Sentence examples for should not inflict from inspiring English sources
Human beings, they believed, should not inflict harm on any sentient creature.
Those who have wives and daughters should not inflict them on those escaping them.
But of course they should not inflict violence on their children, or break the law.
If Mom herself cannot control her unhealthy diet, she should not inflict this problem on her children.
Mr. Putin said he had no reason to doubt the appropriateness of the guilty verdict against the 54-year-old businessman, but added that the activities of intelligence agencies, charged with protecting national security, "should not inflict damage on relations between nations, the more so in the case of such key countries as Russia and the United States".
The largely symbolic sanctions which lack any real bite shouldn't inflict too much damage in the short term but Russia has a job on its hands to stem the rot as investors flee the region.
The powerful countries should consider a strategy that does not inflict even more pain upon those they propose to help.
Many (but not all) retributive theories also claim that punishment should not be inflicted on a person unless he is found guilty of a specific offense (thus, they would prohibit collective punishment and the taking of hostages from the general population).
My sense is that a lot of what's going on in our ongoing policy disaster is that important people, up to and including the president, just find it implausible that such a big crisis could be essentially a problem of coordination, that it's just magneto trouble whose fix need not, in fact should not, involve inflicting a lot of punishment on working Americans.
"The ban is something we are not happy with and it's a decision that we think should not be inflicted on The Gambia".
So conceived, objectivity was important to the logical positivists' and empiricists' criticism of the Nazi idea that Jews and Aryans have fundamentally different thought processes such that physical theories suitable for Einstein and his kind should not be inflicted on German students.
