Sentence examples for harm to avoid from inspiring English sources

Such problems are often described with the vocabulary of "dirty hands", but, as Rubenstein argues, this description is misplaced since, for one thing, the aid agencies do not themselves intentionally do harm to avoid some great evil or achieve some great good.

Nemati was given a 12 months good behaviour bond, but a statement from the Nauruan government said prosecutors had sought jail time of between one and two months "to deter other would-be offenders who resort to self-harm to avoid lawful actions against them or to get what they want".

These preventive interventions should only be implemented when measurable criteria of efficiency and equity can be met, with an appropriate balance between benefits and harms to avoid iatrogenic effects in the healthy population.

Since 2008 American and Nato forces have introduced some significant improvements in operational guidelines in order to reduce civilian harm and to avoid the denials and the misreporting.

"You don't want to harm people today to avoid things that might not happen tomorrow".

Infringements of patients' freedom were seen as a direct harm to be avoided if possible.

Actions are interventions that are undertaken before harm occurs that seek to avoid or diminish the harm.

Further, rules need to be established to avoid harm such as social discrimination or financial harm from the data provider.

Anxiety normally is an adaptive mechanism that signals a potentially harmful internal or external change and thereby enables individuals to avoid harm or to cope with stress.

If this is so, doesn't an attorney have a moral duty to avoid harm to the children, if it is avoidable?

On average, people receiving the placebo were willing to forfeit about 55 cents per shock to avoid harming themselves, and 69 cents to avoid harming others.