Sentence examples for subtle harms from inspiring English sources

The extent to which transfusion may cause further, low-grade risks is hard to assess, since subtle harms — as well as subtle gains — can easily go unrecognized in patients who are already critically ill.

But one of the reasons I am not quite so sanguine is that biotechnology, in contrast to many other scientific advances, mixes obvious benefits with subtle harms in one seamless package.

Trillin had written about a marriage in which neither partner seems to have done any grievous or even subtle harm to the other.

The preservative in question, known as thimerosal, was used in many vaccines to prevent microbial contamination until concerns were raised in 1999 that cumulative doses of mercury might cause subtle harm to the developing brain.

Requirements such as these may be too onerous when one is discussing the types of subtle harm that may be brought about by phenomena such as stigmatization and related harms.

In 1912 Mary Trenholm, head worker at East Side House, denounced to The Times the "subtle poison harming all our femininity": dances like the Bunny Hug and the Turkey Trot, which she banned at the settlement.

A second reason is that organ trafficking involves threats to specific individuals, while scientists typically can document subtle DT harm mainly to populations, although individuals are affected.

Now the evidence is piling up that subtle or short-term harms suffered by expectant mothers can affect their children several decades later even when they are born full-term and of normal weight and apparently healthy (see article).Some of the best evidence for this "fetal-origins hypothesis" comes from historical disasters.

Even if it is subtle, they argue, the harm inflicted in refuges in Louisiana and elsewhere will be long-lasting, and not worth the short-term economic gain of exploiting nonrenewable oil resources.

Sometimes that harm is a subtle scheme, such as the agent Scott Boras's request from the Mets for perks for Alex Rodriguez, the shortstop who is considered the most polished apple in baseball's free-agent crop.

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.