Dannenfelser counsels politicians to talk about pregnant women in ways that sound helpful, not punitive, and the laws that Tillis helped pass in North Carolina fit this model: they were framed as attempts to protect women from doctors who withhold information, or from dangerous clinics.
Rather than being a noble fight against corporate power, as some of its supporters suggested, the ban was just another law that sounded helpful on paper but wouldn't have solved the original problem while creating more needless legal obstacles.
But along with all that sound, helpful advice, celebrities also have a knack for teaching us what not to do, particularly in the workplace.
Even a technology that sounds innocuous and helpful, such as self-driving cars, isn't immune from ethical and legal questions.
It's no secret that 18-year-olds have a supernatural ability to tune out anything that sounds too much like helpful advice.
I've read a lot of advice about email that, although it sounds helpful, just isn't realistic.
"That strains credulity — that sounds like a fib!" True — but maybe it would be helpful to note who else it sounds like?
This can be helpful if you've heard of something that sounds interesting, but haven't had the opportunity to it.
Knowing full well that the thought of filing taxes turns many mortals into Jello molds, the charmers at the IRS have devised this thing that is meant to sound helpful.
Google has just announced a new feature for its core search engine that sounds like it will be very helpful: a new kind of related search result that's based around lists.
