Sentence examples for its infliction from inspiring English sources

A defeat as painful in its potential consequences as it was passionless in its infliction – when Biarritz are at their most pragmatic, the cold-heartedness of their rugby sends a chill down the spine – leaves Bath playing Heineken Cup catch-up at a depressingly early stage in proceedings.

Pain – its infliction and its suffering – is integral to life.

The pillory was employed in the American colonies, and U.S. federal statutes provided for its infliction until 1839.

The lust for violence is as alien to Spielberg as is lust itself; there's no place in his work for any perverse ecstasy of suffering or of its infliction.

The capacity to feel pain grounds an obligation to avoid its infliction; the capacity to anticipate and dread as well as feel pain may ground a stronger obligation.

In addition, Justice Connolly wrote, it is "unnecessarily cruel in its purposeless infliction of physical violence and mutilation of the prisoner's body".

David Roth of SB Nation pinpoints this as the most depressing part of a thoroughly depressing resolution: The NFL could mitigate, in any number of ways, the carnage the game makes, before and during and after its systematic infliction.

Because of the private nature of the infliction, it is impossible to estimate the death toll.

The California Supreme Court said in its majority opinion that depending on what happens next, Intel might have the option of suing for interference with its business prospects, defamation or infliction of emotional distress.

It is known that Mtb survives a constant threat of redox stress either as a consequence of its aerobic metabolism or as infliction by the host to prevent the establishment of a successful infection.

Andrew Unterberg and Sean McManus's "Infliction of Cruelty" takes its name from a quotation from Bertrand Russell, and concludes abruptly with a reference to Balzac.