Sentences with phrase «of substantial harm»

High probability of substantial harm to anyone will constitute an undue hardship.

(6) a warning of danger concerning the behavior of a person involved, when there is reason to believe that there exists the likelihood of substantial harm to an individual or to the public interest; and

The FDA notes that a medical device safety alert should be issued if a device may present an unreasonable risk of substantial harm.

There is certainly the possibility of substantial harm from AGW on the timescale of the 21st century

There is certainly the possibility of substantial harm from AGW on the timescale of the 21st century, although this is arguably not a global ruin problem.

The paper describes an effort to identify and propagate social and environmental projects that could reverse a centuries - long pattern in which human prosperity has come at the cost of substantial harm to ecosystems and excluded communities.

... Without a clear showing of substantial harm to the tangible interests of others, speculation or mere moral objections alone should not override the moral right of infertile couples to use those techniques to form families.

During the trial, Plaintiffs have presented evidence of the substantial harms imposed on students by California's permanent employment, dismissal, and seniority - based layoff laws.

Not exact matches

The group of businesses — which also includes Twitter, Uber, and SpaceX — said the new order would inflict «substantial harm on U.S. companies, their employees, and the entire country,» in a brief filed in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Second, there is a substantial body of economic evidence suggesting that taxation of the return to savings can harm the prospects for economic growth, investment and efficiency.

Also, there is no substantial law on who can claim what objects or resources in space, beyond the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that declared space open for most kinds of exploitation, so long as «states» clean up their mess, leaving no contamination or dangerous objects that could harm others.

The loss of a substantial number of our partners, our possible inability to replace them, or the failure to recruit additional partners could harm our results of operations.

The religious groups» reasons — that only they can identify a substantial burden on their exercise of religion and that the government needs to exempt the insurers of conscientious objectors along with churches and their auxiliaries — actually harm religious liberty, he argued.

certainly does do for those of us who take the program seriously is to call attention to our «sinful» characteristics, behavior, harms, and wrongs — things that most assuredly need substantial change and correction.

But occasionally, you get individuals with defects (such as sociopaths), who act completely for their own good, do substantial harm to the community, and are eventually neutralized by the rest of the population.

He questioned the view that we need not be concerned with heavy concentration, instead preferring «standard economic wisdom» that «mergers resulting in high levels of concentration in markets with substantial barriers to entry will usually reduce competition and cause harm to consumers and our economy.»

FI project aims to improve safeguarding in four EU countries through better engagement with fathers Serious Case Review summaries across the world (plus a substantial body of research) reveal that family professionals working with children at risk of harm commonly fail to engage well with men in families where there are safeguarding concerns.

Serious Case Review summaries across the world (plus a substantial body of research) reveal that family professionals working with children at risk of harm commonly fail to engage well with men in families where there are safeguarding concerns.

There are a few exceptions: If you're in the highest paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your manager can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization, you can be denied «restoration,» which is the guarantee that you can return to the same or an equivalent job.

There are a few exceptions: Your employer isn't required to keep your job open for you if you're in the highest - paid 10 percent of wage earners at your company and your employer can show that your absence would cause substantial economic harm to the organization.

The bill would also require claimants to show substantial harm, corporate bodies to show financial loss and encourage the speedy settlement of disputes without recourse to costly litigation.

Most significantly, the notion that most forms of information could only be withheld on the grounds that «substantial harm» would be caused was removed.

That's because, since the process started, the threshold for seeking secrecy protection went from a «reasonable probability» to «substantial likelihood» that donors would suffer some sort of harm or threat if their identities were known.

«The law is «clear and convincing evidence» that disclosure of a source would cause a substantial likelihood of harm,» said Commissioner David Renzi.

Re-examination of data from four large studies of the benefits and harms of mammography screening shows that the benefits are more consistent across these studies than previously understood and that all the studies indicate a substantial reduction in breast cancer mortality with screening, according to results presented at the 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 10 - 14.

An FDA review committee acknowledged problems, but said evidence of harm was not «consistent» or «substantial.»

Given the lack of mortality benefit of screening, and the moderate to substantial harms that could result from false - positive screeningtest results and subsequent surgery, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for ovarian cancer outweigh the benefit, and the net balance of the benefit and harms of screening is negative.

«Across all countries a substantial number of people who inject drugs are living with HIV or HCV and are exposed to multiple adverse risk environments that increase health harms,» says UNSW's Professor Louisa Degenhardt, lead author of the paper reviewing prevalence of injecting drug use and HIV and Hepatitis in this population.

