Sentences with phrase «than harm as»

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

Not exact matches

«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.

As a solution, municipal strategist Chris Mier believes bankruptcy would cause more harm than good.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

«Sustainability» is a catch - all phrase that refers to the science, or practice, of acting so as not to harm the environment, protecting (rather than depleting) natural resources and supporting long - term ecological balance.

«My assessment is that U.S. sanctions eventually bring more harm to Europe than to Russia, also as a result of our counter-sanctions that create burden costs for the European economy,» Arkady Dvorkovich, told CNBC on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy.

For example, some people will have a very strong inclination to dismiss any claims that marijuana may cause harm as nothing more than old - fashioned reefer madness.

The requested report would not, in substance, provide any more meaningful information than our existing disclosures, nor would it justify the competitive harm we may suffer as a result of the disclosed information.

On the other hand, if you have a coworking space in the direct vicinity of WeWork or in a relatively untapped market, their marketing efforts might do you more harm than good, as we saw last year when WeWork employees started to reach out to other workspace members in the hopes of getting them to sign a lease with WeWork.

Nor are the purchasers of such shares harmed; as in an IPO, they take the shares knowing that the rights will be less than those of the existing shareholders.

As a result, unless or until those states can bring their budgets into a primary surplus, introducing such a provision would certainly do more harm than good.

Given that California contributes far more to the national economy than any other state, both California and the US as a whole should be concerned about national trade policies that harm rather than boost California's economy.

Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a few other central banks — though surprisingly, only a few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that central banking may not be the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds.

«Because the proclamation is unlawful as applied to plaintiffs, and inflicts grave and irreversible harms on them, plaintiffs seek a declaration that the proclamation violates the Trade Act and the NAFTA Implementation Act and an injunction prohibiting its enforcements against plaintiffs,» they wrote in their more than 600 - page complaint.

Again, if one actually believes that zero interest policy is helpful to the economy more than it creates harm through financial stability risks (and we certainly view the risks as dominant), it follows that the FOMC may indeed be put on hold for a while.

If I were a moral Babist, I'd worry more about ridding scouting of «Pedophiles «serving as scout leaders who do far more harm than so - called pre-adolescent gays!

I don't abuse (not intentionally, but I am blunt which can be seen as a less than stellar trait) because I don't wish to cause harm.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

In the mean time, the organization is corrupt, as it always has been and it is really difficult to quantify if they do more harm than good, or more good than harm.

We might as well blame these on Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny... You religious nuts cause more harm than good.

Liberal Wesleyans decided that an emphasis on the Second Blessing as an immediate possibility for all believers did more harm than good.

They both regard woman as less than men, instead of looking at history and effect of these habits which has more harm to others.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

As a Catholic who strongly supports Pope Francis and views Rush Limbaugh beyond the limits of decency, I find any expressions of hate and desire for bodily harm or death even more repulsive than Rush's most vile comments.

So yes, I too believe that religion as a whole has done more harm than good.

With human exceptionalism cast aside, our new prime directive is to eliminate suffering, and eliminating the sufferer is now advocated in high places as a moral good rather than a pernicious harm.

As I've written elsewhere, «if you are interacting with a sex offender who is admitting he or she has harmed someone, and you feel yourself being pulled to feel sorry for this person instead of, or more than, the victim, it is probable that an experienced victim - stancer is manipulating you.»

Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

Needless to say, in the weeks leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's recent pilgrimage to Great Britain I had little expectation that my English kin would hold anything other than a dim view of the entire affair as being another example of religion wasting money, cloggingtraffic in central London, and no doubt also harming the environment.

Openness can not be a one way street... If someone rejects you and does harm to you (as the fundamentalists Christian right do to so many) their harmful behavior should not be tolerated any more than that of a common criminal.

Oh and on the note of Gay and obesity, the Obese need to sort their live out as they do far more harm to our planet than Gays (how are as they are - so accpet it.).

The image of mentally retarded people as innocent, childlike creatures who can do no deliberate wrong is only one of many simplistic ways of describing them that have done more harm than good.

When Rachel Carson dared to suggest in Silent Spring that synthetic pesticides did more harm than good, her book was dismissed as so much hogwash.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

It's really pathetic and can be quite frightening when christians use the bible as a weapon to harm people rather than to build them up.

Wouldn't he have helped the child rather than deny the child, as the church does to protect its own reputation over the harm of child?

To summarize, all of these six factors harm persons because they diminish the self - esteem of the man in the pew, treating him as an object rather than a subject.

As evidenced time and again throughout history, the Christian movement has done far more harm than good in its efforts to control to governmental activies of a nation.

He saw it as a chance to pick on someone who is obviously far more intelligent than he is and thus a turn to spew more hatred of atheists... he just keeps putting more nails in christianities proverbial coffin - no harm done to our side.

Still, as heresies go, the cosmic vending machine has done far less harm than the Cosmic Bully, IMO.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

So as far as I'm concerned, the corporate church does more harm to the «body» than good.

In this Biffi depicted Anselm's perspective as, contrary to much modern emphasis, grasping that «reality as a whole is much greater than we grasp through simple natural understanding, substantiated solely by sensory experience, inductive and deductive reasoning, mathematical calculation -LSB-...] faith not only is not separable from reason, and does not harm it, but is even the greatest and highest exercise of our intellectual faculty.»

We are after all, flawed broken individuals and however we choose to organise ourselves we'll end up doing as much, if not more, harm than good.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it — diet is a highly personal choice, and the «wellness» labels we've created for ourselves can often do more harm than good, as in this case.

I been making this bread for a while and also if I may suggest, do invest on clay pots, no cleaning needed ever (they are cheaper than cruisets) just throw some corn meal on the bottom before you dump the dough in, pyrex works as well... always when in doubt... throw the corn meal in the bottom, no harm done in there.

As with any suggested age recommendation, there is no harm in trying asparagus earlier and many babies have been introduced to it earlier than 8 months of age.

There are many people who avoid gluten without actually knowing what it is, and for these people, while it certainly does not do any harm, it doesn't necessarily benefit them to go gluten - free, other than that by doing so they are avoiding gluten - containing foods such as cakes, breads and biscuits which are usually high in calories and fat.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?