The minimalist campaign goals of Bush the father presaged a minimalist presidency--one guided more by a patrician instinct to "do no harm" than a burning desire to accomplish anything in particular.
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It's a way to potentially cut the waste out of our health system, and also reminds doctors of a promise they make to each and every patient: a promise to do no harm.
I'm reminded very much -- if you look at the quite similar parallel cases between Abdulmutallab and Richard Reid, obviously spaced some years apart, but each trying to do harm to a transatlantic flight using similar chemicals, decisions were made by the previous administration after looking at all of the factors involved to enter Richard Reid into our civil justice system.
It is impossible to say with certainty how bad the 21st century's heating will be, but there is a large chance of it getting hot enough to do harm, and a far from trivial chance of things turning catastrophic.
It takes weeks to read, weighs as much as a Sunday roast and might do real harm if thrown from a moving vehicle or hurled (as impatient readers may wish to do around the 700-page mark) willy-nilly from an upper-storey window.
Exaggerated praise can do harm, according to a study of 313 children ages 8 to 13 published this month in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
The virtuous 60, chosen among Canada's largest companies, will have passed tests designed to reflect the current standards of a small but growing number of investors who want their money to be a force for good (or at least to do no harm).
This highlights a tough dilemma in drug safety: what to do about drugs that help many but harm a few.
Indeed, a forced devaluation may do much more harm to investor confidence than continuous exchange-rate fluctuations.
Travellers who do visit Belize, whether on a cruise or on a longer stay, can do their part to minimize their environmental harm and maximize their economic benefit.
Part of Thain's job, like that of a good physician, is to do no harm.
It can do him no harm just now to cut a figure of seemingly Olympian calm as the embattled Mr Kohl huffs and puffs.
As one grower told a reporter, few things could do more harm to the state's citrus industry (not to mention people's breakfasts) than to have a consumer cut into a Florida orange one morning and find maggots.
Why should a parent be able to do things which might harm the child?
What could eurozone governments do to minimise the harm from such a banking debacle?
He said "a general risk of disclosure would do serious harm" to the decision-making process.
But Americans who think a vastly expanded federal government is likely to do more harm than good should think twice.
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It is a dangerous world: Calculating people wish to do us harm.
Again, let me make clear: this government will do nothing to harm Britain's status as a magnet for the world's best students.
They fear that by blurring the boundary between health and disease, DSM-V loses sight of a doctor's first duty: to do no harm.
The threat of an EMP attack is hardly the only reason for ensuring that ballistic missiles cannot be used to do harm to this country, but it is a particularly compelling one.
The most important thing I am factoring in is trying to make sure that we don't do harm to Rutgers University, because we are a small slice of the pie here at this great place.
In essence, they were recommending a high-tech Hippocratic oath: First, do no harm (to the Internet).
Deutsche Bank reckons that even South Korea, whose exports compete more directly with Japan than do China's, is unlikely to suffer much harm from a weaker yen.
Unlike the criminal, he may not intend to do damage, but he poses a threat of physical harm that is clear, present, and objectively demonstrable.
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All of this suggests that although there is a strong case for a more system-wide approach to oversight, it could do more harm than good if poorly crafted.
Speaker Boehner just a few weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal said it would do harm to our national defense and would cost thousands of jobs.
An analysis of nine medical trials involving over 100, 000 people without a history of cardiovascular disease found that aspirin was more likely to do them harm than good.
Others believe that they would work, but would do more harm than good by encouraging Iranians to rally around the government at a time when the protest movement looks as though it might just bring about change.
It's a national security issue to protect our borders from those who wish to do us harm.
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