Sentence examples for purpose of inflicting from inspiring English sources

Still more are combinations for the purpose of inflicting it.

"Palestinian terrorists are ready to sacrifice their own children for the express purpose of inflicting terror upon Israelis".

"Instead, a defendant is guilty of torture only if he acts with the express purpose of inflicting severe pain or suffering on a person within his control".

Moreover, a person can be found guilty of torture only if he acts with the "express purpose" of inflicting severe pain, mental or physical.

In our view, the jury must have concluded on the evidence before them that Hall was in the second phase of the incident, a party to the common purpose of inflicting unlawful violence on the group".

We have acted to protect ourselves or our families and not for the purpose of inflicting harm.

"A handgun is indisputably capable of inflicting serious injury and damage — as a deadly weapon, that is its very purpose," Spero wrote in a decision last January.

The ostensible purpose of mistreating prisoners is to inflict pain and induce disorientation and despair, creating so much agony that the prisoners give up valuable intelligence in order to end the suffering.

And rather than inflicting damage, the main purpose of such bombings seems to be to combat what it says is a British attempt to "normalize" or "pacify" Northern Ireland by pouring vast amounts of money into economic development.

In his "Newly Discovered Maxims of la Rochefoucauld", Russell remarks that "the purpose of morality is to allow people to inflict suffering without compunction" (Fact and Fiction: 184).

In effect, the policy is to inflict pain for the sake of inflicting pain.