Sentence examples for we were inflicting from inspiring English sources

"The genocide we were inflicting on each other was really hurting me.

During the five or so days we spent on the road with them, we had ample opportunity to reflect on what sorts of terrible harms we were inflicting on their fragile little toddler brains.

Sooner or later, society will recognize all the damage we are inflicting upon our planetary paradise.

A country with this many natural assets should be celebrating, and instead we're inflicting wounds on ourselves.

Granted, there is considerable uncertainty about the scale of the damage we are inflicting on the earth.

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the damage we are inflicting upon the planet, at both the public and private levels.

We turn a blind eye to the atrocities we are inflicting on innocent people – the murders, the rapes, the denial of proper medical and psychological care and the child abuse – because we are selfish.

I'm not saying that everybody's going to be a vegetarian or a vegan, but we will be horrified by the terrible amount of suffering that we're inflicting".

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

"The way for them to foil this strategy is for them simply to refuse to accept a ceasefire on terms acceptable to us, no matter how much pain we're inflicting.

How can we sit back and listen to the sanguine, morally righteous pronouncements of our leaders on the progress of the war without feeling deeply ashamed and revolted by the devastation that we are inflicting on a desperately poor, war-ravaged country in the name of fighting terrorism?