Sentence examples for harmfulness from inspiring English sources

"Wrong" and "harm" are separate concepts, Gladwell says, and "wrongfulness is not contingent on harmfulness".

There are, second, the rights to be protected against harms which befall children because of their childlike vulnerability and whose particular harmfulness is a function of a fact that they befall children.

This worked well until 1964, when a devastating report from the surgeon-general's advisory committee in effect ended medical uncertainty about the harmfulness of smoking.But Big Tobacco rode the punches.

As chairman of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), Dr Nutt, who heads Bristol University's psychopharmacology unit, issued reports on narcotics and recommended where each should be placed on Britain's three-point scale of harmfulness.

"The delegation has already severely criticised and educated the responsible badminton leaders, team and relevant players and demanded they profoundly recognise the seriousness and the harmfulness of this matter, reflect deeply on it, publicly apologise and resolutely prevent such incidents from happening again," Xinhua quoted an unnamed spokesman as saying.

Reading mysteries, Wilson concluded, "is a kind of vice that, for silliness and minor harmfulness, ranks somewhere between crossword puzzles and smoking".

The line might be "Talk soon" or "What did you have in mind?" Such volleys, lobbed, I hope, in complete ignorance of their harmfulness, can be devastating; can cause their victims to flatten out and pull their helmets down over their eyes.

The first would be the degree of worthlessness or actual harmfulness, of the proposed book.

My question is: How much proof do we need about the harmfulness of something before we act?

The debate about how best to attack the problem has been hampered by the somewhat ambiguous science on its harmfulness.

Sure, there's a chance that something horrific may yet be discovered about their long-term use, but there's no hard proof of any harmfulness at this time.