Impose (pain)

Usage examples of inflict.

America, Adams warned, could face subjugation of the kind inflicted on Ireland.

Hunter, whom I should not have believed to have been very scrupulous about inflicting suffering upon animals, nevertheless censures Spallanzani for the unmeaning repetition of similar experiments.

We sincerely trust that this interview may be the means of putting an end to the unjustifiable brutalities too often inflicted on the lower animals under the guise of scientific experimentation.

In all veterinary schools, under such conditions, an incalculable amount of pain inflicted on animals becomes a part of the regular instruction of students.

So far, the Act facilitates the prosecution of science by competent persons, while it protects animals from the cruelty which might be inflicted by ignorant and unskilful hands.

The reasons for inflicting prolonged torment upon animals are wholly inadequate for its justification.

Even admitting that experiments on animals have contributed to the relief of human suffering, such measure of relief is infinitesimal compared with the pain which has been inflicted to secure it.

Cannot the public leave it solely to us to determine what pain may be inflicted upon animals, being certain that no more suffering will be caused than we deem to be necessary for success?

The Mahars had offered fabulous rewards for the capture of any one of us alive, and at the same time had threatened to inflict the direst punishment upon whomever should harm us.

A people accustomed to applaud the clemency of the conqueror, if the usual punishments of death, exile, and confiscation, were inflicted with any degree of temper and equity, beheld, with the most pleasing astonishment, a civil war, the flames of which were extinguished in the field of battle.

If, on the other hand, we recollect the universal toleration of Polytheism, as it was invariably maintained by the faith of the people, the incredulity of philosophers, and the policy of the Roman senate and emperors, we are at a loss to discover what new offence the Christians had committed, what new provocation could exasperate the mild indifference of antiquity, and what new motives could urge the Roman princes, who beheld without concern a thousand forms of religion subsisting in peace under their gentle sway, to inflict a severe punishment on any part of their subjects, who had chosen for themselves a singular but an inoffensive mode of faith and worship.

In a bizarre perversion of Beltane where the fertile body was worshiped and enhanced, these creatures inflicted selfmutilation with split switches, small knives, and burning coals.

And she would not inflict such a terrible load on her dearest friend Blackie, she had said.

However, we know these things: the blackmailer is ingenious, someone who is getting pleasure out of the pain and mental suffering that is being inflicted, and who is afraid of the slightest hint that might tie him into this whole affair.

They have new systems for locating our boats and are inflicting heavy losses on us, fifteen to seventeen U-boats a month.