Sentence examples for a benign relationship from inspiring English sources

But this Chinese leader is seen as having come around to the idea that China's overall foreign policy objectives depend on a benign relationship with Washington.

In chimpanzees the virus lives in a benign relationship within the immune system whereas in humans it infects and destroys helper T-cells.

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) maintain a benign relationship with their host and are only considered to be pathogenic when natural barriers are damaged, usually due to trauma or the implantation of medical devices [ 1, 2].

Most microbes have a benign symbiotic relationship with humans and only cause infections to healthy individuals under limited conditions.

"Coming Out Under Fire" (Free Press), published in 1990, explores the uneasy but at times surprisingly benign relationship between the United States military and its gay members.

The teenage Frank is deeply attached to Natalie and her children, but while his kindly, indulgent father takes a benign view of the relationship, the possessive Ruth, not without reason, sees the younger woman as a threat to her son's future.

Thus far, it has been a benign and friendly diversion, but I fear that our relationship is beginning to fray and that it is bringing out the curmudgeonly worst in me.

Their relationships — to each other, and to those around them — are now seen through a benign scrim.

Dr. Sulkowicz said that when he first entered a workplace, he usually found himself "the object of a benign, positive transference" -- in other words, the employees use him to recreate certain aspects of their relationships with their parents.

You need a benign dictatorship.

This is not a benign governmental power.