Sentences with phrase «inflicted upon cities»

A few years later, Frederick II was excommunicated by the Council of Lyons, purportedly for the reign of massacre and terror that he had inflicted upon cities throughout Italy.

In the D.C. - area where I'm located, everything — politics; the suckitude of the Redskins, Wizards and Nationals; you name it — has taken a back seat to the record three feet of snow that the Snowpocalypse of 2010 has inflicted upon our city this week.

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Nadler relates in detail the gruesome punishment inflicted by the Amsterdam city council upon one of Spinoza's friends, the freethinking Adriaan Koerbagh, who had written a book intended to criticize, even mock, nearly all organized religion, including the Dutch Reformed variety.

So what chance do City have of becoming the first team this season to clinch maximum points at Old Trafford, thus inflicting a second successive defeat upon the Red Devils who suffered their first real setback of the season when going down 2 - 1 at Wolves last weekend.

Ian Holloway was handed his first master - class in how a Premiership fixture cane be won through astute tactics, with Blackpool's usually free - flowing football stopped in its tracks at St Andrews last weekend as Birmingham City inflicted Blackpool's fifth league defeat of the season upon them.

Then in December, Mr. Bharara formally joined a lawsuit, Nunez v. City of New York, brought by the Legal Aid Society to end «unnecessary and excessive force inflicted upon inmates.»

Maybe the Governor should focus on solutions that could actually have an impact, like banning the high - capacity magazines used to inflict horrific violence upon countless American cities, from Aurora to Newton.»

Belize City was the original capital of Belize, but when Hurricane Hattie inflicted significant damage upon Belize in 1961, the government decided that a coastal city was too risky a location for their capiCity was the original capital of Belize, but when Hurricane Hattie inflicted significant damage upon Belize in 1961, the government decided that a coastal city was too risky a location for their capicity was too risky a location for their capital.