Sentence examples for personal harms from inspiring English sources

The MacKinnon/Dworkin model ordinance sought to make "pornography actionable as a civil rights violation" so that women would have legal recourse when pornographic materials prevent the exercise of their rights or cause personal harms (MacKinnon 1993, 22, 121, n. 32).

However, the VMPC patients' decisions diverged when the scenario required inflicting direct personal harm on one person to save several others--such as shoving a large person off a bridge to slow a trolley headed for five people.

Primarily concerned with the safety and welfare of the person, an advocate of hard paternalism would permit restrictions of liberty to prevent suicide or grave personal harm even when a person in question is fully cognizant of his actions and their consequences.

Could a corrupt judge execute a search order to enter an innocent person's home in a corrupt county and do great personal harm?

They stayed during Sandy, escaping personal harm, even though their basement flooded.

"What we would like to say is that for the time being we protect her from personal harm".

The Bush administration potentially brought personal harm to a C.I.A. agent for the administration's own self-serving purposes.

But within weeks he had cheerfully threatened the head of the Federal Reserve with personal harm, and had forgotten his own reform proposals in a televised debate.

He took up the issue not as a tactic to attack the apartheid system, he said, but because of the personal harm the policy was doing to athletes.

As a result, cyclists tend to see any part of the road or pavement as their own moral high ground, even at the risk of grave personal harm.

She pointed out that Jews seeking compensation for slave labor and property loss during the Holocaust can make a direct claim of personal harm.