Sentence examples for a benign act from inspiring English sources

I hope these allegations prove to be a misinterpretation of a benign act: a player trying to help his teammates by advancing information.

The serialisation was a benign act of nepotism by one of the magazine's editors, Maxime Du Camp, towards an old friend of his from student days, Gustave Flaubert.

In retrospect I feel immense gratitude for her efforts, which transformed a benign act of love into a memorable and treasured event rather than one with potentially disastrous consequences for two teenagers in love.

Not only does money often fuel addictions to drugs and drink (usually super-strength lager and cider), it also delays people seeking or accepting help with addiction or other health problems and moving off the streets, according to Thames Reach's online advice, which says: "Giving to people who beg is not a benign act.

While patients and their relatives may want to delay or avoid conversations that discuss death directly, this isn't a benign act of self-preservation.

This collective retweeting of information is a curiously benign act that can have far-reaching consequences.

He added that the case worries him, because if it gets significant publicity and informs what many people believe assisted suicide is, they'll see it as a more benign act than he believes they should.

Also, in a fun but benign act of rebellion, all these entities are drafting a proposal for the United Nations that would make some cities, states, and companies a party to the agreement regardless of the US withdrawal.

Having such a powerful numbing substance literally at your fingertips is a very insidious, yet seemingly benign, act.

A billion years from now, when the Earth has become a mere nugget of scorched matter, curious eyes may pore over "The Last Pictures" and wonder at the population that made it so, though these viewers will have a few inexplicably benign acts to consider too: an aquarium keeper bowing to a whale in her charge, a surfer, someone licking an ice cream cone.

Dr Robert Parker, director of psychiatry for the Northern Territory, who lived on Tiwi for three years, told us this supposedly benign act had catastrophic consequences.