It is a synecdoche for the infliction of pain.
The law defines torture as the infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering.
That law defines torture as the infliction of "severe physical or mental pain or suffering".
The prohibited conduct includes torture, murder, rape, and the infliction of severe physical or mental pain.
We've become pretty comfortable watching the infliction of pain, and quick to laugh it off.
Allowing suits without clear damages, however, also invites the infliction of serious and undue harm.
_" he yelled, and his previous worldliness changed to boyish giddiness at the infliction of violence on an inanimate object.
Thus, art and life converge, and the proof of a fruitful bond is the endurance and the infliction of pain.
Is torture - the infliction of pain for political ends - as big a problem now as it was then?
In the treaty, torture is defined as the infliction of "extreme pain or suffering, whether physical or mental".
Sadism, psychosexual disorder in which sexual urges are gratified by the infliction of pain on another person.
