Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allen S. Weiner ("An Insane Verdict," November 15, 1982) worries that a proposed guilty-but-mentally-ill verdict will encourage a jury to compromise unfairly to the detriment of the individual and of society. I agree with him. But, more fundamentally, I disagree both with the proposed guilty-but-mentally-ill verdict and with the insanity defense itself, which he accepts...
Celebrity status--and national prominence--has in no way been a detriment to Gompers' adjustment to Harvard...
...many, France seems to be playing the "oil card" in the Middle East, to the detriment of the Jews. The French must import 75 percent of their energy, so self-interest often supersedes morality, and the French often come across as avidly anti-Israel...
Larry Maglott, another artists in the area, voiced similar complaints about the current situation. "Working people are being displaced by economic pressures. The neighborhood is changing. It's happening right now, and this will ultimately be to the detriment of the city because soon all the artists will leave...
...church of the majority of Americans is the church of comfortable people, and, in some sense, of oppressors. It will be much more difficult to move this church to moral action, for doing so will not be in its material interest; if anything, it will be to its material detriment. A new theology will come to the white American church, if it comes at all, not because the people need it, but because it is right. Some moral revelation, some moral passion, must somehow gain acceptance, not just in the organized church but among a great many-among most-Americans...