Drilling in the Arctic, off our beaches or anywhere determined to be "necessary" is a harmless matter, he says, thanks to new technologies that render the whole enterprise environmentally friendly.
In essence, these seemingly harmless words mattered.
The terms butter and cheese, as defined in the statutes, were declared to be articles manufactured exclusively from pure milk or cream, or both, with salt, and with or without any harmless coloring matter.
The proposition is that, as by the Ohio statutes harmless coloring matter is permitted to be used in butter, the effect of prohibiting the use of such harmless ingredients in oleomargarine is to deprive the manufacturer of oleomargarine of the equal protection of the laws, and to take from him his property without due process of law.
The purpose of the legislature in permitting the use of harmless coloring matter in butter, and requiring that oleomargarine be sold in its natural state, was declared not to be for the purpose of discriminating in favor of butter, but to provide a ready means by which the public might know that an article offered for sale was butter, and not oleomargarine.
As a travelogue and an exercise in improving foreign relations, the show is charming and, despite its subject matter, harmless.
In Mr. Strong's dark, hunted eyes we can see swirling the discomfiting sense that these and other behaviors — like his tendency to stuff his hands deep in his pockets — may not simply be harmless tics or matters of rational choice.
On the whole, I found these matters harmless and of at least some marginal benefit to people.
Given this multitude of similarities between our stories, why did Syria deem me harmless in a matter of weeks, while Iran continues to keep two equally innocent men from continuing with their lives?
They could not be biologically decomposed into harmless materials and, to matters worse, were accumulated in the organisms (Adewunmi et al. 1996).
