When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.
Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.
When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.
Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.
It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
Although cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.
I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.
I love skiing. What on earth have I been doing on a beach all this time? I mean, that's for morons - you can get sunburn and really damage yourself.
We don't necessarily ever dig into consequences, right? We have the violent act and then cinematically we tend to walk away and we forget that there's collateral damage.
I am still fairly confident we will come out better than the West in terms of our overall development versus damage.
And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
As usual sparring goes: men represent strikes, touch each other, but do not tend to cause real damage to the partner.
I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast
Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past.
Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.
Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible to all.
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.
The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.
John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.
If we continue to print new paychecks at the rate we've been adding them, that mitigates a lot of the damage of higher gasoline prices.
We sometimes become so obsessed with punishing villainous characters, that we forget the collateral damage is actually experienced by marginalized groups, and we shouldn't punish them for that.
Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.
I've colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it's going to do! I went blonde and lost all my baby hairs. I'm not coloring it anymore. Never again.
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
It's often my opponent's plan to take me into the later rounds, but the amount of damage that has accumulated on them means they don't hear the final bell.
We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails, designed to intimated voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump.
In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.
The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.
Mr. Putin has to understand that if he does something against us Belarusians, it will seriously damage the relationship between the Russian and Belarusian people.
Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage your brain.
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
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