Sentence examples for allowed harm from inspiring English sources

The committee irrationally rejects this crucial reform, because "Kate and Gerry McCann would have been required to prove that they had not allowed harm to come to their daughter".

Now Chinese regulators have again allowed harm to come to China's children.

This policy allowed harm reduction initiatives to flourish, and many users seemed to limit their use frequency conform the guidelines provided by Dutch harm reduction initiatives (e.g., Unity, a peer education project, and "uitgaan en drugs", an initiative from the Trimbos Institute).

12. Quinn uses the expression, "harmful positive agency" for doing harm and "harmful negative agency" for allowing harm.

Do you think I have spent the past 12 years of my career allowing harm to occur?

NAME AND LOCATION WITHHELD If your question were simply "Is a bystander who knowingly allows harm to occur guilty of something?" the answer would be easy: Yes.

Is doing harm worse than allowing harm?

But is doing harm worse than allowing harm?

On this account, doing harm is no worse than allowing harm.

This seems to distinguish typical cases of doing from typical cases of allowing harm.

The claim that doing harm is no worse than allowing harm flies in the face of powerful intuitions to the contrary.