Sentences with phrase «less harmful»

In his opinion, a change of custody of the children would be less harmful to them than the continued alienation....

The collaborative law process is a less harmful alternative to litigated divorce.

In a letter distributed to all divorce litigants, the Supervising Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court Family Law Departments points out that mediation is cheaper, faster, less stressful, and less harmful to children and relationships than going to court.

In discussing the benefits of Collaborative Divorce, we often talk about how it will help save your relationship with your spouse, cause you less stress and anxiety, be less harmful to the kids, and usually costs less than «old school» litigation.

This made their conflicts much more productive and less harmful.

Counter evidence: Are the effects less harmful when parents are less educated?

Months quicker & less harmful to your family than court.

Rather than promoting nonmonogamy, which clearly would be upsetting to many people because of the deception, wouldn't it be less harmful to relationships if we became serial monogamists — marrying two, three or four times as our sexual needs change as we age?

Yet why is depiction of extreme violence without a sexual context deemed less harmful than violence in a sexual context?

Pfizer's patent as a whole «stated that the compounds are useful as anti-inflammatory agents with the additional benefit of having significantly less harmful side effects».

Booker suggests that the brightest legal brains in the land have issued a «woolly judgment» that blurs a crucial distinction between blue and brown asbestos with the significantly less harmful white asbestos.

However, this does not mean that these injuries are any less harmful to you.

This does not mean that these injuries are any less harmful or any less important.

Today, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed that harassment in the workplace is no less harmful if it comes from co-workers or independent contractors instead of from a boss.

Although the Court in Oakes dealt with a similar constitutional issue in 1986, there were no indication that less harmful means could achieve the same goal here.

At the end of the book, I have the chance to present my ideas for reforms to make the government less harmful to markets.

In assessing the minimal impairment of the AEPA under s. 1, she noted that a less harmful outcome could be achieved by considering the size of the farm involved (paras. 355 - 358).

We know quite well where these endangered animals dwell and there are in fact several regions where construction is less harmful than in others.»

But, as a non-polluting energy source, wind energy is one of the most environmentally benign ways to generate electricity and is far less harmful to wildlife than energy sources it displaces — including to birds, and their critical habitats.

Its Créer Vert label uses popular eco-friendly materials, including organic cotton, hemp and lyocell fibre to produce garments that are less harmful to ecosystems.

Well - managed organic dairy farms are less harmful to the environment than conventional dairies, and there is evidence that the milk they produce may be better for our health.

This food system transition is already starting to happen, as consumers begin to ask more questions about the consequences, both direct and indirect, of their choices of foods, and as producers begin to focus on practices that are less harmful to the environment, but we've got a long way to go to get there.

Maybe someday we'll find some limits, but so far history has shown that we can constantly make and invent a more convivial, greener, less polluting, less harmful version of technology.

If a product used a harmful chemical when a less harmful substitute could have been found, a company might find their product banned, just as it was ready to hit the market!

Her Niche emphasized that they take special care to try to use less harmful materials.

If we're stuck with coal power plants, capture and storage technology makes the electricity generator a bit less harmful to the environment.

Moreover, energy from oil and gas drilling is much less harmful to the environment — especially given the high usage of water, the unbearable flow of life - killing nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico, and of course the negative impacts on gasoline and diesel engines from the added ethanol (and the lower miles per gallon it delivers).

The scientific consensus is that pollution controls enacted through the Clean Air Act Amendments in the 1990s and other measures have helped decrease the acidity of rain by approximately 60 percent to less harmful levels, as reflected in data gathered nationwide and by UD researchers in Lewes, Del., as part of a longstanding study.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

And you still haven't answered the question as to what is the ideal climate, how does it differ from today's climate, who determined the ideal climate, what factors were evaluated in making the determination, what evidence confirms that the controls on anthropogenic CO2 proposed by the climate experts would indeed establish and maintain the optimum climate, and whether the the political, economic, and social changes that would be required to do the controlling would on balance be less harmful than the effects of the postulated (but unsubstantiated) climate changes.

This is particularly true because if the consensus view is wrong about the magnitude and timing of climate change it could be wrong in both directions, that is, climate change impacts could be much worse and more rapid than the impacts identified by IPCC and the US Academy of Sciences even if they also could be less harmful in regard to timing and magnitude.

«To put it bluntly, climate change and its likely impact are proving slower and less harmful than we feared, while decarbonization of the economy is proving more painful and costly than we hoped,» they write.

A carbon tax, too, would be totally useless for emission reduction but less harmful than what is being done.

«The question is whether we're actually producing less harmful chemicals or just different chemicals.»

Lights meeting Title 24 standards were installed for all fixtures, and all products used to clean the office were replaced with less harmful green cleaners and soaps.

Not that technology will «allow unlimited growth» but that technology will reduce the demand for energy (LED versus candescent is a good example) and technology will allow for cleaner, less harmful energy production.

At the same time, sunlight is gradually breaking CFC molecules into less harmful substances.

But there are three other major energy options that need to be considered to help fill this need for non-fossil energy by 2050, one or all of which may end up being more cost effective and thus less harmful to global economic growth: nuclear fission (chapter 7), fusion (chapter 8), and solar power collected in space rather than on Earth's surface (chapter 9).

Butsic: There's a growing body of evidence that prescribed fires are less harmful to humans than non-managed wildfires, because they burn at lower severity, typically.

As with CO2, they are finding better ways that are less harmful.

Once the radiation limits begin to be increased this should have a catalytic effect on reducing emissions: 1) it will mean radiation leaks are understood to be less dangerous that currently thought > less people evacuated from effected zones > reduced cost accident of accidents — reduced accident insurance cost; 2) population takes another look at the effects of radiation > gains an understanding it is much less harmful than they thought > fear subsides > less opposition > easier and less expensive to find sites supported by the people nearby > planning and sight approval costs come down over time

A recent example of this need for «good» science to be acceptable to the public was when a Chairman of a Scientific Advisory Committee was sacked because he persisted in saying the use of canabis is less harmful than the public thinks it is.

SciDev.Net: Efforts to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of powerful greenhouse gases mainly used as refrigerants, may depend on developing nations being able to leapfrog these chemicals to less harmful alternatives, an environmental group has warned.

Then they re-painted the building's interior with low - VOC paints, which are more cost - effective and less harmful to human and environmental health.

It means far less harmful carbon pollution will be emitted in the coming years.

So stowing skepticism to the side in the name of making natural, less harmful, products more accessible, hats off to Walgreens on the launch of their private label line, Ology, being billed by the company as the first nationally accessible and affordable brand formulated to be free of toxic formulations.

But perhaps someday soon, your new Ford vehicle may include some of this agricultural waste in the form of bioplastic, which is a less harmful material than petroleum - based plastics.

* In soil, hydrazines may stick to particles and be changed within a few days to less harmful compounds.

H&M is trying to explore different methods to make its processes and its products less harmful and damaging.

Japan's disaster would weigh more heavily if there were less harmful alternatives.