Word: inflicting
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...question of responsibility extends beyond dollars and cents. Many Catholics believe that officials in Rome bear a significant moral and administrative burden as the leaders of a hierarchy that allowed these predator priests to inflict such damage. They point out that when the Pope wants to impose new rules for the liturgy, rein in theologians or tighten entrance into seminaries, Rome expects those edicts to be fully applied at the local level. And so, they ask, where was the strong hand from above when it came to protecting the most innocent parishioners? If the burden is on the individual bishops...
...says Peter Neumann, director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College in London. That's the reality of terrorism: it adapts, mutates and constantly challenges our preconceptions. So counterterrorism strategies should do the same thing. That's the best way to limit the damage terrorists can inflict and, ultimately, reduce the supply of new recruits. The failed car bombs are a reminder that it is time to jettison three of our false assumptions about the nature of the terrorist threat...
Terrorists can be sophisticated failures. They can also be amateurish murderers. The only sensible option is to focus on reducing their ability to inflict mass casualties, however they might do it. In other words, with our limited resources, it's more important right now to protect Times Square from an old-school fertilizer bombing, a relatively easy attack that could kill thousands, than to try to prevent an airplane from being taken down by liquid explosives...
...should all be angry about this. Just as issues of race do not solely affect one group, they cannot be solved by one group alone. While it is not necessarily the spiteful intent of a majority of individuals to inflict racial inequalities on people of color, the structure of a society which is heir to a legacy of racial oppression disseminates these negative attitudes throughout our culture...
...Some Koreans even raised the prospect Cho's rampage could possibly inflict damage on U.S-Korea relations, including the recently signed tentative free trade agreement between the two countries...