Defense gave him a chance to inflict punishment instead of absorb it.
She would inflict strong punishment for a moral slip, whether legal or not.
And this is a cause to celebrate enlightenment, not to inflict punishment.
Such weapons don't have to be anywhere near the enemy to inflict terrible punishment.
He simply allowed Henry to do homage without inflicting further punishment.
Very much the same thing happened also some years later, on the one time when Amphitryon beat me, in an effort to inflict punishment.
Even under these conditions, many people choose to inflict punishment if they see the deal as unfair to the recipient.
My father would have recoiled from the idea of using magic to inflict punishment.
He can't inflict punishment because too much was inflicted on him.
He was also noted for inflicting corporal punishments on such workers.