"inflict" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Procrastination also inflicts major costs on businesses and governments.
- According to the same study, even though digital piracy inflicts additional costs on the production side of media, it also offers the main access to media goods in developing countries.
- For more than a decade, New York's real estate markets, housing policies and welfare rules have conspired to manufacture homeless families, thereby inflicting immense social and financial costs.
- Legal drugs would inflict new costs in terms of health care and lost productivity, not to mention broken lives.
- Desirable as those results would be, the air and ground campaign required to achieve them would inflict unacceptably high costs on the Iraqi people, Mideast regional stability and American troops.
- The research group asserted that the agency had inflicted "staggering costs upon the American consumers" by delaying for years before permitting new services like cellular telephones or satellite-delivered radio broadcasting services.
- But childhood cancer, even when its young victims are cured, can inflict wrenching costs on children and their families, whether its toll is measured in financial, emotional or physical terms.
- "I do believe these sanctions can inflict such costs."
- The group said the forests of the tropical world are disappearing at a rate of about 27 million acres a year, inflicting severe economic, social and enviromental costs on 56 developing countries.
- By holding the line against such odds, the black miners demonstrated that if they cannot yet shape a settlement, they can inflict great costs.
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