Sentence examples for while inflicting from inspiring English sources

Moreover, Obama's advisers argue, the drone war achieved this while inflicting few civilian casualties.

Many Iranians were convinced that Tabibian's reforms would curry favor with the West while inflicting pain upon the poor.

Both parties are pushing political initiatives, trying to avoid tough votes themselves while inflicting them on the other side.

In the Hollywood cliché of Fox's "24," a torturer shouts questions at a bound terrorist while inflicting excruciating pain.

After the Confederates retreated into Vicksburg's fortifications, Grant launched two frontal assaults, suffering over 4,000 casualties while inflicting only 700.

In essence, they aim to take control of the sick bank and keep it operating while inflicting losses on its shareholders and, if necessary, its creditors.

Selig has declined to discuss the matter, but it's likely that he felt the name change might spur additional revenue for the Angels -- and any increase is good -- while not inflicting damage, economic or otherwise, on the Dodgers.

Cis regulatory sequences derived from blood meal-induced/up-regulated mosquito genes allow potentiating swift induction and effective levels of transcription of an associated effector gene, while likely inflicting the least fitness cost [ 54, 55].

B5 ISLAMIC NATIONS MEET Fifty-six Islamic nations issued a statement that avoided condemning the United States' attacks against the ruling Taliban, while warning against inflicting civilian casualties or striking against other Arab states.

While Mao was inflicting the Great Leap Forward on mainland China, Chiang was instituting a widely admired program of land reform on Taiwan, and today the raucously democratic island is often looked to in the People's Republic as a model of prosperity.

Many foster families refuse to take a gay child, while others inflict abuses like those that prompted the runaways to leave home in the first place.