Word: inflicting
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...wonder if the nineteen members who were not accounted for during the roll call on the bylaws amendment on March 11 or the 46 missing delegates whose lack of attendance temporarily shut down the Council last Sunday realize the actual and potential damage they are helping inflict upon the Council...
...ages and circumstances. Grownups try to keep him from the ravages of knowledge. Tommy's mother tersely declares, "We bury the dead and then we get on with it ... Grief is something we carry inside us - here, get into your snowsuit - it's not polite to inflict it on others." But there is no escaping from natural law. Tommy learns to place the comforting theories of his teachers and parents alongside the facts of the human predicament as he sees and hears them. The result is irony, a tone that McPherson manages with untiring subtlety and poignance...
...main order of business for Chernenko, however, was the Soviet economy, which has been plagued by slower growth and widespread inefficiency. Borrowing some of the very words that Andropov had used in several speeches, Chernenko complained about "slackness" and "irresponsibility," noting that they "inflict serious social, moral damage." According to Chernenko, the whole Soviet economic machine was in need of "serious restructuring." Said he: "We expect from our economic executives more independence at all levels, a bold search and, if necessary, a well-justified risk in the name of increasing the effectiveness of the economy and ensuring a rise...
...allocation, for higher education contained in the Reagan budget, should it be adopted, promises only to inflict further damage on our nation's universities. The budget calls for cuts of $300 million in federally funded, need-based student programs including the elimination of Supplemental, Grants for school financial aid programs and National Direct Loans...
...ambiguous Soviet predictions of nuclear victory. For example, the 1972 edition of the book Marxism-Leninism on War and Army, written by a collective of authors, declared, "Today's weapons make it possible to achieve strategic objectives very quickly. The very first nuclear attack on the enemy may inflict such immense casualties and produce such vast destruction that his economic, moral-political and military capabilities will collapse...