Sentence examples for had been harmful from inspiring English sources

"If you go back to 1996," Mr. Goldsmith said, "the Republicans' message was that government had been harmful.

"If it had been harmful, the French would never have given it a gold medal," counters Ms. Riefenstahl.

Karen Blumer of Shoreham, an expert on Long Island native plants, said rapid development had been harmful to native species and beneficial to opportunistic invaders.

Despite President Bush's support for broad legislation to give legal status to illegal immigrants, 41percentt of Hispanics said his policies had been harmful to them, while just 16percentt said his policies helped them.

'Her own relationship with her mother had been harmful and I don't think enough has been understood about her preoccupation with women and her fascination with the effect of a bad relationship with a mother,' said Pizzichini this weekend.

I think those are fair questions to be asking," said the Rev. Megan E. Stewart-Sicking of Immanuel Episcopal Church in Glencoe, Md. Diana Butler Bass, a prominent progressive church historian and Episcopalian who lives in Northern Virginia, said she wondered if the denomination's liberal tendencies had been harmful in this case.

But it has been harmful since.

I think charter schools have been harmful, very harmful, to Ohio students".

Sometimes that meant avoiding medications or procedures that would have been harmful to the child.

Many patriotic people have carried out or supported actions that have been harmful to their country.

... By his own admission, his actions have been harmful to the people of this state.