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Discover LudwigThe phrase "act of harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that causes injury or damage to someone or something.
Example: "The investigation revealed that the defendant had committed an act of harm against the victim."
Alternatives: "harmful action" or "act of injury".
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"It is an act of harm against Brazilian women by the state".
The civil libertarian Tessa Mayes, an expert on privacy law and free speech issues, said: "Making jokes about terrorism is considered a thought crime, mistakenly seen as a real act of harm or intention to commit harm.
What seems to distinguish one act of harm from another becomes a battle of false equivalence.
In fact, informing him of his inexorable death is very probably an act of harm if he is likely to suffer from death anxiety.
When it is impossible to determine whether the motivation behind an act of harm was accidental or deliberate, undetermined intent event categories may be used instead.
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The plaintiff notes that Zezulka breached her duty to use ordinary care in protecting Hickey from harm, including his own intentional act of harming himself.
Therefore, on the facts of this case, a finding by the jury that Zezulka's failure to remove Hickey's belt, and her failure to properly supervise him in the DPS holding cell, constituted negligence would be nonsensical if Hickey's subsequent intentional act of harming himself was not reasonably foreseeable by Zezulka.
Deutsche Register Klinischer Studien, Study ID: DRKS00007807; Trial Registration Date: 13.02.2015 Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the self-directed act of harming one's own body tissue (i.e., cutting or burning) without suicidal intent [ 1].
Dozens of threatened and actual acts of harm and self-harm are given the lowest-level grading.
Processes that are nimble and rapidly responsive to acts of harm are therefore more aligned with young adults' capacity and so more likely to produce positive results.
Because of the stigma around sex and sex work, I worried that threats or acts of harm against her would be dismissed or overlooked".
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