Sentences with phrase «do public harm»

It's as old as industries that know their products do public harm, but lie to keep them in use.

Not exact matches

«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.

Of course, fear isn't rational — you don't see people giving toaster ovens the side - eye, and many other things that people are afraid of, including public speaking and spiders, are unlikely to harm you either.

Aside from the possibly embarrassing public heckling, does this kind of dialogue have the ability to harm important trade relations between the world's No. 2 and No. 3 economies and should India be worried?

With its ability to influence opinions, social media does remarkable harm by playing a role in the rigging of elections and public debate.

Sadly, the companies that have sued A * L are trying to censor information from ever reaching the public and as a result harm the financial community by doing so.»

Did major donors to BC Liberals reap favours harming the public interest?

In order not to do harm, whether it's with medicine or with public policy, the first order of business is accurate diagnostics.

And as the Salvation Army does not engage in harm reduction programs, such as needle exchanges or supervised injection, drug use, drug dealing, and alcohol consumption in public spaces can be expected to increase.

I know the House will recognise that we face a constantly evolving threat from terrorism and must respond accordingly to ensure the protection of the public against those who would do us harm.

The public did not support President Bill Clinton's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, but American casualties were few, the war ended in victory, and the conflict did Clinton no harm.

But it seems to me that we harm the cause of public debate and reason if we do not attend to what's at stake in Christian theology itself as we do so.

our praying at public meetings does NO harm to anyone...

Here the Pope says yes: «When it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality.»

Third, I fear that genetic counseling is doing great harm to the public standing of hospitals and the medical profession.

There is mounting evidence that beverage taxes cost jobs and harm local businesses but do nothing to move the needle on public health.

The Faculty of Public Health and a coalition of public health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord WPublic Health and a coalition of public health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord Wpublic health groups, including Sustain, are supporting a Lords amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, called the «Do No Harm» amendment, and tabled by Crossbench Peer Lord Warner.

I doubt they're likely to do her much harm, but they do show a good tool for taking the wind out of future Swift Boaters» sails: humor, something of which the 2004 public version of John Kerry was essentially incapable.

The British public, or at least the media that serve them, seem to only have enough attention span for one scandal at a time, and it will do no harm to the Murdoch empire to overshadow the Leveson Inquiry with another scandal.

Cleaning up Albany must be done in a way that restores the public's trust in state government and protects taxpayers from further harm.

«Ford's short - lived challenge to Gillibrand not only did her no harm, it may have even solidified her support among Democrats,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

The NY Post calls on Cuomo to «end his monkey business» in the form of repeated public spats with de Blasio, «before it does real harm.»

The backlash from the student fees debacle will still do him harm, as will the impact of local spending cuts and public sector job losses.

Michelle de la Uz — appointed to the City Planning Commission by de Blasio when he was public advocate, and reappointed by current Public Advocate Letitia James — has become one of the de Blasio administration's most ardent critics, often voting against the city's housing and development proposals because she believes they do more harm than good and that the housing is not at the levels of affordability it shoupublic advocate, and reappointed by current Public Advocate Letitia James — has become one of the de Blasio administration's most ardent critics, often voting against the city's housing and development proposals because she believes they do more harm than good and that the housing is not at the levels of affordability it shouPublic Advocate Letitia James — has become one of the de Blasio administration's most ardent critics, often voting against the city's housing and development proposals because she believes they do more harm than good and that the housing is not at the levels of affordability it should be.

Indeed, I suspect that the annual conferences are doing more harm than good, by reinforcing the public scepticism that our politicians are more interested in putting on a show than in tackling Britain's problems.

Our governor [will have done] more harm to public education than any other governor in the history of New York state.»

It doesn't matter if other programmes are misleading as long as they don't cause «harm or offence», and the regulator's interpretation of harm is so narrow that it effectively gives broadcasters a green light to mislead the public.

In a letter to the Guardian, the scientists wrote that «the ACMD clearly recommended — for the third time in the last six years — that cannabis remains a class C drug, and did so after examining all the available and latest evidence on short - and long - term health risks, as well as social harms, public attitudes and policing priorities.»

But so far, the journals haven't shown that public - access mandates have done them harm.

When you go through the science, yeah, it's a perfectly natural response to get absolutely angry at the terrible science that had been done and how the public health community took it and converted it into these messages that could do so much harm.

Why do they remain available to the public when one of the safest household chemicals is banned despite the fact that it is absolutely impossible to cause any reproductive harm with the approved use?

No matter the harm it ends up doing on his body and on their relationship, he feels that he is the only one out there that can put a stop to the government's actions or at least put the information out in the open for the public to view.

In this way, certification can actually harm the public's perception of teaching as a profession - the very opposite of what certification proponents wish to do.

The public — generally very supportive of teachers — does not understand union positions that over-protect the small number of teachers who are harming kids.

Nearly two decades later, I'm still chastened by the book's central lesson: A government policy developed by mostly benevolent leaders hoping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged — in this case, by razing old, low - income, ostensibly decaying neighborhoods in favor of gigantic public - housing skyscrapers — did incalculable harm to those it was designed to help.

After all, civic education may sound like a good idea in theory, but in practice public schools could even do harm in this realm.

Though it was a difficult and painful struggle internally, I felt like the public harm from doing nothing at all was unacceptable to the people of Illinois.

The researchers examined student achievement in traditional public schools that had charter schools nearby, and they found that the presence of the charter schools did not appear to help or harm student achievement in the traditional public schools.

Charter schools do not appear to help or harm student achievement in nearby traditional public schools.

While Illinois's finances certainly are in real trouble, issuing the largest public bond in history may do more harm than good.

Third, keeping primary - secondary education separate from the rest of the public sector now does more harm than good.

When you consider all the ways in which American public education harms the lives of children black and brown as well as denies them brighter futures, it is critical that reformers put as much energy into transforming the systems as some are doing in taking down Confederate statues in public parks.

That said, the test - based accountability policies of the past generation have done enormous harm to public schools and students, and we should stop testing every student in grades 3 - 8.

Contrary to the arguments of some, we find that school choice programs, such as Education Scholarship Accounts and Tax Credit Scholarships, do not harm public schools for the benefit of private schools.

Private schools and voucher expansion don't harm the public system like you assert.

Moreover, there's research showing that competition from charter schools helps improve — or at least does not harm — academic performance in traditional public schools.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

After six years, there is overwhelming evidence that the deeply flawed «No Child Left Behind» law (NCLB) is doing more harm than good in our nation's public schools.

«It masks the true cost of the voucher program expansion and the harm that expansion will do to public schools by «washing» the dollars through the aid formula for public schools» because lawmakers no longer must appropriate additional state dollars to fund voucher expansion because it comes from school district funding, he said.

Does private school competition harm public schools?