Sentences with phrase «doing less harm»

The SRI industry uses a variety of excuses for why it generally continues to support fossil fuels, or to prefer natural gas over oil as a «better» option, but the primary rationale seems to be one of doing less harm or favoring financial return rather than being truly concerned about ecological or human welfare.

When values and upcycling set the agenda, when — rather than simply inching forward bit by bit toward doing less harm — companies set purposeful goals and seek continuous improvement in everything they do, good design creates more value.

It might make sense to take a small portion of the aerosol that would have been dumped into the troposphere by retired dirty coal plants, and inject that directly into the stratosphere where it will restore the lost cooling effect while (hopefully) doing less harm than the old stuff dumped into the lower atmosphere.

The Otis Sustainability Alliance, founded in 2013 by Brantley, brings together leaders from the creative fields of fashion, design, art, and higher education who are committed to advancing the environmental education to include doing less harm in their design profession.

The company is always striving to improve and to do less harm and more good.

After winning the first trick with the ace of spades, West continued the suit on the theory that it would do him less harm than any other.

Prometrium did less harm to HDL.13 PEPI Writing Group.

The body pushes toxins through the pores to the surface of the skin, where they do less harm systemically.

I feel a rush of satisfaction that my dollars that day will support a healthier world — and that every single meal is an opportunity to do less harm and more good (and, boy, do I love opportunities!)

We're going to allow bigger loans because the political and economic reality is that home values are on the ropes and keeping up loan limits does less harm than knocking them down and reducing local home sales.

It's like drugs; smoke marjuana in huge amounts and it's addictive and bad for you, but take it occasionally and in moderation and it does little harm, in fact it does less harm that alcohol.

Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources so that companies, govenrments, and organizations are more efficient, make more money, and do less harm to the environment.

In the coming year, buildings will no longer be considered green if they only do less harm.

If the «we'd like you to be more mature — can't say «older» as a requirement — or have at least 3 years of university» preference is because the schools want to graduate the prospective practitioners when they're older, on the assumption that they'll do less harm to the public that way — well, that's fair.

Not exact matches

Although there are some companies offering SEO services for less, they are often not specialized and can do more harm to your business than doing any good.

Tailored beauty ads are unlikely to do any harm (except perhaps to less digitally savvy lipstick manufacturers), but the idea that we may soon be living in information bubbles so finely crafted as to suit our very personalities and bombarded with political messages designed to push our specific buttons, has worrying implications for civic conversation.

It has less to do with future generations and more to do with how royalties are harming the Canadian economy today.

Articles with clickbait headlines are annoying, but they ultimately do far less harm than articles with straightforward headlines but inaccurate information in the story itself.

Interest increase should harm their earning as yes they are quite leveraged, but what I found in comparison that AEP is a bit less into debts then other Utilities so they should do better

I don't abuse (not intentionally, but I am blunt which can be seen as a less than stellar trait) because I don't wish to cause harm.

Answering these accusations with anything less than humility and grace only furthers the harm they have done.

You do a lot less harm than Muslim terrorists or the drug - driven gangs of Chicago and Baltimore.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

People need to focus less on being offended by what someone else believes (especially when it really does no harm except causing some offense) and be more secure in their own beliefs.

Sin did no real harm whatever in the universe, since the absolute perfection which the universe involves in its cause could never be more or less than absolute.

But today we need no longer fear that they will do much harm and make the laity less willing to abide by the decisions of the hierarchy.

Many Christians would do well to stop believing this, they might inflict less harm.

The less we depend on Nature for our subsistence, the less harm we do to her.»

Anger is indeed a powerful emotion that, left unchecked, can do considerable harm to the angry man himself no less than to the objects of his wrath.

Because they were concerned with their own impotence in good works and with the harm they were doing to others, they were not less altruistic than those who were concerned only with doing good, and inattentive to the evil consequences of many good works.

Still, as heresies go, the cosmic vending machine has done far less harm than the Cosmic Bully, IMO.

This story does Romney more harm than good — his religious affiliation should not be in the forefront — voters might feel less inclined to vote for him.

However, I don't think there is much harm in trying it with less, but just a little.

A lot of times it's what I recommend for folks if they are going to be eating less meat to not increase their dairy and if possible to decrease their dairy because it has just done so much harm for the animals and for the environment.

Another area where consumer preferences are re-shaping the packaged food industry is with their desire for foods that offer better nutrition; have less sugar; are organic; are «free - from» allergens and additives, including GMOs (and «free - from jargon» in clean labelling); are ethically sourced and produced; and do not harm the environment in any way, from growing or creating the ingredients through to producing the final product.

Totally agree and I must point out that, since realism is what our club has been without for the last decade, by some fans, the manager, board and «couldn't care less as long as I get richer» by the sick joke owner, I have always lived firmly in REALITY LAND and unlike those I list above, refuse to harm the club I love by pretending our weaknesses do not exist.

@strontium Since I always try to default to F1 and FIA people being pretty smart and pretty professional, once you remove all the negative armchair fan rhetoric that is, I would suggest that the reason the fins are just reduced and the t bars are gone but for a much smaller lower gearbox wing according to Lowe, is that going by what Brawn has talked about they don't want to make knee - jerk decisions that will only continue to help the bigger teams who have the resources to adapt more quickly, and harm the lesser teams that can not.

Basically magic is done through the use of jinn and there is also lesser degrees of «jinn harm» if u will.

Before that time, certainly you can use a high chair to separate your child from hurting another child or harming property, but they are much less capable of understanding that what they did had a consequence and you will be frustrated when they don't seem to «get it» even after many time outs.

I don't wish to suggest that women who stopped breastfeeding at six months, or didn't breastfeed are doing harm, or that they love their children less — that would be silly.

Too little salt does no harm but is less effective in preventing dehydration.

I personally have no problem with moms who use formula, I don't think less of them, I don't think they are inferior parents or that they are harming their children.

It can not possibly work while we spend money on criminalising people who are doing probably less harm to themselves than some of the people who go binge drinking.

Locking the publicly inebriated out of harm's way in drunk tanks till they sober up isn't going to make them less likely to do it again; in fact it's almost an endorsement.

This doesn't just harm the families caught in the chaos of President Trump's draconian policies — it's diametrically opposed to our values, and makes us less safe.

Suburban officials have previously said they do not support the grid option, fearing that it could harm their communities and the greater Syracuse area as a whole, with less traffic moving through the city's center.

«Working conditions are also poorer,» and less mechanization means more people are doing manual labor in harm's way.

Nor did the EPA show the best understanding of toxicology in urging BP in a directive to use dispersants with a «toxicity value less than» a certain cutoff: in toxicology, a chemical that produces harm at low concentrations, say, five parts per million, is more deadly than those that kill at 10 parts per million.

Over the years Haidt and his University of Virginia colleague Jesse Graham have surveyed the moral opinions of more than 110,000 people from dozens of countries and have found this consistent difference: self - reported liberals are high on 1 and 2 (harm / care and fairness / reciprocity) but are low on 3, 4 and 5 (ingroup / loyalty, authority / respect and purity / sanctity), whereas self - reported conservatives are roughly equal on all five dimensions, although they place slightly less emphasis on 1 and 2 than liberals do.

In the light of all these variables, it is hard to predict whether future hurricanes («typhoons» in the terminology used in parts of Asia) will do more or less harm than today.