Sentence examples for knowing the harm from inspiring English sources

"Australia is like a drug dealer for climate change – selling all this coal, but all the while knowing the harm we are doing".

But it's always been difficult for me to fully enjoy those anecdotes, knowing the harm he did to himself with booze.

Sheffield crown court heard today how the 56-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, "took pleasure" in knowing the harm he was doing to his two girls and threatened them with a "real hiding" if they refused to have sex with him.

It is knowing the harm that it does that makes me angry - and so I wasn't coming from love when I wrote the earlier posts but from anger (and that is for me to work on - I acknowledge).

Knowing the harm sexual violence can do to people's lives – and how much difference it makes to get the right support – I ended up working for an organisation that supports those who've been through abuse and exploitation.

Without even knowing the phrase "harm reduction" at first, Brason had adopted its approach to drug addiction.

To pretend this language doesn't exist denies bullied kids who wake up day after day, and get on that bus, or walk through the halls of their schools, knowing the gauntlet of harm they're likely to face, the dignity and acknowledgement of bravery they're due.

Additionally, the Johannesburg Principles, adopted since 1995 by international legal experts, stipulate that "No person may be punished on national security grounds for disclosure of information if... the public interest in knowing the information outweighs the harm from disclosure".

To me, although I'm not a lawyer, knowing about the harm caused by your product, then spending millions on trying to create doubt about the facts of that harm, sounds very similar to what another industry did with its product.

Perhaps this is the hidden wisdom of Milk's charge, revealed only by what experience and time can teach us: that there is nothing more disarming to prejudice than looking into the eyes of and knowing the names of those we harm.

Barely knowing the language, but feigning fluency, could really harm the work you are trying to accomplish.