Sentence examples for were inflicted upon from inspiring English sources

Unspeakable horrors were inflicted upon Poland during the war, but to tacitly assert that minorities in the Second Republic were not subject to discrimination and the kind of violence manifest in Nazi Germany in 1938 is a sickening falsehood.

Some are horribly, even obscenely wrong in their reasons for objecting to it, notably those who blame America itself for the horrors that were inflicted upon it last week in New York and Washington, DC (see article).

His experiences possibly explain the sexual terrors he claimed were inflicted upon him by intruders while he slept.

"They showed the marks of what they said were inflicted upon them by [the] Australian navy - but we don't know for sure because the only witnesses are among themselves," detective Sam Kawengian told ABC.

BHL: Is it true that you were there when the 99 lashes were inflicted upon your mother?

And they're routinely treated in ways that would result in criminal prosecution if these same abuses were inflicted upon dogs or cats.

During the Gulf War, he was assigned to Central Command Headquarters, in Ryadh, Saudi Arabia, where he was charged with the task of measuring the damage that coalition forces were inflicting upon Iraq's war machine.

The Republicans did not care one iota about all of the pain and suffering they were inflicting upon ordinary people across the nation.

Blow after blow was inflicted upon my naked body.

"Even when things are inflicted upon us, or we inflict them upon ourselves, we have great resiliency," Van Gundy said.

The pit, a negative image of the original tower, is the wound that was inflicted upon us collectively.