It ramped up the use of a law barring even benign support for organizations said to engage in terrorism, putting pressure on activities long thought to be protected by the First Amendment.
Last year, he joined the court's five more conservative members in rejecting a First Amendment challenge to a law that made it a crime to use speech to offer even benign support to terrorist organizations.
"At bottom," Chief Justice Roberts wrote, "plaintiffs simply disagree with the considered judgment of Congress and the executive that providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization — even seemingly benign support — bolsters the terrorist activities of that organization".
We also found that pilocytic astrocytomas of the brainstem are surprisingly not such a benign disease as supported by many authors [ 17- 19] with rapid progression especially in the first 20 months after diagnosis and stabilization in survival thereafter (see Figure 1a).
In this clinical scenario, observing the novel variant as the second variant would not support a benign classification of the novel variant (though it is also not considered support for a pathogenic classification without further evidence).
Nonetheless, the lack of segregation data, the nonexistence of functional data for this variant and the in silico prediction by PolyPhen of non-pathogenicity, support a benign outcome for this genetic change in AD pathogenicity.
(d) Axial positron emission tomography (PET)/CT without evidence of abnormal FDG-avid uptake supporting a benign process.
Pterygium is a benign disease of the supporting orbital tissue that can cause impairment of visual function.
Recently, senescent cells were identified in human melanocytic nevi, a benign, stable skin lesion, supporting its function as a long-term tumour-suppressive mechanism (Michaloglou et al, 2005).
In general, an allele frequency in a control population that is greater than expected for the disorder (Table 6) is considered strong support for a benign interpretation for a rare Mendelian disorder (BS1) or if over 5% then it is considered as stand-alone support (BA1).
–A benign background of economic growth supports corporate profitability.
