Sentence examples for supposed harms from inspiring English sources

National gay-rights groups had been challenging state sodomy laws based on supposed harms to gay citizens, who were, litigators claimed, made to look like presumptive criminals.

After balancing all risks and benefits, energy infrastructure projects can go forward given the fixed commitment to redress any supposed harms to indigenous groups.

Whitehouse and Cardin still accept the supposed "harms" of piracy from the entertainment industry -- figures which no one else has been able to replicate or justify.

No inherent property of the species can explain this dramatic reversal, as the War on Weed stems not from an attempt to lessen marijuana's supposed harms, but rather to suppress its benefits.

Whilst superficially the limitations are employed on a 'harm-to-others' rationale, the fact that the supposed harms fail to undergo any empirical analysis exemplifies the circumscribed nature of the judicial balancing process.

Congress also held hearings (with Michael Masters as a prime witness) probing the supposed harm done by oil speculators.

But we need to separate out the supposed harm done by revealing things and the original harm done by whatever was revealed.

The "time, place, and manner regulations" provision doesn't apply here, because the restriction here was justified with reference to the content of the expression (and the supposed harm that it might cause).

For more than a year, Romney has been carping about the supposed harm caused by the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act, which passed with support of such diehard big bank apologists as (wait for me now) Mitch McConnell and Jim DeMint.

I worked 30 years in the steel industry, never had a day off with illness, so it was a real shock and I think I come from the school where ignorance is bliss occasionally: the more you get to know about things that are supposed to harm you, the more they harm you, which is quite worrying really.

The UN sanctions that led to the deaths of a million Iraqis through the 1990s were also supposed to harm only the government.