Word: infliction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mountainous south between the military and Abu Sayyaf rebels, who have joined with renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim guerrilla group that once agitated for an independent state. Abu Sayyaf, moreover, has promised further attacks in urban areas. "We will find ways and means to inflict more harm," Sulaiman told the radio host...
...awkward to sit near him and inflict yourself upon him. I desperately wanted to. He didn’t dislike company… but I was shy. But he didn’t give the impression he minded company. It was especially awkward, deliciously awkward, when his songs would plan in the dining hall. Island In The Sun, at least 3 times...
...mother's main caregiver, but your sister might be thinking, "She has no idea what I did, living with Mom and caring for her around the clock." At best, your sister is handling the money responsibly but doesn't want to be micromanaged--or she's withholding information to inflict psychic punishment on you. At worst, she's using the POA to raid your mother's assets for her own benefit. That's harsh, but if it turns out to be true, you can be sure she thinks she deserves the money...
...system at the prison became an instrument of abuse, by design and by neglect. As uncovered by legal scholars M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan Marks, who conducted an inquiry published by the New England Journal of Medicine, not only were some military doctors at Abu Ghraib enlisted to help inflict distress on the prisoners, but also the scarcity of basic medical care was at times so severe that it created another kind of torture...
...Iraq without a democratic popular mandate. There can be no underestimating the epic significance of that principle in a country that has, for most of its history, been run by autocrats and thugs who derived authority either from the backing of foreign powers, or from their own ability to inflict pain on fellow citizens...