Sentences with phrase «prevent harm to others»

If a driver does not exhibit reasonable care to prevent harm to others on the road, they will have breached the duty of reasonable care.

In fact, this is a driving cause for medical malpractice victims and their families: to leave a legacy that changes the way medicine is practiced to prevent harm to others.

Drivers must actively try to prevent harm to others while they are on the road.

We understand that those who lose a loved one to negligence want accountability and seek to prevent harm to others by standing up for the memory of their family member.

The use of force is legally permitted to prevent harm to others and to the property of others under some circumstances.

That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

This post reviews the Cancun outcome through an ethical lens in light of the overall responsibility of those nations that are exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions in regard to their duties: (a) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels necessary to prevent harm to others, (b) to reduce greenhouse gas emission to levels consistent with what is each nation's fair share of total global emissions, and (c) to provide financing for adaptation measures and other necessary responses to climate change harms for those who are most vulnerable and least responsible for climate change.

By taking time to understand your liability as a dog owner, you will lessen your risks from a potential lawsuit, and hopefully prevent harm to others.

At first glance, this answer is scandalous in a liberal culture, which promises freedom for freedom's sake, limited only by external considerations of public utility and to prevent harm to others.

Responsible earthlings, such as Arthur, do attempt to intervene when they are able, and within reason, to prevent harm to others.

After your cat recovers, call your poison control center or humane society to let them know what happened, so they can track problem poisons and help prevent harm to other animals.

The term «Duty of Care» refers to the responsibility that we all have to take action to prevent harm to other people around us.

Not exact matches

Were the United States to impose significant trade restrictions and were other countries to respond in kind, as they surely would, the domestic economy's competitive edge would not be sufficient to prevent serious harm to the country's exports.

The Risk Protection Order is intended to temporarily prevent individuals who are considered to be at high risk of harming themselves or others from accessing firearms or ammunition.

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

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

If it were an accident, the first time it caused rashes and or nose bleeds and diarrhea, they would have written what caused it in my Medical Records to stop others from causing the adverse reactions, but no, they have to try to prevent a Law Suit and write that I am delusional about the adverse reactions so every Doctor after that forced the adverse reactions on me and or refused to give me the Medical Treatment actually need, while they make money off charging the government for the Toxic Harmful Drugs that a Judge ordered them not to give me, tut they just falsely called me delusional about the Court Orders, to made money poisoning me with Toxic Drugs and Rash Creams, but normally they do that to their suspecting Victims to make money off doing Kidney transplants like they did to my Uncle, but they will not replace mine, because that is what they planned to do to kill me, just ask their associate assassin Dr Kanter of the Minneapolis VA, of course he will say I am delusional after he assaulted me saying the other Hospital Labs were wrong about that Blood Test that show the harm they caused.

Still, when the physical therapist tells me I shouldn't make certain movements and I should work on other exercises, they're not being insensitive, but trying to help the healing and preventing me from further harm.

In addition, CPSC and the FDA are unaware of any scientific studies demonstrating that infant positioners prevent SIDS or are proven to prevent suffocation or other life - threatening harm.

«The Governor is evaluating all options, including legislation, the state's authority to review coastal consistency, and other legal challenges to prevent the egregious environmental and economic harm the federal government's proposal would cause.»

State Lawmakers Announce 30 - State Push for Commonsense Laws to Prevent Individuals Likely to Harm Themselves or Others from Accessing Guns

The bill (A. 6994, Kavanagh) would enact a court process to allow a judge to issue an order to prevent individuals found likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to themselves or others from having access to guns.

He said there are examples where people have worried that a relative might do harm to themselves and others, but the police were unable to do anything to prevent it.

Recall that the Economic Community Of West African State, ECOWAS, Court of Justice had in December 2012 ordered the government to hold oil companies and other perpetrators of the environmental damage accountable, ensure reparation for the collective harm done to the communities; restore within the shortest possible time the environment of the Niger Delta; and prevent the occurrence of damage to the environment.

The joint committee on human rights was similarly critical, demanding that the bill be amended «so that reasonable force can only be used as a last resort, only for the purposes of preventing harm to the child or others and that only the minimum force necessary should be used».

