Sentence examples for an attempt to harm from inspiring English sources

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The incident reports reveal that in January last year one girl watched as her mother swallowed screws in an attempt to harm herself.

WikiLeaks, which Assange founded in 2006, has been posting daily batches of emails from Clinton's campaign chair, John Podesta, seemingly in an attempt to harm Clinton's electoral chances.

Nevertheless the local justice department ordered the arrest of Ms. Kheirandish and Mr. Zamani, and religious leaders depicted their act as an attempt to harm Islam.

Baer called leak "an attempt to harm the medium itself —confidential communication among governments— rather than a rejection of the messages".

In May 2005, the Russian embassy in Armenia denied any such involvement, and described Litvinenko's accusation as an attempt to harm relations between Armenia and Russia by people against the democratic reforms in Russia.

The Coalition for Educational Success, a lobbying organization funded by Education Management Corp., ITT Technical Institute and other for-profit institutions argued that Department of Education officials were meeting with short sellers in an attempt to harm stocks for the publicly traded college corporations and allow the investors to cash in.

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The military said any attempt to "harm public and private interests" would draw a "firm" response, suggesting it would not tolerate violent protests.

It is impossible to overstate the seriousness with which the police take any attempt to harm one of their own.

He added that the military was "ready to defend against any threat and to respond strongly against any attempt to harm Israeli citizens".

However if such instances are not a deliberate attempt to harm a patient (e.g. carelessness in not helping a patient to cut-up their food), a distinction must be made between neglect and abuse due to them having psychologically distinct motivational underpinnings.

At the time, Jordan's Public Security Department described the accusations "baseless", and Mohammed Khatib, a spokesman for the police, said: "The Jordanian police do not torture, do not beat and any claim is a direct attempt to harm the image of Jordan".

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