greatest harm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandharm
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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harm
noun[U]
uk/hɑːm/us/hɑːrm/
physical or other injury ...
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(Definition ofgreatandharmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thegreatestharmis very often done to the consumer.
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The corollary of that surely is that thegreatestharmcould arise from withholding information.
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As always, thegreatestharmaffects the less fortunate, the poor and those of limited means.
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That is doing the life of our countries thegreatestharmin every respect.
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She said that it has done thegreatestharmto housing.
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Like us, they prioritise their enforcement effort against the drugs that cause thegreatestharm.
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I know that to leave his speech out is thegreatestharmthat a newspaper can do to a politician.
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It is by the publication in the local paper of the smallest wills that thegreatestharmand pain is often caused.
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Obviously, thegreatestharmcan be done to the children who are most backward and least endowed socially, intellectually or educationally.
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It is at that moment that one is likely, inadvertently, to do thegreatestharmto the most valuable elements in the community.
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We must recognise that the overwhelming evidence is that thegreatestharmthat happens to children is perpetrated in the home.
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I take the view that the atmosphere they generate causes thegreatestharmto the morale of the law-abiding population.
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He called the state a soulless machine which, ultimately, does thegreatestharmto mankind.
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It would do the police thegreatestharmif they were under the pressure of numbers and could not respond properly to the problems of the public.
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We were then placed in a position of the greatest difficulty and of thegreatestharmin regard to some of the largest of our industries.
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I believe that my noble friend is right to focus on the matter of journalism because this clause can do thegreatestharmto that profession.
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I believe that if what has been suggested did happen it would do thegreatestharmnot only to the agricultural industry but to the nation.
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