Sentence examples for usually inflicted from inspiring English sources

A quarter-million are confirmed victims of physical and sexual abuse every year, usually inflicted by parents.

It is a time of great poverty, grisly death (usually inflicted on puppets) and enormous reversals of fortune.

For listeners worn down by two months of Christmas music, usually inflicted rather than chosen, it takes a good reason to want to extend the season.

This brutality — usually inflicted by governments — makes me deeply alarmed by President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA.

"Sooner or later, the market will come up with a correction for the abuses that take place here, but once that happens, the damage is usually inflicted on the Japanese people, not the people who were abusive".

When it was first performed in 1837, a happy ending replaced the tragic demise Donizetti usually inflicted on his heroines, as death was not allowed on the Naples stage.

The show's villains usually inflict the more gruesome tortures: their victims are hung on hooks, like carcasses in a butcher shop; poked with smoking-hot scalpels; or abraded with sanding machines.

And things like star ratings or likes are blunt instruments that usually inflict head trauma rather than point the way to great books.

Anyone who runs in Denver's online fan circles on social media or message boards is likely to be familiar with the concept of "Nugg Life," a nearly personified notion of some inexplicable cosmic force of injustice which prevents the team from having good things, and usually inflicts its damage at the most inopportune moments.

Due to their highly reactive properties, ROS have a short half-life and limited diffusion distance [ 33], therefore, they usually inflict cellular damage and impact molecular pathways only near the site of their production [ 34].

Without benefit of the boot in the backside that ex-prime ministers usually have inflicted on them, he has to construct a new life at 54.