Sentence examples for visited on countries from inspiring English sources

Calumnies of this kind, suggested a statement by the largest of parliament's reform factions, tend to be visited on countries whose people "have despaired of the regime meeting their desires".

One should remember that such wars are visited on countries by their own leaders who oppress their people, threaten others and hinder global stability.

The exhibition, "On the Frontline," records the havoc Pretoria visited on neighboring countries for colluding with the A.N.C. and SWAPO.

The irony is that Britain, the US and Australia are now inflicting on themselves many of the devastations they have visited on other countries.

It enumerates the problems that will be visited on particular countries: "Mozambique will be destroyed by its own machinery," and "Japan will have rain falling for as long as my Father wants".

What follows is an extremely sophisticated and passionate description of the political nightmare visited on small countries by great and powerful nations, detail by detail, the shadowy moves at the margins of the nightly news since the days of Vietnam.

Santos speaks with some moral authority given the carnage visited on his country over the last 30 years.

But the mere fact of brutal spending cuts being visited on a country was not enough to guarantee rioting or obvious forms of social unrest.

Waking up is unimaginable, because living in reality would require one to confront the atrocities of Chinese history, and to understand the catastrophe that the Party has visited on the country.

The author of a biography of Abigail Adams, Levin has written a rich, rousing narrative that begins as a romance and ends as an "outrage visited on the country's institutions".

The directors recognize that the drama in this story is so potent it doesn't require any icing and that there's a bigger story between the lines, a subtext about psychological violence visited on a country, generation after generation.