precarious child.
News Corp columnist Wendy Tuohy wrote in response to Latham about a woman she knows who lives in a "posh house" in a wealthy Melbourne suburb and who lies about the purple bruises her husband inflicts.
The Abbott government's first budget inflicts deep pain on unemployed and sick people, students, pensioners and families but does little to strengthen the economy or quickly "repair" the budget.
But they represent a classic externality an uncompensated, unpriced harm the smoker inflicts on others which can justify quite draconian measures even in a liberal's eyes.Some of the new paternalists, however, justify smoking restrictions on less orthodox grounds.
In an opinion piece for the Times, he called APD a "grotesque monster" that must be "put out of its misery" before it inflicts any more damage.Gulliver has some sympathy with those readers who have been swept up by the industry's unrelenting APD-bashing.
As presently envisaged, Mr Olmert's barrier bites big lumps off the West Bank, locks the Palestinians out of Jerusalem and inflicts severe hardship on the people who live in the barrier's path.
It argues that such sentiments are "ill-founded and dangerously mistaken .It is true that the Obama administration habitually inflicts gaffes, snubs and missteps on its allies.
But this actually adds to the emotional toll it inflicts.
And the second inflicts economic pain and could stir up social strife.
Central banks can step in by raising interest rates to kill the boom but that inflicts collateral damage on the rest of the economy, which may be blameless.
He inflicts his raging anger on any target in sight, from family members to household appliances.
