Sentence examples for omission to prevent from inspiring English sources

It would be unethical and a "sin of omission" to prevent the genetic engineering of embryos, a leading scientist has argued.

An omission to prevent harm when the person concerned has a legal duty to prevent it can ground legal responsibility but would ordinarily be described as 'not preventing' rather than causing the harm.

First, causings of evils like deaths of innocents are commonly distinguished from omissions to prevent such deaths.

In this week's Scrubbing Up, she says the NHS often doesn't let witnesses file complaints - an omission akin to preventing people reporting an abandoned bag at an airport because they don't have the owner's permission.

Moreover, these are well-established factors in intentional insulin omission 25 and overeating to prevent insulin-induced hypoglycaemia.

Searches were not restricted by intervention due to the complexity of defining the intervention and to prevent omission of relevant references.

Following piloting with 10 subjects, the method of administration of the questionnaires was changed from self-administration to administration by research assistants to prevent omission of data.

In the full study, this may mean data imputation using regression techniques, but in the pilot study, there will be insufficient data to carry out the regressions robustly and last observation carried forward may be used to prevent omission of patients.

The list of questions was only there to prevent omissions in the topics to be addressed.

This little-noted achievement -- if you can call it that -- relates to a glaring omission in the new initiative to prevent youth suicide just approved by the House and Senate, and awaiting President Bush's signature.

In his plan Bacon had achieved more than a thoroughly scientific and acceptable arrangement of the contents of an encyclopaedia; he had ensured that the encyclopaedists would have a comprehensive outline of the scope of human knowledge that would operate as a checklist to prevent the omission of whole fields of human thought and endeavour.