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Discover LudwigThe phrase "allowing harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing permission or acceptance of actions that may cause damage or injury.
Example: "The new policy is concerning, as it seems to be allowing harm to the environment without any accountability."
Alternatives: "permitting damage" or "tolerating injury".
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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?
Is doing harm worse than allowing harm?
But is doing harm worse than allowing harm?
This seems to distinguish typical cases of doing from typical cases of allowing harm.
On this account, doing harm is no worse than allowing harm.
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Better reporting of harms would provide timely and important information to guide clinicians and the public in making decisions about treatment not only at the individual study level but also through allowing harms to be properly investigated in systematic reviews and meta-analysis, which can have greater statistical power from pooled data.
To allow harm is to do harm; it is wrong not to give money that you do not need for the most basic necessities.
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".
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.
Now Chinese regulators have again allowed harm to come to China's children.
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