• The state is tempted to step in, not only because of the harm that smokers, lushes, spendthrifts and gluttons may do to others, but because of the harm they are doing to themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Soft paternalism

  • The public also has shown the desire for the tradition to cease, both because of the physical harm to the bridge and because many view the locks as an eyesore.

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  • The company will pay a price but it is necessary because it caused the harm.

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  • At the time, CIA officials said the tapes were destroyed because they could harm the security of agency interrogators and inflame sentiment in the Muslim world.

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  • The Fed argued against disclosing the information because it might harm banks on the list.

    FORBES: Public, 2; Fed, 0

  • Judge Gross ruled the prohibition was not valid during a bankruptcy because it would harm the creditors' ability to gain the highest return from the sale.

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  • "However, the true cost of adverse incidents remains unknown because the treatment costs of remedying the harm caused to patients or clients are not routinely measured, " the office added.

    BBC: Surgeon

  • However, in a letter to the assembly's petitions committee, a minister says the regulations were made because of the "physical and mental harm that could occur with the use of devices such as 'invisible' electric fences".

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  • Perez, speaking last week, said roughly 10, 000 victims allegedly steered into subprime loans will receive more compensation because they suffered the greatest harm, potentially paying tens of thousands of dollars more for their loans.

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  • Dena Davis, a law and ethics professor at Cleveland State University and the legal consultant on the AAP's policy review, says that she personally favours considering a symbolic cut, because of the potential for harm reduction.

    ECONOMIST: Female genital cutting

  • Again, the action was taken because the failure would have done such great harm to the American economy, to the American financial system, and to the American people.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • This could include posts made by drunk people who, on sobering up, take swift action to delete the communication because they are genuinely sorry for the offence or harm they caused.

    BBC: Prosecutors clarify offensive online posts law

  • And that's the problem with an approach that gives massive tax cuts to the wealthy, and it's also the problem with an approach that arbitrarily cuts spending for in the way that the sequester does, because it causes great harm to people who should not be bearing the burden of this on their own.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • Antitrust authorities in India or Australia may fear that the merger will harm their consumers, but because little of the two firms' business is in their countries be powerless to act.

    ECONOMIST: Co-operate on competition

  • But what he described is really no harm because of the peculiarities of current South African life and the sort of socio-economic divides that they have (which controls who even has access to stores like Wal-mart).

    FORBES: Why Wal-Mart Is Bad News For Africa

  • Justice Department officials coordinated the timing of their lawsuit with the local case because they thought there would be "irreparable harm" if the mosque were not allowed to open for Ramadan, spokesman Mitchell Rivard said.

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  • He said he simply forgot to move the cup out of harm's reach because he became preoccupied with putting out the family waste bins and the childcare routine.

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  • Most federal cases now involve plaintiffs who claim they suffered a specific harm because of something the defendant did.

    FORBES: "Sleeper" Case Asks Whether Plaintiffs Can Sue Without An Injury

  • However, she warns that persistent daily drinking is likely to harm the liver because it gets no time to recover from the toxin.

    BBC: Propping up a prime minister

  • Moreover, Second Mile's attorneys argued that the plaintiffs had failed to show any "immediate or irreparable harm, " because there is no evidence that the charity is transferring its assets.

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  • The U.N. decided to move Taylor's trial from Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, to the Hague last year because of concerns that Taylor's presence would harm stability and security in the region.

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  • Fed meddling is not needed because it can do real harm to the real economy.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Katabarwa also has stories of people inflicting harm upon themselves because of the itchiness.

    CNN: With river blindness, 'you never sleep'

  • Many women fear that, if they cannot eat because of sickness, they will harm the foetus, but research shows this to be unfounded.

    BBC: Pregnancy wreaks havoc on the female body.

  • Because they are so widespread, the total harm caused to teenagers by alcohol and tobacco is much greater than the total harm caused by harder drugs.

    ECONOMIST: But efforts to warn people off drugs are still too timid

  • But I do believe that some of the proposals which said, "Well, let's just suspend fair value accounting completely, " would have done more harm to the marketplace because it would have created even greater uncertainty as to the values that we're showing.

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  • It worries me because I don't want him to do anything to hurt himself, and it worries me because encouraging self-harm is one of the most common things that genuine psychotic "voices" tell people.

    CNN: Is my 10-year-old hearing voices serious?

  • The interior-design profession is regulated because the designers provide services that carry substantial risk of harm if performed by unqualified people.

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  • An article concerning a company's financial difficulty must be handled very carefully, with a sense of balance, because of its potential to inflict great harm upon the subject.

    ECONOMIST: Strategic alliances

  • Because you're going to harm them more over the long term.

    FORBES: Get Briefed: P. Brett Hammond

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