infliction

How To Use infliction In A Sentence

• Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
• Both sets of norms rest ultimately upon a fundamental principle of proscription concerning the infliction of militarily ' unnecessary suffering '.
• The USDA's Horse Protection Program is meant to protect these wonderful animals, ensuring that Tennessee Walking Horses are not subjected to the abusive practice of "soring" -- the intentional infliction of pain to a horse's legs or hooves in order to force an artificial, exaggerated gait. Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
• It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
• In the course of this lavation, it was discovered the extraordinary flow of blood and brains had been produced by the infliction of a deep wound on the back of the head, by the sharp and ponderous tomahawk of an Indian. Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1
• Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’
• The infliction occasion of the sustain is influenced by the Soil character on ground.
• There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain.
• If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
• He ordered to come at His call the infliction of punishment by "fire" on Israel, that is, drought (compare Am 4: 6-11), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible