Word: inflicts
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...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...
...Gonzales asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel for an opinion on the definition of illegal interrogation methods. On Aug. 1, 2002, Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee sent Gonzales the following guidance: the President is within his legal limits to permit his surrogates to inflict "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment on prisoners without violating strictures against torture. For an act of abuse to be torture, the interrogator must be inflicting pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death." The definition of illegal torture...