Sentences with phrase «actual harm done to»

No foul called here, so no actual harm done to anything other than the argument that CP3 is not an epic flop artist.

Not exact matches

But substantive debates on actual issues - or even the occasional bickering disagreement about the best route to grandma's - won't do your child any harm.

What can be said with certainty is that the fear of intermarriage, erected as a barrier to social fellowship, does harm and thwarts constructive effort far in excess of the actual justification of such a fear.

When anybody is in a job that has come to feel unbearable, and they are not happy, and they KNOW that if they keep doing that job, it is going to harm there actual physical health - they do the right thing by leaving that job.

* the actual quote is «Yes I do (expect to sign a defender before the season starts)» ** See the self - harm I commit in the name of getting you stories?

Researchers concluded that the conventional dogma, which advises avoiding the sun at all costs and slathering on sunscreen to minimize sun exposure, is doing more harm than actual good.

If a new report truly is a false statement of fact that causes harm to someone's reputation, and if the news reporter has no actual factual basis for the factual claim, the First Amendment does permit the courts to impose both civil and criminal liability for the false statements, with civil suits brought by someone who is harmed and criminal liability enforced by the government.

The particular harm is that underlying «trend factors» built in to projections on year - to - year spending changes become a self - fulfilling base from which the discussion on the budget begins... for example, a change from $ 9 billion to $ 12 billion in actual proposed spending on a program area doesn't become the focus, if the «projected out - year» for that program had its expected growth going to $ 13.5 billion — instead of anaylyzing why there is 33 percent growth in that program, the interest groups and journalists cover that as a «cut» of $ 1.5 billion.

The audit finds that, in the vast majority of cases where a violation occurred, the department did not issue any fines at all, and only tried to impose monetary policies when the problem resulted in actual harm to a patient or placed the patients in immediate jeopardy.

Bad remakes do no actual harm to their models: Philip Kaufman's flat 1978 adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers only replenishes my appreciation for Don Siegel's 1956 original, and Abel Ferrara's abysmal 1993 version makes Siegel's look like the fruit of genius.

It's evolved from focusing on the avoidance of doing harm to the actual pursuit of good.

I wonder if social media has emboldened journalists to share their actual opinions more frequently and whether that will do more harm than good to our profession in the long run.

Seems to me many people who have little knowledge of climate science or substantive knowledge of actual impacts of warming (like the medical doctors worried about asthma) adopt as a default position to «do no harm»... IOW no matter the plausibility of the claimed harm, better to take whatever steps are suggested than to be possibly responsible for harm.

It's striking in this context to recall that, only 20 years ago, the phrase «Science Wars» was used in relation to generally leftish postmodernists in the humanities, who were seen as rejecting science and / or promoting pseudoscience (while some of this stuff was rather silly, there's no evidence that it ever did any actual harm to science).

«With the private right of action, the really, really dangerous aspect of it is that it allowed for the combination of individual actions into class actions with extraordinarily high penalties that had nothing to do with actual harm.

The defence of self - defence did not apply, as there was no evidence of actual or threatened harm, the amount of force was not necessary or proportionate to the threat, and the contact was not trivial.

Her natural - law point of view (whatever western society has traditionally done for the past couple of centuries is right — I exaggerate a little) leads her to oppose same - sex marriage and various other social positions that she has no actual evidence to show are harmful, while ignoring a lot of the harm done by existing practices.

When we point out that the burden really lies upon those who would toss aside centuries of history on short - term, flimsy evidence, who ignore the actual evidence of heavy consolidations with more to follow, who would saddle us with a change that would be irreversible regardless of how much harm it later engendered, who would risk so much of what the legal profession has stood for, who refuse to work anywhere near as hard on real solutions to real problems as they do on this pig - in - a-poke, then we are met with silence or insults.

In the case of an assault, for example, you do not need to show that a person's action caused you actual physical harm, but only that you expected some harm to come to you.

In addition, the communication does not have to cause actual harm — it merely must be capable of of calling into question the employee's good name or reputation.

«Endangers» «Endangers» refers to exposing someone to danger, harm or risk but does not connote actual injury or damage.

Furthermore, the court ruled the evidence presented did not establish the city had actual or constructive knowledge that the trail presented an unreasonable risk of harm to the rider.

(1) Recognition or enforcement of a judgment may be refused if, and to the extent that, the judgment awards damages, including exemplary or punitive damages, that do not compensate a party for actual loss or harm suffered.

Time and time again we're moving forward in where we're looking and the checks that we're doing and the services we're providing to look for bad actors, but we're just not seeing any actual harm.