Retribution may come from any voice; the hardest, cruelest, most imbruted urchin at the street-corner can inflict it; surely help and pity are rarer things, more needful for the righteous to bestow.
" said Wakem, at last, with that vain effort which rage always makes to throw as much punishment as it desires to inflict into words and tones, since blows are forbidden.
In chuckling over the vexations he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand, he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid stagnant presence, and so far as he was preoccupied with a future life, it was with one of gratification inside his coffin.
She thought it cruel to inflict any additional burden on his son and was trying to find out a perfect answer.
"Harvard has failed to carry its demanding burden to show that its use of race does not inflict unlawful racial discrimination on Asian-Americans," the Justice Department said in its filing.
It's meant to inflict emotional injury rather than ask for a timeout.
Hyundai Motor has stopped production at its China factories as the fallout from a political spat between Seoul and Beijing continues to inflict pain on South Korea's largest automaker.
Why would any elected government inflict such a shock, particularly since India's economy is so dependent on transactions in cash?
Mainstream economists paid little heed to the chatter — deeming it too preposterous to take seriously, given the economic damage it would inflict.
Cloning is used in some farm animal breeding programs in the United States, but in September, the European Parliament voted in favor of a ban on cloned animals and their products, arguing that current techniques inflict greater suffering on animals than conventional breeding.
It was he who decided when to inflict drought, storms, famine or pestilence upon human beings.
Lots of them feel people have no right to inflict their distorted sense of aesthetics on helpless animals.
What torture we inflict upon ourselves.
When you ask your boyfriend if he wants to see the new foreign film showing in theaters, and he knows that you know full-well that he doesn't, why would he simply say "no thanks" when he can respond with "I'd rather inflict myself with a thousand paper cuts and take a bath in lemon juice"?
She thought it cruel to inflict any additional burden on his son and was trying to find out a perfect answer.
Everywhere you look, you can find people unconcerned or unaware of the pain they inflict.
That assumption led Cory-Slechta to design a set of experiments that would show whether ultrafine particles have a damaging effect on the brain, and if so, to reveal the mechanism by which they inflict harm.
Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968) The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
That assumption led Cory-Slechta to design a set of experiments that would show whether ultrafine particles have a damaging effect on the brain, and if so, to reveal the mechanism by which they inflict harm.
But the poor lady was so much beloved at Court that not even the dread of sharing her fate could prevent the grand-vizir and the courtiers from throwing themselves at the Sultan's feet and imploring him not to inflict so cruel a punishment for what, after all, was not her fault.
