Sentence examples for greater harm of from inspiring English sources

Their "lawful excuse" defence, that the harm they did was committed to prevent the greater harm of climate change, was successful and they were acquitted in September 2008.

The defendants intended to argue that their acts, though illegal, were necessary to prevent the greater harm of catastrophic climate change.

The focus on racial disparities in discipline ignores the greater harm of racial disparities in learning--how can anyone learn when there's chaos in a classroom?

While decriminalization certainly represents an important step in the right direction, it does not address many of the greater harms of prohibition, including high levels of crime, corruption and violence, empowerment of criminal organizations, massive black markets and the harmful health consequences of drugs produced in the absence of regulatory oversight.

Our data suggests that the greatest harm of sustained IAH take place in the pancreas, kidney and intestinal tissue in an early fashion and more lately in the liver.

During this period, I focused on transmission routes of hepatitis C virus which made me increasingly recognized the great harm of hepatitis in China.

These provocative findings [ 5] (and similar work by Pàez-Ribes and colleagues [ 9]) suggest that in trying to do good with adjuvant anti-VEGF therapy we might create the great harm of increasing distant metastatic disease.

The greatest harm out of the Go story was the suppression of innovation and new technology by Microsoft".

My colleague (along with most of the rest of the internet today) is absolutely right to note that Mr Brooks fails to account for the great harms of prohibition, not least the vast racial disparities in arrest and incarceration rates, and the subsequent difficulties for the victims of that injustice in finding work or public housing.

If he sticks with the current bill, Trump would be tied to a proposal that would do great harm to many of his supporters and make a mockery of his claims to be a populist.

He told the all-party committee on rendition: "The treatment of detainees has done great harm to the security of both our nations".