Harm in a sentence as a noun

How does the plaintiff prove that her kid's harms weren't the result of say lead in pipes rather than lead in the air?

It is enough to give anyone a very jaded view of law and how its outworkings can harm people.

We know using weapons to attack people creates horrific, real human harm.

In other words, it's very easy to utter just a few nasty words and cause someone pain and even harm.

The guy could have done real harm if he kept silent and used it maliciously, chose not to, and got suspended.

You can't just push through the physical symptoms of extreme stress and exhaustion, at least not without causing even more harm.

I didn't mean any harm - I'll make sure not to do that again if it's against policy" then that probably would have been the end of it.

The best you can do is balance the harms from pollution with the underlying beneficial activity.

As a non-American, apparently I'm already fair game, so there's no harm in using encryption.

Concepts like "justice" and "psychosis" are easy to throw around and are very practical, but their use is typically the root of more harm than good.

Harm in a sentence as a verb

The litigation system is very well suited for resolving "you versus me" disputes based on tangible harms.

Ultimately, the tone was that the risk was too great compared with the operational gain- almost like the soldier was too valuable to put in harm's way.

They do not reflect anything remotely like modern card capabilities, and their use directly causes harm to the ozone layer, kittens, and infants.

Zeroing an SSD is a costly behavior that, if not detected by the firmware, will harm the longevity of the SSD by dirtying its internal pages and its page cache.

I think the mental/emotional harm that this sort of fixation on 'startups' has on many people is understated - we mourn the loss of someone to *******, but say "he had other problems already".

On Page 29, he basically explains why we use regulation rather than property rights enforced through litigation to address environmental harms.

In addition to computer hacking/unauthorized access laws having unusually high maximum sentences vs other more more harmful offences.

I really admired the way the you spoke about the Holden Outerwear company; receiving a C&D is a hard thing, but you handled it in a respectful and classy way by casting in terms of "if this could cause a good company harm then we shouldn't move forward.

Scientists can do models and experiments and tell you that the statistically a given type of pollution will cause certain kinds of harm in a population, but they can't tell you whether any particular injured person was injured from a particular type of pollution.

Harm definitions

noun

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

See also: injury hurt trauma

noun

the occurrence of a change for the worse

See also: damage impairment

noun

the act of damaging something or someone

See also: damage hurt scathe

verb

cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system"