Sentence examples for certain harm from inspiring English sources

This case is also an example of a court making a legal holding that a particular substance did not cause a certain harm, preventing the issue from ever reaching a jury.

Among those who argue most passionately for nuclear power these days are some environmentalists, who see the uncertain threat that it presents as preferable to the certain harm of climate change.

"I cannot say," he wrote, that disclosure "will surely result in direct, immediate and irreparable damage to our nation or its people". In other contexts, too, the Supreme Court has endorsed limits on speech only when it would cause immediate and almost certain harm to identifiable people.

That an agent intended to bring about a certain harm does not explain why the action was impermissible, but it can explain what is morally faulty about the agent's reasoning in pursuing that line of action.

Double effect might also be part of a secular and non-absolutist view according to which a justification adequate for causing a certain harm as a side effect might not be adequate for causing that harm as a means to the same good end under the same circumstances.

And in the GOP budget authored by Ryan, low-income families face certain harm; millionaires are given massive tax breaks.

The court held that the catch-all disclosure exemption in the CPRA applied, which requires balancing the public interest in preventing disclosure where certain harms can be identified against the public interest served by disclosure such as furthering the public's understanding of the privacy risks of the ALPR program.

What is in doubt need not be the moral importance of, for example, preventing certain harms, but rather the means to achieve this end.

Similarly, the idea of certain harms to Cecelia's welfare will make me feel terrible (the idea of her being bitten by a dog, say) while others will make me feel less terrible (the idea of her getting chicken pox, say), even while my estimation of the harm to her welfare might make the two scenarios quite similar.

Though he agrees with Epicurus that the gods, who should be our ethical role models, are untouched by anger (Piet. 1147 ff. Obbink), it is, according to Philodemus, natural for us human beings to feel anger and desire revenge at certain harms or slights.

Exxon called the California plaintiffs hypocrites, filing an action in Texas state court that says those counties and cities never disclosed this alleged near-certain harm in bond offerings.