Sentences with phrase «history more harm than good»

If you open a credit account in a store you barely frequent, it will do your credit history more harm than good if you don't use the card regularly.

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Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a few other central banks — though surprisingly, only a few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that central banking may not be the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds.

Men who meant well did more harm to the reputation of the church in the eyes of history than any good that might have come of their actions.

But whether we style ourselves religious activists or quietists, the fundamental ecology of history is such that even our best acts or most patient waiting can produce more ultimate harm than good; the very best we can do is more good than harm.

As evidenced time and again throughout history, the Christian movement has done far more harm than good in its efforts to control to governmental activies of a nation.

In 2008, during a BBC One This Week interview between Abbott, Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil about who was history's worst dictator, Abbott said about the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong: «I suppose some people will judge that on balance Mao did more good than harm... He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now.»

«On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you don't have any calcified plaque, our estimations indicate that use of aspirin would result in more harm than good, even if you have risk factors for heart disease such as high cholesterol or a family history of the disease.»

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

In fact, a brief examination of history shows the removal of cats from ecosystems — something that is impossible to do in large terrains but has been done at great expense on a handful of small islands — can cause more harm than good to other species.

Others, like the one for kennel cough, have a history of causing more harm than good (dogs vaccinated for kennel cough are more likely to get the disease than those who are not vaccinated for it); others, like the one for corona virus, are given against a disease so rare that one vet termed this «a vaccine looking for a disease.»