Sentence examples for a benign activity from inspiring English sources
Playing with toys is a benign activity that requires little justification; using weapons against others nations is something that is usually only done after extensive deliberation and as a last resort.
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My older daughter just recently brought two pieces of "car candy" in her pocket to bribe her younger siblings not to sing in the back seat (a seemingly benign activity which they have managed to turn into a competition), so it's clear that someone learned something from the whole exercise.
But evidence found near the corpses suggested a more benign activity: the men were smugglers evading onerous Turkish and Iraqi customs duties on diesel and tobacco at the official crossing point of Habur.
Social scientists refer to these as "dilemma actions," because they force the authorities to choose between two equally distasteful alternatives: to stand back and allow such activities to continue, taking the risk that they will build into something significant; or to impose harsh punishment on people who are engaged in a seemingly benign activity.
"People think it's a very benign activity, [where] you just kind of float face down and everything happens," said Jim Howe, ocean safety chief of operations.
Jam-making by members of the Women's Institute is normally seen as a fun and essentially benign activity – not a way of killing Nazis.
"What is happening in Iraq highlights the lie to the age-old deception that antiquities trafficking is some benign activity," the reserve marine told the Guardian in Athens.
Yet even this benign activity in Ulster life did not spare it, and it was bombed and shut down twice during the three decades of sectarian conflict known as "the troubles".
The criticism known as Base Rate fallacy states that when IDS raises an alarm, the event is more likely to be benign rather than intrusive since the proportion of benign activity is significantly larger than that of intrusive activity in the user population.
Despite these criteria, the true malignant or benign activity of primary GISTs is unpredictable, as even small (< 1 cm) tumors may recur 10 years or more after diagnosis.
