Sentences with phrase «harm done to people»

Once the case reached the country's highest tribunal, the Supreme Court explained that the intent of the Criminal Code provision, introduced in Parliament in 1994, is to alleviate the higher rate of incarceration for Indigenous offenders and to implement restorative justice — an approach that views crime as harm done to people and that seeks to rehabilitate offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community.

A typical criminal will commit 140 crimes a year and that costs from # 100 to # 380,000 and that is not accounting for the harm done to people... My slogan was Make Prison Work.

I believe the harm done to people in churches the world over is the natural result of men and women assuming positions God never intended in a system made by men and not by Christ.

Injury: Harm done to a person's physical or mental well - being; harm to one's pride or reputation; harm to one's rights and privileges.

You'll also be held liable for bodily injury and physical harm done to persons on your property, too.

Not exact matches

Alcohol and cigarettes, which also «hook» people, destroy health and lives, and cause death and harm to those who don't use them (second - hand smoke, drunk driving, abused families) are legal, billion - dollar industries, and these drugs are available and consumed everywhere.

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.

This person probably doesn't mean to harm you.

«As a company, we were too idealistic and optimistic and didn't focus enough on preventing abuse or thinking through how people could use the tools our platform provides to do harm,» Facebook said in a statement to Entrepreneur.

«A lot of times an employer does not do a pre-employment background check to simply weed out people that can cause the company harm,» Ramos says.

The question is if people buy into the idea that (1) smartphones really do harm their ability to take in the world (or, at least, are more «harmful» than «entertaining»), and (2) that they don't have the willpower to keep their noses out of their notifications, and thus need a phone that is designed to preempt most apps altogether.

And certainly sitting on a South Pacific beach isn't going to do your happiness levels any harm, but according to recent research we've posted on previously, people are actually pretty bad at guessing which recollections will bring them the most joy.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

When the Congressional Budget Office reported that the AHCA stood to strip 24 million people of their health insurance, Congressional Republicans divided into two camps — those who disliked the bill for fear that it would harm their constituents (not to mention their own electoral prospects) and those who did not feel that the bill went far enough in rolling back the «socialism» of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

But according to happiness expert and author Christine Carter there's a more fundamental problem with adjusting your behavior to please others — not only does it harm you, but science shows that other people don't actually like it much either.

People who are born without the ability to feel pain are miserable, because they don't know when they're harming themselves.

In 1955, Scientific American asked the question, somewhat sneeringly, about why so many people were «violently against» the process of fluoridating municipal water — a process that, according to the mandarins of science, was clearly shown to prevent tooth decay and do no harm.

Smart people are willing to try new things, knowing that if what they try at first doesn't work out as they had hoped, it is no harm, no foul.

We need to build confidence to show people that mining can be done without harming the environment.

Republicans say new laws won't necessarily keep weapons out of the hands of people intent on doing harm, and are keen to avoid twinning the two issues.

In the memo, he argued that Facebook believes its mission of connecting people is so important that anything it does in support of it is» * de facto * good» — even if it allows some to do true, even catastrophic, harm to others.

Some people claim that too much domain experience can actually harm you because you become cynical of all the things that can't be done — you've got the scars to prove it.

Based on that fact and that he «did not make any threats of harm to him or others,» the report said, Barela advised that it was unnecessary to invoke a Florida law allowing police to put a mentally ill person in custody.

People walking to shops and storefronts do not fit on the sidewalk, and are forced into harm's way.

While the misuse and exploitation of information people share with companies does not constitute the type of «breach» or theft discussed in the previous chapter on security (because the information was not technically stolen), the potential for harm to individuals and to vulnerable categories of people is nonetheless very real.

If we look hard enough, he argues, we can find a reason to feel grateful for any relationship — even when someone does us harm, as that person helps us appreciate our own vulnerability.

Jeffries: In Patrisse Cullors» memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, she says the narrative around accountability is that harm to Black people is our own doing, whereas harm to White people results in a collective sympathy.

Many people don't understand that compared to any number of other daily hazards, nuclear power has harmed very few.

«But it's clear now we didn't do enough — focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well, and that goes for fake news, foreign interference and hate speech, in addition to application developers and data privacy.»

«We didn't focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well, and that goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, hate speech, in addition to developers and data privacy.»

How do you prevent these people from doing harm to other users of your marketplace?

«Their only gripe is about people having religious beliefs period, which legally does nothing to harm them»

@Chad «Should society allow people to do whatever they want (as long as it's not «harming» someone else)?»

It does not mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.

Of those, God told one to steal a car and go to Minnesota to receive divine blessings (stopped by police on the way); another was «told» to spend all her money on a plane ticket as there was a grant waiting for her in another state to go to college with (there wasn't, and she had to call relatives to rescue her); another was told to cut himself; another was told to harm people (but only avoided doing this because he called police and was put inpatient).

«Should society allow people to do whatever they want (as long as it's not «harming» someone else)?»

I would prefer that people leave it at this, «What two consenting adults do with one another that doesn't cause physical or financial harm to others, should be legal and they should be left alone.»

People like «Free Thinker» do more harm than good to their cause (I guess you'd call it that).

Or if we don't believe, we want to continue to be good people who want to do some good on this earth while we're here, or at least avoid harming others.

But no harm is done by teaching kids that some people used to think there was a tooth fairy but most of them eventually figured out that it was really their parents.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

Muslims have done way too much harm to our country and our people... and continue to do so.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

Why are criminals running a criminal organization that we KNOW harms lots of innocent people, get to continue doing all that?

«When people are thinking in terms of rules, they think once a rule is broken, the harm is done, so it's very difficult to undo that, the stain remains,» Cornelissen told LiveScience.

When are we going to stop telling other people how to live if a particular lifestyle does not harm anyone?

Are you saying that your religion doesn't focus on preventing people from harming others and establishing ideals to personally live by?

Do the best you can, help out when you can, try to bring no harm to people.

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These horrible tragedies happen because people will not quit sinning and seeking to do evil, so it brings harm to others.