The police are half-hearted over it, knowing it to be a thankless task even to effect a capture; for no magistrate ever inflicts more than a very nominal punishment, either on principals or accessories.
We see that lightning does not always make a great distinction between the blows which it inflicts on men and those which it inflicts on animals.
Secondly, one inflicts punishments upon a beast, despite its lack of reason and freedom, when one deems that this may serve to correct it: thus one punishes dogs and horses, and indeed with much success.
How light are all evils flowing from intemperance compared with those which it thus inflicts on man's higher nature.
But even that picture pales, as I conjure up, without any stretch of imagination, the devastations which the same agent inflicts on the mind.
In one brief day, Juan Diez's nature changed, and he became what he is, cold to the misery he inflicts on others, from the fearful remembrance of what he underwent himself.
What is the severest punishment God inflicts for the violation of his laws?
A kind and loving parent sometimes inflicts punishment upon a child because the child has violated a rule.
It is because it inflicts pain or suffering, present or prospective, or cuts them off from enjoyment which they might otherwise attain.
If he inflicts on him such punishment as will permanently impair his strength, he inflicts a loss on himself, and so if he requires of him excessive labor.
Does not the voice of nature inform every one, that he is guilty of wrong when he inflicts on them pain without necessity or object?
For the future I shall know exactly what to do when the reverend Boer inflicts his small talk on me.
So that, if writing indecent poems is an offence against good taste, it means that it also inflicts some such injury.
To this I answer by saying that, since war is made for purposes either of offence or defence, we have first to see in which of these two kinds of warfare artillery gives the greater advantage or inflicts the greater hurt.
For those wounds or other injuries which a man inflicts upon himself by choice, and of his own free will, pain him far less than those inflicted by another.
Wherefore he that disturbs another's conscience by confounding him inflicts a special injury on him: hence derision is a special kind of sin.
When the secular powerinflicts punishment in order to withdraw men from sin, it is acting as God's minister, according to Rom.
To keep back what is due to another, inflicts the same kind of injury as taking a thing unjustly: wherefore an unjust detention is included in an unjust taking.
Nor is it inconsistent with patience that a man should, when necessary, rise up against the man who inflicts evils on him; for Chrysostom [*Homily v.
The Church inflicts not the death of the body, but excommunication in its stead.
In one way, as a simple movement of the will, whereby one inflicts punishment, not through passion, but in virtue of a judgment of the reason: and thus without doubt lack of anger is a sin.
We must therefore consider these points in due order, and in the first place we shall consider murder whereby a man inflicts the greatest injury on his neighbor.
Yet sometimes a brave man does not endure evils patiently, but even attacks the person who inflicts the evil.
In fact it is a mortal sin in the man who attacks another unjustly, for it is not without mortal sin that one inflicts harm on another even if the deed be done by the hands.
For he inflicts an injury both on the judge, whom he hinders in the exercise of his office, and on his adversary, whose justice he disturbs as far as he is able.
On the other hand, to break out into hatred of God when He inflicts those punishments, is to hate God's very justice, and that is a most grievous sin.
To many patients, therefore, the detention in a workhouse is a punishment superadded to the many miseries their mental disorder inflicts upon them; and consequently, when viewed only in this light, ought not to be tolerated.
As with the class last spoken of, so with this one, the law inflicts a like injury and social degradation, and at the same time operates in impeding their access to proper treatment.
Every hurt we inflict on our souls, every discouragement into which we lead ourselves, is not only a wrong to God, butinflicts a hurt on every soul that is bound up with us in the Communion of Saints.
He inflicts instant and crushing defeat upon His adversary by turning His attention, not to the character of the temptation, but straight to the will of the Father.
Applying this principle to the subject in hand, we find that Absenteeism inflicts an injury upon Ireland, in addition to, and quite distinct from the one, which results from the nature of the commodities sent by Ireland to England.
M'Culloch, who maintains that, according to the accepted principles of political economy, the fact of Irish landed proprietors residing out of their country inflicts no injury upon it.
When a ball does not penetrate, but simply inflicts a contusion, the pain is described to be more severe than where an opening has been made by it.
God does not inflict penalty simply to satisfy himself or to manifest his holiness, any more than an earthly father inflicts suffering on his child to show his wrath against the wrongdoer or to manifest his own goodness.
A visit to the public institutions on Blackwell's and Randall's Islands will prove that this is but one item of the expenses which prostitution inflicts upon the community.
In default of this notice, or even of the privacy required, the keeper is liable to the same punishment as the law inflicts for being knowingly accessory to illness of other people.
Now, this system we cannot help considering as an evil, because it inflictsupon boys, for two or three years of their lives, many painful hardships, and much unpleasant servitude.
It is not that human beings can live without occasional wars, but they may live with fewer wars, and take more just views of the evils which war inflicts upon mankind.
Siegfried wins Kriemhilde by a long wooing in the truly romantic fashion of the period of Minne song, but later inflicts upon her, in the truly old Germanic fashion, a severe physical chastisement for her quarrelsome temper.
After their union, Sigurd abandons her for the love of Gudrun, and even inflicts upon her the disgrace of winning her for Gunnar, whom he impersonates.
Dietrich inflicts a severe wound upon Hagen, seizes him with his mighty arms, chains him in his lion's grasp, and thus delivers him to Kriemhilde.
In so far as pain is suffered, evil is inflicted; and conduct which inflicts any evil cannot be absolutely good.
He has a strong motive for restraining quarrels, and therefore for preventing the aggressions which cause quarrels; and as his power becomes greater he forbids the aggressions and inflicts punishments for disobedience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflicts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
