By forcing share prices up, the monetary authority hopes to inflict losses on the short sellers and thereby persuade them to mend their ways.

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Since then the terrorist attacks on civilians across Russia have only worsened and the rebels have continued to inflict losses on federal forces in Chechnya.

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Under the deal clinched in Brussels early Monday, Cyprus agreed to slash its oversized banking sector and inflict hefty losses on large Laiki and Bank of Cyprus depositors.

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