Sentence examples for overt harm from inspiring English sources

And I haven't lived your life or experienced anything like the subtle prejudice, or more overt harm, that you may have experienced just because of the color of your skin.

Considerable NAD depletion causes no overt harm to axons within the timescale of Wallerian degeneration.

Participants empathised strongly with the images of overt harm and distress shown and could not avoid the conclusion they might be causing their own child to suffer: "pictures of children and young babies and stuff make you think a lot more about it, not doing it".

1 The lack of impact of the pay for performance initiative on these long term adverse clinical outcomes is not surprising given its failure to affect the more intermediate outcome of blood pressure control, but at the least our study suggests no overt harms associated with implementation of pay for performance for hypertension related disease.

And I'm relieved to say that although tempting at times, I didn't seem capable of overt self-harm – taking the struggle with self to extreme.

12 The reported harms of smoking during pregnancy may diverge from their own experiences and the absence of overt or perceived harm may imply that continued smoking does not inevitably harm unborn children.

But too much overt support could harm Mrs Plavsic by making her look like a western stooge.

Overt threats of harm to others.

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

"People who engage in sexual harassment or assault are also likely to steal, plagiarize, embezzle, engage in overt racism, or otherwise harm their business," the pair wrote.

"In the absence of special physiologic factors," he observes, "it is hostility -- the desire, overt or hidden, to harm another person -- that generates and enhances sexual excitement.