Iran is one of those few nations that could inflict lasting damage to the United States.

His stick, which was a Penang-lawyer weighted with lead, was just such a weapon as might, by repeated blows, have inflicted the terrible injuries to which the trainer had succumbed.

In chess, each army performs maneuvers to gain advantageous positions on the battlefield or to inflict material losses on the opponent.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

The discrepancy between the high moral cost of inflicting pain on these creatures and the insignificant benefit of improving one's appearance is such that the latter cannot be said to outweigh the former.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Was it necessary to inflict such a punishment on him?

Sami received pleasure out of inflicting pain.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.