Sentence examples for rather than inflicting from inspiring English sources

Rather than inflicting more punishment on victims, we must identify and eliminate the bad doctors.

Go and be lonely by yourself rather than inflicting your loneliness on a child.' Lochhead: Right or wrong, it's the reason lots of people do have a child.

And most of the time – if it's giving a boost, rather than inflicting a blow, on this or that politician – it doesn't matter.

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.

So rather than inflicting another expensive high-tech gimmick on affluent Americans whose health obsession borders on the neurotic, a company interested in genetics and public health should instead encourage everyone to ask loved ones a few simple questions.

The results, he says, separate out two distinct components that drive our social behavior: the way we conceive of harm to others and our preference for enduring harm rather than inflicting it.

The spokesman said Mr Cameron "thinks that Bob Crow's strike is plain wrong and Bob Crow should call it off rather than inflict misery on hard-working families in London".

Yesterday, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said Mr Cameron "thinks that Bob Crow's strike is plain wrong and he should call it off rather than inflict misery on hard-working families in London".

Like Jesus, they chose to suffer rather than inflict violence.

These include trust and the belief that the partner is there to provide love and security rather than inflict hurt.

A seminal text is the Sermon on the Mount, found in Matthew's gospel, where Jesus instructs his followers to bear violence rather than inflict it.