Sentence examples for visit on him from inspiring English sources

To visit on him a tidy, state-sanctioned and technically efficient fraction of the homicide he visited on his victims seems a tiny evil we must endure, a vaccination against madness and inhumanity.

Indeed, Mr. Carter's 25th book, "White House Diary," the edited and annotated journals of his turbulent years in office, reminds one of the plagues visited on him, many beyond his control, and the way he stumbled, suffered, tried to do the right thing, tried to understand his errors and seemed to believe that politics in a fallen world doomed him to being unappreciated.

But, after strenuous attempts at provocation, he was underwhelmed by the contempt visited on him.

And that night, he had felt certain, the fire would be visited on him.

The addiction wasn't chosen: it was a fate visited on him.

A violence had been visited on him in the form of his soft, brilliant head coming into contact with an unyielding and uncaring tree.

Having begun by condemning Mr. Hussein, he switched to castigating American troops for the "humiliation" they visited on him at his arrest.

When his father died four months later, he says, he "wondered whether I had shortened" his life "from the shock I had visited on him with my news of the tragic accident on Chappaquiddick Island.

The beautiful Bonnie is destined for a life as a junkie porn star; Poor Eddie is a geeky weakling with a propensity for healing; "Mad Bantu" lives with an affliction that was visited on him in utero (his prostitute mother bungled an abortion); Jean-Marie is a gerontophiliac.

Homer has made Bart's visit conditional on him getting at least a C average on his report card.

Mr. Vanchytskyy had returned from a visit to him on Friday.