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Example sentences for: inflicting

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About a month ago, the NYT ran a front-page story revealing that crash tests show sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks are inflicting very high levels of harm to cars and their occupants in collisions, and today the Times brings word that in response, some big insurance companies are raising their liability rates on the oversize vehicles.
Papers should avoid inflicting this sort of information on the reader sans context.
The new English language Arab Daily said Thursday that the government's clampdown on "bad news" has "opened the door to rumors, inflicting a higher toll on the people than the truth would achieve."
Like any other endeavor where helpless animals are placed at a disadvantage (in this case, they spin the pheasants first to make them dizzy) in order to provide adorable little children with the joy of inflicting pain and causing death.
Hypothesis 3 says that when I buy a $100 gun, I protect myself from, say, $150 worth of property loss, while inflicting, say, $75 worth of property loss on my neighbors--because half the criminals who try unsuccessfully to rob me go on to rob someone else instead.