Under the proposed measure, family members or law enforcement could petition a court for «Extreme Risk Protection Orders,» which, if granted, would allow officers to temporarily confiscate firearms and prevent the purchase of additional weapons by those deemed at risk of causing harm to themselves or others.

City officials must work harder to keep DWI offenders from harming others and prevent more senseless accidents and tragedies, but clearly there is work to be done statewide.»

AAAS joins the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and nine other organizations in filing an amicus curie (or «friend of the court») brief, noting that «student body diversity leads to significant educational benefits and prevents the harms of social isolation.»

Specifically, even if there is no clear intent to do harm, the law should not immunize a failure to take reasonable measures, such as the sharing of information, to prevent harm when and if the entity knows that such inaction will cause damage or otherwise injure or endanger other entities or individuals.

There are people, however, informing others that GW could cause great harm to the earth and to their progeny, and that if one wants to prevent that he / she will have to pitch in with the others and reduce GHGs.

When some professional researcher observes unethical behavior by other researchers they are obliged to report that and investigate what is going on [4]; in some cases, it is even necessary to become a whistleblower in order to prevent future patients from being harmed or killed (see: «Whistleblowers in Science are Necessary to Keep Research and Science - based Industries Honest!»).

Alcohol lowers inhibitions by acting on the frontal lobes of the brain, which are responsible for controlling the impulses that prevent us from giving in to urges to harm others or ourselves.

Rich in nutrients that support the synthesis of glutathione and other key antioxidant compounds, it is clinician - formulated to help reduce oxidative stress and help prevent the harm caused by excess free radical activity.

Other changes to the XL series for»03 include a sensing function in the front passenger seat that prevents the air bag from deploying if the system senses the occupant of the seat is a small child who might be harmed by the bag.

In other words, settling an account before it gets charged off can prevent it from going to collections and adding another negative item to your credit reports — or causing other harm.

Medical identity theft: what it is, how to prevent it — Treat your health insurance card as you would a credit card or driver's license, because like the other forms of identification, great harm can be done if it falls in the wrong hands.

Preventing Disasters In light of what happened to me, I asked dog trainer Robin Bennett, author of Off - Leash Dog Play (Dreamdog Productions 2008) and a nationally known dog day care expert, how people can keep themselves out of harm's way in dog parks and other popular dog play areas.

Underground fencing will not prevent any other animals from entering the area and thus may cause harm to the dog.

Particularly animals who can cause significant harm to each other - like dogs - have developed a social mechanism for preventing conflict through interpersonal ranking.

These dogs might bark to notify others of the seizure, lie down next to the person to prevent them from harm, remove dangerous objects from the vicinity so the person is not harmed, or attempt to revive the person after the seizure ends if they lose consciousness.

You agree that breach of the above obligations will cause irreparable harm to Koch Media, and Koch Media is entitled to (in addition to any other remedies available to it) ex parte injunctive relief without bond to prevent the breach or threatened breach of your obligations.

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

Looking back on the last two decades of denial, delay and obstruction, there have been perhaps two hundred individuals who should be held most culpable, if not by the courts then by history, for failing to prevent harm or of obstructing others from taking measures to prevent harm.

In the speech, Maal — who is credited by many environmentalists with trying hard to prevent illegal fishing and other harmful activities — said the endless delays have harmed the environment and economy:

Other uncertainties include how much effort and resources will be put into improving the adaptive capacity of public health systems to prepare in advance for the health effects of climate change, prevent harm to individual and community health, and limit associated health burdens and societal costs.

The US obligation to reduce its emissions is terminated only when it is below levels required by fair global allocations that will prevent dangerous climate change although even in this case an argument can be made that any nation that could reduce emissions further should do so to avoid catastrophic harm to others.

These politicians ignore the fact that the US has ethical obligations to not harm others and as such we have ethical duties to prevent our emissions from harming others.

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and many other legal theories including tort law.

This question is designed to expose that those politicians who refuse to reduce their government's ghg on the basis that they are not scientists can not ethically justify non-action on climate change on this basis because once they are put on notice by respected scientific organizations that ghg from their government jurisdiction are harming others, they have a duty to prevent dangerous behavior or establish credible scientific evidence that the alleged dangerous behavior is safe.

Do you deny that all high ghg emitting developed nations under the UNFCCC has a duty to adopt policies that prevent harms from climate change to human health and ecological systems on which life depends which the nation is causing in other nations?