Sentence examples for harmful myth from inspiring English sources

It is a widespread and harmful myth that one needs to make more money to save some of it.

"The problem with gay marriage and the position David has taken," Mr. Fieler said, "is it promotes a very harmful myth about the gay lifestyle.

Joseph Melody Los Angeles, Sept. 1, 2009 • To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof's column on the use of divorce by the elderly to avoid financial impoverishment because of long-term custodial illness unfortunately perpetuates a harmful myth.

According to her study, "Freshman 15: Valid Theory or Harmful Myth?" published in 2002 in The Journal of American College Health, 26 of the students gained an average of 4.6 pounds, 16 students lost weight, and 2 students maintained their weight.

These two studies and others that are recounted in the Armstrong and Green paper strengthen the authors' assertion that the oft-touted advice to chase market share to achieve greater profitability is a harmful myth.

Around this year's Earth Day, it is time to explode this harmful myth.

Dispelling harmful myths and actively promoting direct Chinese investment would help us capture a larger share of China,s rapidly growing ODI levels (PRC ODI to the world roughly doubled from $27 billion in 2007 to $56 billion in 2008), which in turn would create more U.S. jobs.

Many of these men will insist it's all for fun, or just a joke, but whether the intent is to harm, or simply to do some chest-puffing for friends, "it still perpetuates all of the harmful myths attached to that language and those words," Sarkeesian says.

In the context of a public health emergency for example such an environment provides fertile bedding for the establishment of harmful myths and rumours.

It busts harmful myths and illuminates the facts of how we operate.

Usually, we hand down to them the same useless, often harmful myths.