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How to use infliction in a sentence

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The RSPCA believes that current practices in angling do involve infliction of pain and suffering on fish.
The gist of the tort of unlawful interference is the intentional infliction of economic harm.
If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
This provides an intellectual and quasi-moral cover for aggressive class warfare and infliction of pain on the weak.
The creation of memory, however, is no longer seen as having resulted from the public infliction of physical pain.
Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself.
Athlete's foot is another common infliction, and is caused when the acid balance of the skin has become too alkaline.
Quite what the South Africans have done to warrant this infliction I'd better not speculate on.
It had not been suggested by the appellant that there had been intentional infliction on him of pain by a public official.
There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain.
Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
Physical abuse is the willful infliction of physical pain or injury, e.g., slapping, bruising, sexually molesting, or restraining.
The doctors said, your Honour, that these injuries would have caused really substantial pain at the time of their infliction.
This wasn't some boredom induced vandalism, this was deliberate infliction of horrendous pain on one of the most harmless and appealing creatures there is.
His lawsuit alleges defamation of character, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Any case involving a teacher who beats a child is referred to the courts for the infliction of the appropriate penalty.
To conclude, I am very glad that we wish to recognise the conscious infliction of damage to the environment as a violation of human rights.
I answer that, Vengeance consists in the infliction of a penal evil on one who has sinned.
To this end, they may commit numerous breaches of their obligations which can in turn result in infliction of damages on a State Party.
It tries to use crude epidemiological models like those used to study disease and applies them to the conscious infliction of violence by human beings.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They do not think me half a Van Doren because, owing to my mother's way of bringing me up, I have escaped the family infliction.
The infliction of such a burden upon the ratepayers of Ireland was felt to be inequitable.
And then, no infliction that Heaven might now cast upon him could be too heavy.
Well, we can only pledge ourselves not to exaggerate the infliction of these evils.
Sharp shoe-calks afford a means of infliction of penetrant wounds which may occasion open joint and infectious arthritis.
Self-immolation were easy in comparison with the infliction of one pang on her.
Why, too, should they transfer any portion of the infliction to their posterity?
He did not at all feel the relief he should have felt at forgoing his daily infliction.
And the first thing that occurred was the infliction on us of a placard fairly reeking with wretched English.
To the individual before us, it could only be a grief, intense in due proportion with the severity of the infliction.
He suffers twice as much as the child from the infliction of the pain.
The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
He writhed and wriggled under the infliction, but, fully convinced of my skill, endured the pain like a martyr.
They were at a loss to know whether he had been scalped in battle, or enjoyed a natural immunity from that belligerent infliction.
Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation.
Which enabled Ida to bear the infliction with some degree of philosophy.
Why should they transfer any of the infliction to their posterity?
The river deities, however, like those of the sea, were to be propitiated by a bribe, and the infliction of these rude honors to be parried by a treat to the adepts.
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