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The phrase "a direct harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the immediate and clear negative effects of an action or situation on someone or something.
Example: "The new policy could result in a direct harm to the community's well-being."
Alternatives: "an immediate harm" or "a clear injury".
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Infringements of patients' freedom were seen as a direct harm to be avoided if possible.
Any harm to culture is perceived as a direct harm to the ability of the tribe to continue into the future" (Tsosie 2007).
This is a direct harm of screening because markers to distinguish the overdiagnosed tumors from the potential life-threatening tumors are lacking and, thus, all tumors are treated.
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So there won't be any direct harm to them.
Even though I was confident our product wasn't doing any direct harm, I was still sympathetic to Celeste's point of view.
My dabbling in drugs never caused any direct harm that I know of, and I've done about six years of a 3-9 sentence for an ounce of coke.
A business that experiences a little direct harm from the act may benefit on the whole because competitors are harmed more.
I think most people are happy to accept that when it comes to deciding what's hot and what's horrible, barring a measure of direct harm, there's often little scientific basis for decisions which place a particular image into one camp or another.
Although the effect of these interventions on responses to moral dilemmas have not yet been studied, they are likely to lead to a decrease in aversion to direct harm, and thus to an increase in utilitarian judgment in trolley-like situations.
These cases tend to support the proposition that mere invasion or use of a portion of the web site by a spider is a trespass (leading at least to nominal damages), and that there need not be an independent showing of direct harm either to the chattel (unlikely in the case of a spider) or tangible interference with the use of the computer being invaded.
Dave Willner: "Please advance an argument against the idea that protecting free expression except to prevent direct harm is a moral imperative.
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