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Example sentences for: detriment

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Once on the bench, these judicial politicians (emboldened by their anything-goes common-law attitudes) will set about encoding the popular will into law, to the detriment of unpopular minorities.
(Though some diehard libertarians will object that the prosperity is an illusion, because governments that have been empowered to make us more prosperous will inevitably abuse that power to our detriment.)
Having an obviously high opinion of yourself threatens and alarms both peers and superiors, often to your ultimate detriment.
This idea that autistic brains are developing at warp speed, to their detriment, fits intriguingly well with what is known about treatment of autism—the earlier and more intense behavioral therapy an autistic child receives, the better the outcome will be.
A sidebar castigates the Clinton administration for championing the interests of drug companies to the detriment of public health by trying to prevent the sale of generic substitutes in developing nations.