What's the difference between harm and savior?

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.

Savior


Definition:

  • (v.) One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.
  • (v.) Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Marco Rubio , the Florida senator hailed in the aftermath of the 2012 election as the Republican party’s likely “savior”, suspended his bid to become the first Latino president of the United States on Tuesday.
  • (2) "We always had in mind that if someone from the media or someone would know that we're protesting inside on hunger strike, they would definitely help us and be our saviors and things would go better.
  • (3) Total quality management (TQM) is the newest in a long line of magic formulas which have been touted as saviors for American industry and medicine.
  • (4) International philanthropy and the western world’s desire to eradicate poverty and disease can’t ever truly rid themselves of their imperialist roots; as many critics have pointed out, the white savior industrial complex has never been more pervasive in global culture .
  • (5) So while he may sound like the nice savior who wants to save the children of gay couples in this line of questioning, he's perfectly capable of deciding in the end that Prop 8 should be upheld and is the best law of all time.
  • (6) The family keeps the traditional roles of victim an savior ready to overcome psychosocial crises.
  • (7) The outside world often forgets that the inland west is even there, leading some to turn to savior figures – such as the Bundys – who offer simplistic and bizarre solutions to entrenched problems.
  • (8) Chicago's would-be savior came through again on Saturday, his 75th minute finish into the top of Zac MacMath's net giving the Fire a crucial three points: Magee's six goals in 10 games for the Galaxy had many questioning whether LA was giving too much to get Robbie Rogers.
  • (9) The computer is neither the curse or the savior of the modern dietary department.
  • (10) Inner-city hospitals are both a financial burden and a community savior.
  • (11) Let me be clear about one thing – there’s only one savior and it’s not me,” he answered , somewhat eagerly.
  • (12) The sight of one putative savior, Danny Koevermans, on the verge of tears as he described the experience of playing for "the worst team in the world" during a nine game losing streak in 2012, became an emblematic image of what the Toronto project had become.
  • (13) He is the savior of an exceptional and divinely ordained nation, brought to the precipice of the Obama abyss.
  • (14) A Time magazine cover anointed him “The Republican Savior” and explored “How Marco Rubio became the new voice of the GOP”.
  • (15) Meet Alex Rodriguez - the savior of the little man Read more Rodriguez starred for the Yankees in several offensive categories last season after serving a year-long suspension for admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs.
  • (16) "We are disappointed with the government's lukewarm reaction," said Savior Mwambwa, executive director of the Centre for Trade Policy and Development, Zambia.
  • (17) He’s our hero, the gridiron savior riding in from the west (well, Hueytown, Alabama, anyway) to awaken Florida State football from its long spell of mediocrity, leading the Seminoles to their first national championship game in 15 years.
  • (18) The human tendency, when beset by problems such as these, is to seek a savior in the next new technology-networks in this case.
  • (19) In jail, the corrections officers (COs) are god and master, savior and executioner.
  • (20) To up the difficulty level, the best of the best must do so under heavy scrutiny as NBA draft experts move them up and down their imaginary rankings while fans of terrible teams either look at them either as potential saviors or likely busts.

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