Sentences with phrase «harm by doing nothing»

While such a shift would be bold, Debas said, «you can also do harm by doing nothing.»

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Many people, when witnessing acts of violence upon others will stand by and do nothing for fear of being harmed themselves.

Disagreements are a natural byproduct of passionate takes on films, but nasty drive - by comments like these are doing nothing but harming cinema in the long run.

«By way of background, the basic idea behind the sin of omission, whether as featured in religious traditions or in its secular, metaphorical form, is that, just as it is wrong to do intentional harm, it is also sometimes wrong to do nothing — that is, it is wrong to fail to act or speak,» said Ryan.

The harm being done by Obama and Duncan, especially following on and learning nothing from Bush, can hardly be appreciated.

The bulk of my business revolved around private advertising and I was spotted by a few jealous individuals who had nothing to do with their weekends but to harm my business.

It just shows that even the «reliable» consumer credit reporting companies, who by law are supposed to furnish you with a free credit report each year are nothing but scam artists and crooks that only want your money and do not care who they harm.

Anything that could normally harm you ignores you or does nothing (even the giant spike pillars in the later airships get stopped dead by this power!)

As for Ubisoft, 2K and all the other publishers in the roster of E-xpress, you are the innocent party here who has nothing to do with this and YET you have been harmed by this action of E-xpress.

they are more guilty then the average folk in causing harm to the people of the world including the thrid world nations (spending trillions on bank bailouts, wars, etc), they have done nothing to mitgate their poverty, but have made it worse by their controls over the govs, and they have caused more harm by their instigating wars between nations funding both sides and frankly making a pure nusiance out of themselves so if you want to trust such people I feel sorry for you, they do not care about you.

Even if the ultimate elimination of DACA does not lead to imminent deportation, it would be a very troubling decision that harms good people who have done nothing wrong, and we are determined to do all we can to advocate for action that preserves the protections offered by DACA.

While many decry reforms like these — especially the one relating to banks — as nothing more than Washington, D.C., political game - playing and Wall Street favors, each in its own right highlights the larger problem with business method patents: instead of spurring innovation (as the patent system is intended to do), they often harm businesses by imposing additional costs (in the form of licenses or litigation), which in turn harms the consumer, as well as the economy at large.

«It is in fact the case that you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it's the music business or yourself doing the pimping... Nothing but harm will come in the long run, from allowing yourself to be exploited and it is absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women, for you to send across the message that you are to be valued (even by you) more for your sexual appeal than your obvious talent.»