Sentence examples for harmless act from inspiring English sources

Despite the fact that many could deem misrepresenting one's age a harmless act, under the breadth of the CFAA, those who do so could be prosecuted criminally.

The simple, and you would think harmless, act of holding hands, so often an act of protection or care, can – in some situations – expose you to real danger.

The other man replied that it would be a harmless act; no one would be hurt by a rock thrown at the side of a building.

John Rather (NYT) MANHATTAN: ARAB WRITER ADMITS STONE-THROWING Edward Said, the Palestinian writer and Columbia University professor, has admitted he threw stones at Israel's border fence -- but he said it was a harmless act of joy.

"She didn't kill anyone," Judge Burton said of the volunteer, trying to put a seemingly harmless act into everyday, real-life perspective -- a perspective that has somehow vanished these days.

Discarding personal refuse in public is not a harmless act; it erodes the health of a city as surely as higher-level crime does, if with less immediate danger.

The harm principle would require toleration of (1) competent self-harm and self-imposed risk, (2) harm to consenting others, and (3) harmless acts.

The parade returns the Olympics to a celebration of men and women who run and swim and lift huge weights and other essentially harmless acts.

Surely, only a psychopath would think that using the N-word or posting a photo of a burning Quran were harmless acts.

For example, even if agreement were to be reached to disallow paternalism intended to prevent self-harm, consensual harm, or harmless acts, reasonable people could conceivably disagree about what constituted self-harm, harm to others, and valid consent.

To date, black people have been killed by police for walking to their apartment, carrying a toy gun, staring, and many other harmless acts too ordinary to be worthy of death.