Sentences with phrase «public harm»

At the same time, the community should advocate for necessary change and self - regulate in areas where there are significant risks of public harm that have not been addressed by current law.

It's as old as industries that know their products do public harm, but lie to keep them in use.

In the case of regulatory breaches, such efficiency would permit timely responses to scenarios of possible public harm.

This leads to more tired drivers on the road, incapable of making the best decisions, in vehicles that can cause a lot of public harm.

The fuss over nursing in public harms mothers and babies.

The purpose of the proposed rule on food defense is to protect food from intentional adulteration when the intent is to cause large - scale public harm.

The student who made the threat was charged with falsely reporting an incident that created public harm, given an appearance ticket and released, the Times - Union reported.

In order to have meaningful conversations about bias on shale issues, it is perhaps not the best use of media influence to give too much criticism to young Ph.D. candidates attempting to investigate potential for public harm, at a time when academic / industry groups have so thoroughly saturated the media with mind - numbing propaganda.

Sanders» letter said the Exxon revelations «raise serious allegations of a misinformation campaign that may have caused public harm similar to the tobacco industry's actions — conduct that led to federal racketeering convictions.»

The TSSB also asserted that the enterprise's conduct threatens «immediate and irreparable public harm» — justifying the issuance of the emergency cease - and - desist order.

Why can we now debate the policy options for a further reduction in public harm, such as plain packaging or tax increases?

One of the arguments in support of absolute liability or no - fault offences urged that the «public interest» necessitated such offences in certain public welfare situations where the public good was at issue and the risk of public harm was engaged.

«He can not use his own name in this very case because of the continuing threat to his safety, and the public harm that religiously - motivated attacks have been proven to cause.»

«I strongly believe in promoting individual freedom — but I also strongly believe in reducing the public harm caused by drugs.

Though it was a difficult and painful struggle internally, I felt like the public harm from doing nothing at all was unacceptable to the people of Illinois.

In a timely manner, the Center's Science Watch Team alerts policy makers, the media, and the public to unreliable scientific claims and unjustified alarmism which often lead to public harm.

Where there is reasonable evidence of an impending threat to public harm, it is inappropriate to require proof of causation beyond a reasonable doubt before taking steps to avert the threat... that reasonable efforts to reduce risk need not await scientific proof.