Sentences with phrase «humiliation inflicted»

Equally, it would be preposterous to suggest that the humiliations inflicted on the growing number living in poverty — perhaps the ugliest feature of contemporary British capitalism — are welcomed by the victims, or that the marketization of the health service is welcome to its users or to the dedicated professionals who work in it.

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«Once «the religious hypothesis» is disengaged from the opportunity to inflict humiliation and pain on people who do not profess the correct creed, it loses interest for many people.»
Thus it is able to inflict the day's final humiliations on the golfer, leaving him broken and bewildered, conquered once more by an unconquerable game.
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Children may comply when they fear you or when they want you to stop inflicting pain or humiliation.
After the obliteration inflicted on Labour in the county council elections, the party is braced for more and quite probably worse humiliation tonight when we get the results of the Euro elections.
David's exceptionally harsh letter and its public release by the governor's office seemed designed to inflict the greatest possible humiliation of Vance, perhaps signaling a feud on par with Cuomo's crusade against Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Yet instead of contemplating a killing of his own, Dennis goes to work for this pitiless scumbag, discovering along the way he has a talent for inflicting the same humiliations he himself has suffered.
The late reversal of humiliation in Melissa K. Stack's screenplay does little to assuage the abundance of embarrassment inflicted upon the women.
Learning institutions can help people understand that movement toward equal dignity may coincide with people becoming highly conscious of indignities — humiliationsinflicted either intentionally by direct mistreatment, or unwittingly through outdated practices, or systemically through obsolete social frames.
The space, tarred and feathered from top to bottom, becomes a stand - in for the body on which pain and humiliation is inflicted by the vernacular mob tradition.
It doesn't quite live up to the promise, but it's well worth it for the spectacle of Caroline Lucas, Zac Goldsmith, John Sauven, Franny Armstrong et al being lined up Weakest - Link - style for self - inflicted humiliation.
However, they cite «humiliation or contempt» (pp. 227 - 228) as the types of abuse responsible for inflicting the most psychological damage in children and the antecedent of most disruptive behaviors.
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