Forced to choose among harms, he selects the least harmful option.
It determined that delaying payments might be the least harmful option, but made no decisions about the best route forward.
In fact, the sections of the letter quoted by the paper showed that Mr. LeBaron was arguing that the least harmful option being considered by Britain was to free Mr. Megrahi on compassionate grounds, but subject him to some looser form of confinement in Scotland, possibly in a hospice, not send him back to Libya under the prisoner-transfer pact.
Sherman thought the bill was the least harmful option.
Though the Office of the Inspector General found in a 2012 report that this would likely be the least harmful option, it would still mean the government would have to pay higher interest rates on that debt because they would have paid the bills late.
ECT is considered one of the least harmful treatment options available for severely depressed pregnant women.
There are indeed other, less harmful financing options available as well as a number of ways to effectively subsidize the roughly $800 holiday shopping tab the average consumer is expected to run up.
The officers reject these claims, saying the stun gun was "an appropriate and necessary use of force alternative to more harmful and lethal options available".
In Chicago, two community activists are asking young men to reexamine harmful notions of traditional masculinity with the program "Options for Youth".
39 The third item asked participants, "Compared to breathing smoke from other people's cigarettes, would you say that breathing vapor from other people's electronic cigarettes is…?" The response options were 'much less harmful' (1), 'less harmful' (2), 'just as harmful' (3), 'more harmful' (4) and 'much more harmful' (5).
Reduction of organic solvent consumption during the analyses and replacement of harmful solvents with greener options are the main approaches to mitigate this problem.
