Sentence examples for slight harms from inspiring English sources

5 6 A recently published trial of amoxicillin for acute uncomplicated LRTI in primary care concluded that amoxicillin provides little clinical benefit and causes slight harms.

24 The slight benefits gained from taking amoxicillin in adults consulting to primary care with acute uncomplicated LRTI must be balanced against the slight harms that amoxicillin causes in terms of side effects, as well as the associated contribution to antibiotic resistance.

The argument that the slight harm to the sellers is more than offset by the lifesaving potential on the other end of the transaction is also troubling to Scheper-Hughes.

Re "Putting Money on Lawsuits, Investors Share in the Payouts" ("Betting on Justice" series, front page, Nov. 15): Some critics of litigation finance claim that investors will stir up lawsuits among average citizens who would otherwise not be interested in suing for some slight harm.

GCF samples were gently collected, and extreme care was taken not to cause any slightest harm or injury during the sample collection.

The woman I diligently tried to protect from slightest harm, day in and day out.

Or do we trust that the corporations that negotiated these rules have our interests at heart, and would never, in the slightest, harm our democracy?

The person Romney was playing loves Medicare and Social Security; far be it from him even to think of doing the slightest harm to an elderly or poor person; he will protect people with pre-existing conditions; he is "all in favor of green energy"; he wants tens of thousands of new teachers; he is "not going to cut education funding"; he's against those greedy New York banks.

At worst, it has been misleading because in the public debate its conclusions have been used to argue that since there is no evidence of harm, the harm must be slight.

Though he agrees with Epicurus that the gods, who should be our ethical role models, are untouched by anger (Piet. 1147 ff. Obbink), it is, according to Philodemus, natural for us human beings to feel anger and desire revenge at certain harms or slights.

The problem of dealing with risk in rights-based moral theories was formulated by Robert Nozick: "Imposing how slight a probability of a harm that violates someone's rights also violates his rights?" (Nozick 1974, 7).