Sentence examples for intolerable injury from inspiring English sources

The French Revolution of 1789-91 had proclaimed equality among all men; slavery was now an intolerable injury to human nature, and in 1794 the National Assembly in Paris ordered the French in colonial Saint Domingue to liberate their slaves.

The court's unilateral expansion of the states' immunity from the reach of federal law is untethered from the constitutional design, he writes, "without justification of any kind today," threatening "intolerable injury to the enforcement of federal standards" and presenting a "danger to the exercise of democratic government".

Cultural anthropologist Saba Mahmood says that many devout Muslims perceive blasphemy as an almost physical injury: an intolerable offense that hurts both God himself and the whole community of the faithful.

Intolerance is intolerable.

When our old sense of injury or fear is triggered, the intolerable heat and pressure of anger instantly surge through us.

Medicine crime causes iatrogenic injury to patients, which makes it intolerable.

Glick started making wooden toys and crafts in 1979, after a back injury made the toil on his dairy farm intolerable.

Self-injury, they report, provides a way to manage intolerable feelings or a way to experience some sense of feeling.

As it is so tragically evident in the veteran suicide rates described by Bob Herbert, the effect of moral injury can foster internal conflict and self-condemnation that become intolerable.

Approval of claims is based on injury due to the principle of treatment below experienced specialist standard or intolerable, unexpected extensiveness of injury.

Adverse events will be recorded including intolerable pain during acupuncture, bleeding during or after the session, breaking or winding of the needles, injury to organs (eg, pneumothorax) and fainting.