Sentence examples for immediate harms from inspiring English sources

Some do so only to prevent immediate harms, such as libel, violence or child pornography; others ban "hate speech" (offensive utterances against groups such as gay people or racial minorities) or blasphemy.

This is because the evidence now suggests men's and women's risks from drinking a given amount of alcohol are about the same – although  men have a higher risk than women of immediate harms such as accidents and injuries, and women's risk of long term illness (and premature death) is higher.

For the two teachers who viewed the issue in the short term, the argument they made that "there would be no immediate harms to humans if GM bacteria is used to clean oil spills" implied that the two teachers were not very sensitive to or knowledgeable about the potential effects of using GM bacteria on ecology or humans (e.g., negative impacts on biodiversity or ecological balance).

Unless a "toxin" of any kind is so potent that it produces obvious and nearly immediate harms in absolutely everyone exposed, there will be variation in the effects observed.

On one hand, emphasizing the behaviours of specific subgroups (typically young binge drinkers) allows a clear portrayal of overt and immediate harms to society.

27 Because of the uncertainty surrounding the frequency of harms, it is unclear what level of delayed benefit would justify exposing patients to those immediate harms.

Exposure to low-dose radiation, although not able to cause immediate harm, can be associated with long-term harmful effects [ 109].

Emotional abuse can be combined with any of these other kinds of abuses; while physical and sexual abuse risks more direct and immediate harm to the recipient, emotional and verbal abuse can be just as harmful in the long run.

Released last year, the report concluded that even brief exposure to cigarette smoke could cause immediate harm.

"It is not just the immediate harm; it is something that lasts a lifetime".

These reductions will cause no immediate harm to either the farms or the cities.