Sentence examples for war inflicted from inspiring English sources

The war inflicted great suffering and left the regional economy in shambles.

The sufferings that the war inflicted on the defeated people moved him to such remorse that he renounced armed conquests.

Not once has he expressed regret for what a dozen years of sanctions and war inflicted on the Iraqi people.

That's important, but we also have to keep an eye on the big picture, the terrible and global tear that the war inflicted on mankind.

The second world war inflicted not only physical damage on the City of London but also imposed a significant human cost on the financial sector in terms of international connections and loss of knowledge.

The other entries are Mikhail Kalatozov's 1957 Palme D'Or winner, The Cranes Are Flying, which concentrates on the psychological damage the war inflicted on the Soviet psyche, and 2001's Stalingrad-based sniper movie Enemy At The Gates starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris.

"To realists," Bass writes, "a war crimes tribunal is simply something that the countries that decisively win a war inflict on the helpless country that loses it.

But the play still offers a compelling picture of the damage war inflicts on the individual psyche, and of the insane demands it places on the leaders as well as the led.

Nor should we forget, when condemning Soviet repression in eastern Europe that allied airforces bombed German and Japanese cities up to the very end of the war, inflicting the deaths of more than 600,000 civilians and opening the nuclear age.

Like "Monsieur Lazhar" last year and "Incendies" the year before, this year's Canadian submission, "War Witch," looks at the damage that war inflicts not just on societies but also on innocent people, though the focus is on a situation in sub-Saharan Africa rather than the Arab world.

I don't oppose a reckless withdrawal from Iraq because I'm indifferent to the suffering war inflicts on too many American families.