Sentence examples for usually inflicts from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

"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.

He shows us how different empires were boosted by periods of "axial thought" to surge up the development ladder, only to crumble upon hitting a "hard ceiling," usually inflicted by what he calls the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse: climate change, migration, famine, epidemic and state failure.

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

It concludes that violence happens everywhere, is usually inflicted by a person known to the child and is almost invariably hidden or left unpunished.