causing harm

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• harm´ful|ness — harm|ful «HAHRM fuhl», adjective. causing harm; injurious; hurtful: »harmful slander. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors (T. H. Huxley). SYNONYM(S): detrimental, deleterious, pernicious. –harm´ful|ly, adverb.… …   Useful english dictionary

• harm´ful|ly — harm|ful «HAHRM fuhl», adjective. causing harm; injurious; hurtful: »harmful slander. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors (T. H. Huxley). SYNONYM(S): detrimental, deleterious, pernicious. –harm´ful|ly, adverb.… …   Useful english dictionary

• harm|ful — «HAHRM fuhl», adjective. causing harm; injurious; hurtful: »harmful slander. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors (T. H. Huxley). SYNONYM(S): detrimental, deleterious, pernicious. –harm´ful|ly, adverb. –harm´ful|ness …   Useful english dictionary

• Harm principle — The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should only be limited to prevent harm to other individuals. John Stuart Mill first articulated this principle in On Liberty, where he argued that the only purpose for which power can be… …   Wikipedia

• causing environmental damage — injuring nature, causing harm to the natural environment …   English contemporary dictionary

• harm´less|ness — harm|less «HAHRM lihs», adjective. 1. causing no harm; not harmful; that would not harm anyone or anything: »harmless gossip, harmless as doves. SYNONYM(S): inoffensive, innocuous. 2. free from liability or loss, as by an agreement. 3. free from… …   Useful english dictionary

• harm´less|ly — harm|less «HAHRM lihs», adjective. 1. causing no harm; not harmful; that would not harm anyone or anything: »harmless gossip, harmless as doves. SYNONYM(S): inoffensive, innocuous. 2. free from liability or loss, as by an agreement. 3. free from… …   Useful english dictionary

• harm|less — «HAHRM lihs», adjective. 1. causing no harm; not harmful; that would not harm anyone or anything: »harmless gossip, harmless as doves. SYNONYM(S): inoffensive, innocuous. 2. free from liability or loss, as by an agreement. 3. free from harm or… …   Useful english dictionary

• Causing death by dangerous driving — is a statutory offence in England and Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is an aggravated form of dangerous driving. It is currently created by section 1 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (as substituted by the Road Traffic Act 1991) but,… …   Wikipedia

• harm — A contested concept, whose central cases include bodily injury and injury to one s central and legitimate interests. Harm has some connotations of permanence, so one might hurt oneself temporarily without harming oneself (stubbing one s toe, for… …   Philosophy dictionary

• Grievous bodily harm — For other uses, see Grievous Bodily Harm (disambiguation). Grievous bodily harm (often abbreviated to GBH) is a term of art used in English criminal law which has become synonymous with the offences that are created by sections 18 and 20 of the… …   Wikipedia