Sentence examples for was inflicted with from inspiring English sources

"Only an idiot would believe Mugabe won't win the election, and by 'win' I mean 'steal,' " said Raymond Majongwe, the union's secretary general, still nursing a bruise above his left eye that he said was inflicted with a Coke bottle.

Five years later, she was inflicted with - blessed with, as she would say - stigmata, which reproduced the wounds Christ received on the cross on her hands and feet and in her side.

It wasn't until 1980, when the government was overthrown in a military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, that Liberia was inflicted with the kind of openly despotic misrule that is a feature of life in much of Africa.

That this suffering and death was inflicted with specific and murderous intent affronts the basic morality of human civilization.

Does the laboratory, like the prison, provide a special kind of environment in which pain can be inflicted with approval?

And yet, after prolonged viewing, every crack, dent, and crumbling texture seems specific and intended, as if destruction could be inflicted with finesse.

God forbid the NHS will be inflicted with another eager politician hoping to make their name with yet another Big New NHS Idea.

The postmortem report into his death found the main cause was bleeding from a wound to his wrist "entirely consistent with being inflicted with a bladed weapon".

In time, I suppose we vied with each other, merrily boasting who'd been inflicted with the best, or rather worse, of literals and misprints.

Recent experiments funded by the ALS Association, mice had holes drilled into their skulls, were inflicted with crippling illnesses, and were forced to run on an inclined treadmill until they collapsed from exhaustion.

Mr. Mayers said that like Mr. Gore, Mr. Kerry "can be inflicted with senatoritis, and he has had trouble connecting with people in a state where pretension does not play well and likability often trumps policy".