harm a hair on someone's head

Examples of harming

harming

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The point is that in neither case are we limiting the liberty of competent adults in order to keep them from harming themselves.
This meant that the model's outputs could become the basis of a consensus without the risk of that consensus harming exclusive pillared identities.
They exist in a situation where they are permitted the free fulfilment of their ' second nature ' without harming the innocent.
If he is not harming the others but only failing to benefit them as egalitarianism requires, what brings him within the jurisdiction of their egalitarianism?
If physicians allow themselves to be uncritically swept up in the wave of enthusiasm for so-called alternative medicine, they risk misinforming and harming their patients.
But there are two problems with the claim that harming the imperiled wrongdoer will cause more harm than good.
It holds that each of us must refrain from harming or causing pain to others and must respect others' free choices.
Like academics elsewhere, they are reluctant to strike for fear of harming their students.
It is difficult to reconcile this definition with an act deliberately aimed at harming one's patients.
Stopping "them" - from harming themselves, from threatening "us" - becomes especially urgent when race enters the equation.
Of course, on my account, tactics harming someone's property would have to be reasonably directed towards democratizing social and political relations.
In sum, except for the criminalization of "last-act" cases, inchoate criminality is largely preemptive, rather than a response to behavior that itself risks harming others.
Redundant items and items that were not clearly related to harming others were deleted.
On this view, a political community is always entitled (but not always thereby justified) to limit individual liberty to prevent wrongful harming.
Further research is needed to examine what family, child, or contextual variables may lead to the harming of older children.
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