Sentence examples for started to inflict from inspiring English sources

The Russian economy has been teetering for months as the combined bite of falling oil prices and Western sanctions over its involvement in the Ukraine crisis have slowly started to inflict pain on Moscow, Russia's financial hub.

As Obama and his aides have done for weeks, the president in his radio address offered a litany of hardships he said would flow from the sequester, saying, "Severe budget cuts... have already started to inflict pain on communities across the country".

Another man said it made no sense to start to inflict damage on one part of the moor when the whole area barbecue free at present.

At the line,"Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore", this Othello starts to inflict Abu-Ghraib-style torture methods on his nemesis, whom he nearly asphyxiates with a plastic bag.

But if you can just hang onto them over the first four or five holes, you can start to inflict some damage.

Yet, as Advanced Micro Devices starts to inflict major damage on Intel in the microprocessor space, the commoditization of processors is a more likely explanation for a more closely fought battle than is the management theory.

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Just hours after across-the-board spending cuts officially took effect, President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Saturday to work with him on a compromise to halt a fiscal crisis he said was starting to "inflict pain" on communities across the United States.

"High-rent blight" happens when rising property values, usually understood as a sign of prosperity, start to inflict damage on the city economics that Jane Jacobs wrote about.

"By the time many firms realise this - the damage has already started to be inflicted," he added.

If an enemy is rushing toward you from a distance, it can help to switch to your shotgun and start shooting to inflict some damage before he or she is within the range of your flamethrower.

4G has barely started to roll out in the UK, but it's already known that it will inflict some interference on digital TV.