What's the difference between baneful and harmful?

Baneful


Definition:

  • (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They want government to listen to their message, but ignore counter arguments coming from campaigners, such as environmentalists, who have long been the bane of commercial lobbyists.
  • (2) 1-26 August, 1.30pm, Assembly Rooms, £10 Jane Bom-Bane Musical mechanical hat woman.
  • (3) By the end of the 1960s he had a considerable reputation as a novelist (his first, Charade, drawing on his Crown Film Unit experience, and unrelated to the movie, appeared in 1947) and playwright, and had played an important role in the abolition of the death penalty and the passage of the Theatres Act, which saw off that bane of the British stage, the Lord Chamberlain's power of censorship – not that his own work had ever been in danger from this quarter.
  • (4) They argue that an elected mayor is chosen by everyone, not just the councillors from the largest political group (37 Tories in Banes’s case).
  • (5) On 10 March the citizens of Bath and north-east Somerset (Banes) will get to vote in a referendum on whether they should be given the chance to elect their equivalent of London’s mayor, Boris Johnson.
  • (6) The ruling Tory party in Banes, along with the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Greens, have all united against.
  • (7) Predictably perhaps, Steve Jobs was ahead of the game when he said in 2010 at the launch of the iPad: “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” It is also reasonable to conclude that performing arts will no longer be the bane of parents who have traditionally told their artistic kids to “get a proper job”.
  • (8) Airbnb is a website that's fast becoming the bane of the hotel industry.
  • (9) Microbial infection of a corneal transplant is a complication that is a bane to all corneal surgeons, the sequelae of which can be devastating.
  • (10) As well as Forrest Bondurant in Lawless , the 34-year-old has played a number of men not to be messed with: the eponymous scourge of the British prison system in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2008 film Bronson ; a martial arts fighter in last year's Warrior ; and most recently the bull-necked villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises .
  • (11) Then there's the problem of English-speaking actors doing German accents, the bane of movies about the world wars since time immemorial.
  • (12) Two years later, a New York Times article noted: "Get-rich-quick and gambling was the bane of our life before the smash"; they were also what caused the "smash" itself in 1929.
  • (13) Reduction of P(p) temporarily arrested venous outflow since P(ve) < P(vne) < P(bane) for 30 sec.
  • (14) These data suggest that the cardioplegic baneful effect on cardiac function might be lost in the first 24 hours after surgery.
  • (15) They say the role would not work in a place like Banes, which is part-urban but also very rural.
  • (16) You overlook this and other absurdities because Bane is an entertaining villain.
  • (17) MTC has been shown to bind reversibly to the colchicine binding site of tubulin and to inhibit microtubule assembly in vitro (Andreu et al: Biochemistry 23:1742-1752, 1984; Bane et al: J. Biol.
  • (18) There's a great bit where they imagine a studio lackey asking Tom Hardy to make his Bane voice clearer on the set of The Dark Knight Rises ("Tom?
  • (19) Bane Case for : The Batman super-villain has been known to cause chaos at football games.
  • (20) Analysis of the early post-operative mortality causes and of the various post-operative myocardic complications did not reveal any baneful influence of this myocardic protection method.

Harmful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
  • (2) Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are important components of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, induce a number of host responses both beneficial and harmful.
  • (3) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
  • (4) I realise now that the drug is far less harmful then I believed at the time.
  • (5) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
  • (6) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
  • (8) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
  • (9) Repeat patients were more likely to threaten to harm others, have a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, conduct or oppositional disorder and be under the care of a child welfare agency.
  • (10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (12) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
  • (13) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (14) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
  • (15) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
  • (16) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
  • (17) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
  • (18) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
  • (19) Was the Dalkon Shield so harmful in the nulliparous woman?
  • (20) Education can increase compliance and sometimes modify harmful behavior.