Word: inflicting
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...members. It’s difficult to say whether this dubious move was made to provide visual interest or because none of the band members wanted to be associated with the chorus (I would understand the latter). What is clear is that Mike Shinoda has no compelling reason to inflict himself and his “music” on the world through two bands; one was far more than enough.—Elisabeth J. Bloomberg
...against Zarqawi's terrorism. Among the first to condemn the hotel attacks was the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan's most influential fundamentalist group. "What jihad is this," asked Jordanian columnist Taher Adwan, "when a young Arab man enters a hall where a wedding of Jordanian citizens is taking place to inflict the heaviest losses in life?" A similar local backlash against terrorism occurred when al-Qaeda attacks killed civilians in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Egypt...
...Soviet patron; backing the wrong side in the Gulf War cost him his wealthy oil-state sponsors. The Israelis were growing weary of the economic and moral costs of the endless occupation. In South Africa the white minority faced a catastrophe: a main achievement of apartheid had been to inflict fatal damage on the country's economy. As for Mandela's African National Congress, it foresaw a descent into chaos and civil war that might destroy any nation worth its inheriting. And so on. Some thought that South Africa and the Middle East proved what might be called the Exhaustion...
...Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, contends that “U.S. forces in Iraq have largely concentrated their efforts on hunting down and killing insurgents.” He adds that “the current record [of this approach] is not good: even when an attack manages to inflict serious insurgent casualties, there is little or no enduring improvement in security once U.S. forces withdraw from the area.”Krepinevich insists that the U.S. “should concentrate on providing security and opportunity to the Iraqi people, thereby denying insurgents the popular support they need...
...this last aspect that makes Matt say, in slightly cheesy voice-over form, “I was about to learn something no Ivy League school in the world could teach me;” basically, he learns to inflict physical rather than mental pain upon others...