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1 - Blood sports involve the infliction of suffering and death in the name of human entertainment.

2 - Psychology experiments show that people are surprisingly willing to inflict pain on others if an authority figure tells them to do it.

3 - It is to be hoped that Mr. Patten will use that tool sensitively in order that necessary development may inflict the least possible damage on our national resources of landscape and architectural beauty.

4 - Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime.

5 - Torture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain as a means of cruelty, intimidation, punishment, for the extraction of a confession or information or simply for the entertainment of the perpetrator.