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Lockdown restrictions during February, March, and April brought travel within China to a halt, inflicting a hefty toll on the country’s domestic travel industry.

It is also memories like these that make it easier to write scenes of inflicting pain upon male perpetrators.

The implication is that she might even have assisted her husband inflicting his superficial wounds.

So far, neither America nor Europe has shown much disposition to bear the inevitable costs of inflicting pain on Russia.

Gómez and Barros have been charged with forced slavery, inflicting bodily harm on a child and false imprisonment.

The Army wants a handheld directed-energy weapon that is capable of both inflicting pain or using lethal force.

Heavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.

It was a disappointment to the Americans who had looked forward to inflicting a decisive and crushing defeat on the enemy.

The knife had slipped, and only cut the flesh, without inflicting a serious wound on the clever Indian.

They directed the master of the house to keep a “palmer,” or instrument for inflicting pain upon the palm of the open hand.

There have been cases where men seem to have delighted in inflicting injuries or death upon fellow creatures from pure malice.