Sentences with phrase «than harm»

Overall, however, wetlands do much more good than harm for the planet.

«Global warming is more likely to improve rather than harm human health,» according to a new study published by three non-profit climate research organizations.

Actually taking fast carbs immediately after an intense workout is the only time when they will do more good than harm for your weight.

If they help people rather than harm people, does it matter what they believe?

Perhaps it really does do more good than harm as it means we question what we are doing and strive to do better.

In short, this is a man of stature and great humanity, the balance sheet of whose life shows that he has done immensely more good in the world than harm.

The truth is, this often neglected fruit is one food that does more good to your body than harm.

The new data could help officials pinpoint situations where a neighborhood preference would help rather than harm low - income students.

Thus, while you have no asset to lose, this may do more good than harm if not utilized properly.

Most finance companies, though, are more interested in getting their money than harming your credit rating.

With that in mind, unsecured debt should be paid off after secured debt, as losing your house is easily more traumatic than harming your credit score, although both are obviously undesirable.

Early childhood intervention that enhances self - control is likely to bring a greater return on investment than harm reduction programs targeting adolescents alone (30).

Like any new technology, of course, it would be up to us to decide how to use it responsibly to help rather than harm.

But this business strategy as a short term and occasional tactic to boost sales can do more good than harm to small businesses.

Kim R. Lebowitz, PhD, the director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in Chicago, is an advocate of positive psychology, a relatively new school of psychology that focuses on the benefits of positive traits (such as happiness, faith, optimism, and humor) rather than the harm caused by negative traits (such as anger, depression, anxiety, and hostility).

The discrepancy between the actual award for lost reputation and the proposed award for sexual assault suggests that injury to a person's reputation is greater than the harm suffered by victims of sexual abuse.

The report says that «global warming is more likely to improve rather than harm human health because rising temperatures lead to a greater reduction in winter deaths than the increase they cause in summer deaths.»

She said that the pain inflicted on families by divorce or separation was often less than the harm caused by the manner in which couples split.

Yes, there are strong arguments for reforms such as a donation cap or an opt - in trade union political levy, but don't let people pretend that greater taxpayer funding of political parties will do anything other than harm our democracy.

Without a doubt, and in the main, testing has done more good than harm in America's schools.

«Overall, it's a very positive thing, creating a lot more jobs and economic improvement than harm,» says Kevin Gibbon, CEO of Shyp, a shipping service.

Because they judge those that they picket as not being innocent, or they judge their demonstration as being more important than the harm they do.

Of all the birthing ideas, this one is least supported by research but midwives argue that skin to skin contact does more good than harm where as doctors, being more medically and scientifically minded, are looking for the research to back up this claim.

In other words, when applied to maternity care, The Precautionary Principle states that when a practice, action, or policy may raise threats of harm to mother, baby, or family, the burden of proof that it will result in more good than harm falls on those who wish to adopt it — the policy maker, caregiver, or administrator, not on the pregnant person.

Yet raising the price of alcohol is more likely to benefit the economy than harm it, by reducing the productivity costs associated with workers» harmful alcohol consumption.

Anthropologists and nongovernmental organizations will be watching closely to see if Peru can help rather than harm members of one of the world's last isolated tribes.

Rather than harming Egyptian science, Hawass says that he raised standards, cleaned up corruption and trained a new generation of researchers.

But in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found evidence that these large SOD1 fibrils protect rather than harm neurons.

«There was a concept that reactive oxygen species are bad,» he says, «but they can do more than harm cells.»

Those opposed to this legislation typically argue that DDT saved more lives than it harmed, but there is another reason to be wary of the vilification of DDT.

The controversy persists because researchers do not yet know if e-cigarette use results in more benefit than harm at the population level.

The study showed that people started with a better understanding of the benefits of lung cancer screening than the harms or eligibility criteria.

At older ages (45 - 59 years), the benefits of cycling were much larger than the harms.

«People with severe chronic illnesses that put them more at risk [for dangerous complications of the flu] are more likely to get benefit than harm from the vaccine,» he says.

Both these landmark studies help to underscore the fact that if used correctly, creatine will benefit, rather than harm ones health.

While there are indeed harsh exfoliators in the market today, exfoliating can do more good for your skin than harm — it removes old surface skin cells, which can often be the cause of blemishes or your skin looking dull.

Tight budgets should encourage districts to spend smartly and stretch funds, rather than harm education with shortsighted cuts.

We find strong evidence that rather than harming achievement in reading and science, double - dosing had positive effects across the board.

Lesser harm or necessity can be defined as making a criminal act justifiable if the act was necessary in order to prevent a foreseeable and greater harm than the harm that was created by this act.

Those days are gone, thankfully, and laws such as the Canadian Human Rights Act now comprise a greater threat to our liberty than the harms they were meant to address.

The issue of uncontrollable urges is very different than the harm caused by many other dangerous medications.

If you are feeling the career change itch BEWARE of this kind of language because it will cause you more hurt than harm.

Griffith to Hungar: Let's imagine a situation where we agreed with you on the language of the statute but thought the harm [to the government would be much greater than the harm to your clients.

It matters to them very much that carbon dioxide should be demonized in the run up to this December's UN climate conference in Paris because, otherwise, people might be the under the impression that CO2 is in fact a benign trace gas which does far more good to the world than harm.

A new study by three non-profit climate research organizations has claimed that global warming is more likely to «improve rather than harm human health.»