The phrase "present harm" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe harm or danger that exists currently, rather than in the past or future. Example: The government must take immediate action to address the present harm caused by pollution in our city.
These vary from the political influence of industries and energy companies that have plants that release the gas to the lack of any clear and present harm from the increase in carbon dioxide that has already occurred: a 25percentt gain since the late 1800's, almost all of it from smokestacks and tailpipes.
Most of the patients are not aware themselves of the present harm or the physiologic alteration of the dentition.
In this retrospective observational study, we present harm rates as measured by the GTT at the five hospitals participating in the Safer Hospital Programme in Denmark.
However, it is doubtful that Harris intends to set the threshold for 'real' harms so low, for he describes the 'real and present harm' condition as a 'high standard'.
Follow any instructions that the collector stipulates, such as quickly washing out used cans or removing caps from bottles, etc. Dirty and unsorted recycling slows down the entire process and can present harm to the employees working in the recycling facilities.
As George Sher put it the present harms may not be the "automatic effects of slavery" (Sher 1981: 7).
42 He also at times replaces talk of 'real and present' harms with talk of 'real, present, and highly probable' harms.
If developed at sufficient scale and intensity, sex work organisations could play a critical role in reducing the present harms caused by criminalisation and stigma.
25 Just as we have the same reason not to cause future harms as we do not to cause present harms, we have the same reason to confer future benefits as we do to confer present ones.
John Harris accepts that the state could intervene in the genetic supermarket for social reasons, but only to prevent 'real and present harms or dangers'; he takes this to be a 'high standard'.
5 12 Counterfeiting of medicines not only presents harms to individual health, but also poses problems for broader economic and social health-related outcomes.
