The government blames "harmful rumors," a phrase that dominated the two-day press tour and has been labeled the fourth disaster to hit Fukushima, after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident.
It's clear that the phrase "harmful to society" is still a contentious qualifier.
Boys grow up being told to "act like a man" and discouraged from ever doing anything "like a girl," a phrase harmful to both boys and girls.
The law requires libraries to block access to obscene material and child pornography and to block minors' access to material "harmful to minors," a phrase given a definition that includes graphic sexual depictions that are "patently offensive" and lacking in "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value as to minors".
Therefore, it is important to bear in mind the paradox found within the phrase "nondrug-related harmful effect" when planning educational activities in various settings (schools, health centers, institutional campaigns in the media, and others), such that the danger involved in experimenting with tobacco and alcohol is not minimized in the minds of adolescents and preadolescents.
Benn is entirely right to challenge the phrase as vastly more harmful than helpful in the face of the world's present difficulties.
Thinking critically about the harmful assumptions inherent in, for example, the phrase "I don't see colour" is not "[scrubbing] campuses clean of words".
Once I became aware of how often I say the seemingly innocuous words "I'm sorry," and subsequently eliminating unnecessary usage of this phrase, I realized just how harmful it can be to one's self confidence.
General phrases can mislead and will create harmful friction.
He said he told Mr Trump that the phrase "fake news" was "untrue and harmful" but said he was "far more concerned about his labelling journalists 'the enemy of the people'".
