significant harm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandharm
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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harm
noun[U]
uk/hɑːm/us/hɑːrm/
physical or other injury ...
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(Definition ofsignificantandharmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Some might argue that anysignificantharmcounts as such a reason.
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The first understands conduct to impose a substantial threat if most instances of it causesignificantharm.
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Constables have considerable experience of assessingsignificantharm.
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I now come to the point aboutsignificantharm.
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He found that serious injury was rare following an incident as either intervention or luck tended to preventsignificantharmin the majority of cases.
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When a condition involves nosignificantharm, there is no disorder, even if there is an obvious dysfunction in naturally selected mechanisms.
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Ironically, the protective impulse to shield children entirely from harms of research participation has the potential to cause themsignificantharm.
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In cases (i)-(iv), terror per se is not only a less serious imposition thansignificantharm, it is also permissible.
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As a consequence, there are beneficencebased obligations on her part and her physician's part to the singleton fetus to avoidsignificantharmthat might result from the reduction.
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Such research might involve a minuscule likelihood ofsignificantharmor the certainty of a slight, transient harm, such as the discomfort of having a blood sample taken.
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For example, emergency and critical care professionals focus primarily on diminishing or removingsignificantharmthat presently exists and secondarily on preventing potential future harm from occurring.
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Indeed, it fearssignificantharmmay be done to the provision for them.
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The test is this: an applicant must be sufferingsignificantharm.
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There were very few gross deceptions likely to cause consumerssignificantharm.
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First, there is the lack of definition of "significantharm" in clause 54.
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These include the likelihood of the child sufferingsignificantharmin the future.
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It will now apply only in cases ofsignificantharm, or of pollution of controlled waters.
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She is aware of no evidence that this has caused any individual or companysignificantharm.
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In practice, that applies to circumstances in whichsignificantharmis caused.
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At what point does it become a potential threat, posingsignificantharmand to what?
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Perhaps he will be able to consider this further pressure against the business ofsignificantharm.
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It would also introduce the test ofsignificantharmbeing, or likely to be, caused.
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Those conditions are whether the child is suffering or likely to suffersignificantharm.
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In other words, the consequences of one person's belief as manifested in his actions and the potential effects of his actions on others includedsignificantharmto the others.
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Although their effects on beneficial mycorrhizae, rhizobia and free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria must be considered, evidence suggests that brassica residues will not causesignificantharmto these beneficial biota.
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