Word: infliction
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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...
...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...