Sentence examples for harmful force from inspiring English sources

Labor unions are now seeking to organize immigrants after decades of shunning them as a harmful force that pulled down wages.

The violent dogmatism witnessed by Spinoza is exactly the sort of thing emphasised by modern atheists who claim, like Russell, that religion is a harmful force in the world.

There has been a growing critique of the often superficial and un-reflexive way in which social scientists have depicted neo-liberalism as a harmful force at the heart of most of the political and economic transformations that have taken place in the last few decades (for example, Clarke, 2008; Collier, 2009; Ferguson, 2009; Mirowski and Plehwe, 2009; Collier, 2011).

In the first pathway by improving knee joint stability, abnormal loading and harmful forces generated during walking may be reduced; helping to protect and prevent further cartilage degeneration [ 3, 30].

Not so in Guatemala, where the church is a powerful and harmful political force.

Although trading pollution credits for smog and acid rain would be a major improvement over current practices under the Clean Air Act, critics say the same trading system for mercury could be more harmful than forcing individual plants to reduce releases.

We also go to ngadyeadh (herbalist) who can give medicine, but often this does not help.' (Elderly man in FGD in Kwajena, South Sudan, 9 April 2007) If a spiritual cause is established, rituals can be done to banish harmful spiritual forces: 'There is not a single treatment for ibisazi.

Or the system can force harmful immune cells to commit suicide or to go into a dysfunctional stupor called anergy.

Because you simply do not stop fighting against what you believe to be a harmful and oppressive force simply because you lack the religious faith to do so.

We speculate that their advantage as stimulating agents is due to their harmful effects which force the receiver to attend to the information.

"We believe there's no evidence that the video imagery has been used in a way that is harmful to NATO forces," Commander Burfeind said.