What's the difference between harm and jeopardy?

Harm


Definition:

  • (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • (n.) That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • (n.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

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.

Jeopardy


Definition:

  • (n.) Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
  • (v. t.) To jeopardize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The governing body said then that Russia’s hosting of the 2018 tournament was not in jeopardy.
  • (2) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
  • (3) The disadvantage is that agents used to prevent thrombosis can place the hemostatic mechanism in jeopardy.
  • (4) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
  • (5) Five year survival was 97% in patients with a jeopardy score of 2 and 95, 85, 78, 75 and 56%, respectively, for patients with a jeopardy score of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12.
  • (6) He says his job is to ‘base search on really understanding what the language means’.The most successful example of natural-language processing to date is IBM’s computer Watson, which in 2011 went on the US quiz show Jeopardy and won (shown above).
  • (7) In light of the deterioration of Iraq in the past weeks, they extracted promises from Campbell to review the pace and scale of the administration's drawdown – a sign that Campbell's nomination is not in jeopardy – even as Campbell dismissed concerns that the Afghan military would prove as fragile in post-US Afghanistan as Iraq's did.
  • (8) Nato's exit strategy in Afghanistan appeared to be in serious jeopardy on Tuesday, after it emerged that the US military command had set fresh limits on joint operations with Afghan troops in the wake of a rapid increase of "green-on-blue attacks" involving local soldiers turning their guns on their foreign mentors.
  • (9) The second part of the article addresses issues pertaining to assessment of infant development and interventions provided for infants whose development may be in jeopardy.
  • (10) It does not take a scientist to explain that with this expansion things will be displaced, and it doesn't take a professor to work out that media studies and citizenship studies will be in jeopardy.
  • (11) However, the patients with an early peaking MB CK had myocardium in jeopardy as reflected by a higher incidence of ST segment depression and a decrement in the global left ventricular ejection fraction with exercise.
  • (12) The former patients appear to be in double jeopardy with respect to synchronous neoplasms, these being more prevalent and less accessible than in patients with non-occluding tumors.
  • (13) "Luzhkov and Baturina have only turned into democrats because their wealth is now in jeopardy," Milov suggested.
  • (14) But, look, this guy has done things that have damaged and put in jeopardy the lives and occupations of people in other parts of the world.
  • (15) An apparently well patient may be in great jeopardy while you are delivering the most skillful dental care unless adequate precautions are taken.
  • (16) Lederer, a physician, objects to this application of patient autonomy because it might place the surgeon in legal jeopardy of collusion in suicide and would undermine the principles of nonmaleficence and mutual trust.
  • (17) The left ventricular ejection fraction was more closely related to prognosis than was the jeopardy score.
  • (18) The message is clear: Clinton is the elderly grandmother who comes round for tea and biscuits and then has to be driven home when she falls asleep in front of Jeopardy.
  • (19) Cellino’s position as Leeds owner could therefore be in jeopardy as the Football League’s owners’ and directors’ test disqualifies individuals who “have unspent convictions for offences of dishonesty”.
  • (20) Social work practice, however, has historically been involved in community intervention and environmental manipulation to offset social and psychological jeopardy.