Sentence examples for severity of the harm from inspiring English sources

The latter study showed that most women are aware that smoking is harmful, but do not understand the potential severity of the harm.

The court emphasized that it did not "mean to minimize the severity of the harm that thousands of children in Rhode Island have suffered as a result of lead poisoning".

Anti-prostitution laws were never really a deterrent – people involved would be released after a month in prison – whereas the new trafficking law mandates sentences between five- and 15-years depending on the severity of the harm to the women.

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.

The severity of the harm, however, varied.

The degree of behaviour modification appeared to vary according to the severity of the harm that participants anticipated occurring as a result.

For this reason we did not make any assumptions about the severity of the harms associated with treatment but calculated the net benefit for a range of values of NWT.

Risk is "the combination of the probability of occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm" while hazard is "the potential source of harm".

The Global Harmonization Task Force have recommended a four tier risk classification system for medical devices and diagnostics where risk is defined as the combination of the probability of occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm [ 7].

Fortunately, such a scenario is unlikely and shouldn't be a paralyzing concern to the average driver or passenger; and yet, due to the severity of the potential harm, automakers need to take the threat seriously.

The severity of the injury was unclear.