Word: infliction
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...continuity of terrorism.Despite the breadth of terrorist groups that Richardson examines, she is able to isolate terrorism as the preferred means for weak sub-state groups to challenge powerful geopolitical entities. Richardson argues that terrorists strive for revenge, renown, and reaction. Terrorists have long been unable to inflict large numbers of casualties, instead exacting their revenge by causing panic and fear. The most popular and effective terrorist technique is the suicide attack, which depends on the support of the community. Richardson demonstrates that by cutting off this community support, terrorist groups would lose their potency.With this general understanding of global...
However, Sandler said that because she did not know how the assailants and victim were moving during the attack, she could not definitively determine the force used to inflict each wound...
Well, I think a new President comes in and wants to fix the problems--whatever the problems are. And if you look back at the first year of most Presidents, they take steps and operate under the thesis that maybe I've got to inflict a little pain, but I'll do it in the first year so that by the fourth year they won't remember. That's been the story of politics in this country for a long time...
...medical profession. According to a new survey of more than 1,700 students from eight medical schools, an alarming number of future physicians may not be familiar enough with the Geneva conventions to recognize torture. Worse, even some who do know what it is may be willing to inflict it anyway...
...policeman will attest that a typical career thief prefers to minimize violence, which raises pressure on the police to catch him and increases severity of the punishment if he is convicted. But young South African muggers and burglars don't just rob for the money. Many want to inflict pain on their victims, beating, raping or killing them. Of the 200,000 robberies every year, more than half are classed as "aggravated," meaning the victim was also assaulted. A friend warned me before I arrived in South Africa nine months ago, "This is political crime," meaning the violence...