Sentence examples for would have inflicted from inspiring English sources

"We would have inflicted great damage on the eurozone in addition to destroying ourselves".

Imagine the damage it would have inflicted on the child if our courts insisted on paternity tests for every case," said Ms. Sathe.

"We are pleased that the court acknowledged that Mr Mosley's move would have inflicted a significant chilling effect on the media".

Indeed the US demanded that the FSA fight the jihadist factions, which would have inflicted huge damage on the revolution and risked its total disintegration.

True, Arsenal was vulnerable down the middle, which is where Messi and Barça did much of their damage, but it sure looked like Messi would have inflicted it somewhere else if that breach in the defense had somehow been solved.

"If those budget measures do not pass the parliament and the ratings agency then takes the action that they have clearly warned about, then the Labor party would have inflicted a ratings downgrade on this country".

But the planned bombardment by cruise missiles would certainly have inflicted real damage, most likely including civilian casualties, and would have raised the risks of escalation and retaliation that few world leaders wanted to deal with.

If he really loved her, he would never have inflicted that on her".

Arguably, if they had sold off more of the paper, spreading the risks across a bigger pool of investors, the bursting of the housing bubble would not have inflicted so much economic damage (although there was no way we were going to avoid serious pain, given the magnitude of the drop in housing prices).

The latter penetrated the armoured deck but failed to explode and would probably have inflicted serious damage, possibly even sinking the ship, had it done so.

Thus, he prepared Operation Herbstnebel, a less ambitious attack that did not aim to cross the Meuse, but would still have inflicted a severe setback on the Western Allied Army groups now bearing down on the Franco-German border.