The lack of an optimal management strategy has led to substantial variation in the care for this vulnerable population, unnecessarily exposing many infants to potential harm.

The proposals, unveiled yesterday by U.K. Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, include conferring more protection on statements dealing with matters of «public interest» and requiring that a statement must cause «substantial harm» before it becomes defamatory.

The findings «highlight the urgency of educating the public, policymakers and health care professionals about high - risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, destigmatizing these conditions, and encouraging those who can not reduce their alcohol consumption on their own — despite substantial harm to themselves and others — to seek treatment,» Grant and her colleagues concluded.

An FDA review committee acknowledged problems, but said evidence of harm was not «consistent» or «substantial.»

If you Post (as defined below in Section 7) or otherwise send spam, advertising, or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the Tubi Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to Tubi and that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to measure.

And in New Orleans, a substantial group of African - American voters believed that the financial harm done by firing thousands of teachers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 undermined the economic base of the black community, hurting students more than the school improvements helped them.

According to the Court, the laws in question — laws that govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs — impose substantial harm on California's students by forcing administrators to push passionate, inspiring teachers out of the school system and keep grossly ineffective teachers in front of students year after year.

Morath said the state takeover was necessary «to prevent substantial or imminent harm to the welfare of the district's students or to the public interest.»

Revises current law regarding refusal of entry to or ejection from a school to allow a school administrator, school resource office or school district peace officer to refuse to allow a person on property or to eject a person if the person refuses to leave on request and to implement such a ban for up to two years, if the person poses a substantial risk of harm to another person or behaves in a manner inappropriate for a school setting after being warned.

I thought that the major firms were not only unethical, but I also thought that they overcharged for wealth - destroying products, had immense conflicts of interests, and their methods would (and could) eventually cause substantial harm to the overall economy.

Between 2007 and 2008, US EPA noted a substantial increase of reported harm to pets from the use of spot - on flea and tick control products.

(g) A person who intentionally violates subdivision 1 or 7 where the violation results in substantial bodily harm to a pet or companion animal, and the act is done to threaten, intimidate, or terrorize another person, may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than two years or to payment of a fine of not more than $ 5,000, or both.

Goddard's Law makes it a fifth degree felony to knowingly cause serious physical harm to a companion animal, which is defined as activities involving a substantial risk of death, a partial or permanent incapacity, long - term pain, or deprivation of food, water and shelter.

«Substantial bodily harm» means bodily injury which involves a temporary but substantial disfigurement, or which causes a temporary but substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or which causes a fracture of any bodily member to a service animal or a pet or companSubstantial bodily harm» means bodily injury which involves a temporary but substantial disfigurement, or which causes a temporary but substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or which causes a fracture of any bodily member to a service animal or a pet or compansubstantial disfigurement, or which causes a temporary but substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or which causes a fracture of any bodily member to a service animal or a pet or compansubstantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or which causes a fracture of any bodily member to a service animal or a pet or companion animal.

«Crytek has not been compensated for Defendants» unlicensed use of Crytek technology in the Squadron 42 game, and has been substantially harmed by being deprived of that compensation, which would ordinarily include a substantial up - front payment as well as a substantial royalty on game sales,» plaintiffs argue.

The lawsuit also states that» [CIG] utterly failed to follow through on those promises, and thier actions and omissions constitute breaches of contract and copyright infringement and have caused substantial harm to Crytek.»

I've been reading his blog — very interesting stuff — and he seems to at least acknowledge the possibility of very substantial harms:

Considering the harm done by the burning of fossil fuels and the relative ease of replacing a substantial amount of fossil fuel burning with renewable energy, the knowingly dishonest support of fossil fuels and denigration of renewable energy by people in positions of power and / or responsibility is rightly a crime because it is certainly a grave offence against morality.

-- We can't be certain that atmospheric CO2 is really going to cause any substantial harm, but we can be reasonably sure that anything that raises the price of energy (e.g. mitigation, that is reducing emissions at the source) will impact improvements in lifestyle that most of the world wants.

Some believe that the case has been made that human released CO2 will produce substantial net harms for humanity, and that warrants a series of costly actions that will reportedly mitigate these feared harms to a sufficient degree to be worth the cost to those paying for the actions.

Then - president Derek Bok said it was out of a desire not to be associated with «companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to human health.»

When competent medical testimony establishes that medical monitoring is necessary to detect the potential onset of a serious illness or disease due to physiological changes indicating a substantial increase in risk of harm from exposure to a known hazardous substance, the element of injury and damage will have been satisfied and the cost of that monitoring is recoverable in tort.