Synonyms for inflicting
in·flict·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "inflicting":

   causing, imposing

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1. United States:

   The administration is arguing that by inflicting this harm, on children and parents, this stress, they're sending a message, a deterrent message, for people not to seek asylum in the United States, what they're doing is making it very difficult for people seeking asylum to actually cross at the legal border points.

2. Joe Biden:

   Putin is inflicting appalling, appalling devastation and horror on Ukraine, bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals. I mean, it's God awful, the world is united in our support for Ukraine and our determination to make Putin pay a very heavy price.

3. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn:

   As keen as we are, we are not prepared to risk inflicting the disaster of no-deal on our communities.

4. Keir Giles:

   It's going to be painful to deliberate, unless it becomes possible for Western aid, both military and humanitarian, to be absorbed in Ukraine at sufficient rates that they can genuinely turn the tide against the Russian advancement, if it's a question of who can pour in the greater resources and take the greater pain in order to prevail, Russia has a track record for inflicting substantial economic damage on itself and suffering on its own population, in order to prosecute wars.

5. Ian Allinson:

   It's just scandalous that the government is choosing to not do something effective to support ordinary people but is happy to leave those mega profits for the companies that are inflicting this on us.