"commit harm" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to causing harm through physical or psychological means. For example: "The perpetrator was found guilty of committing harm to his victims."
Before Sann Aung could question Thein Win, the court charged Saungkha with an additional count: inspiring others to commit harm against the state or to disturb the public.
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.
As a rule, violence is less common among people with mental illness than is often assumed; a vast majority are no more likely to commit harm than anyone else.
"To free three suspects without a fair trial, after they were found at the crime scene with a clear intent to commit harm, undermines the rule of law and sends a terrible message that can only serve to embolden the enemies of a free and secure Iraq".
And it turns out that one of the major strategies in Nazi Germany to enable people to commit harm against their neighbors was to use a language of dehumanization that referred to the groups being harmed the Jews, the gypsies, the homosexuals as non-human in some way.
The memo, drafted at the request of the CIA, contended that only physically punishing acts "of an extreme nature" would be prosecutable, and that those committing torture with express presidential authority or without the intent to commit harm were probably immune from prosecution.
And that means the (very bad) act of not stopping something harmful is not commensurate with the (very, very bad) act of actively committing harm.
The online hacking group Anonymous, dedicated to committing harm, chose its name advisedly.
Proponents of red flag laws note that before a court order can be executed, there must be evidence of a history of violence, or documented threats of committing harm to themselves or others.
