Sentence examples for as a bane from inspiring English sources

Local and European elections due on June 4th are as much a boon as a bane for Mr Brown.

(Yes, LeBron James has already seen that photoshop with him as a Bane, he even retweeted it).

He sees public-employee unions as a bane to the taxpayer because they demand — and often win — generous health and pension plans that help push up taxes and drive budget deficits higher.

Eventually realising their intent, Sarah Jane brings them inside, with Davey, now as a Bane, giving chase.

While the destructive capabilities and even accuracy of the Scuds may be exaggerated, this is not: The vast oil slick that has accumulated around the city, thanks to seventy years of sloppy, Soviet-style on-shore extraction technique, is a wick ready to be lit, and the very minerals that brought the city to its present fame now look as much a bane as a boon.

These insects carry sleeping sickness, which is as much a bane of ungulates as it is of people.

Yet metaphor has been a bane as well as a bridge in the difficult business of talking about organisms radically different from us.

Tom Hardy as Bane: A militant revolutionary portraying himself as a "liberator", Bane is intent on destroying Gotham City.

Feig describes being an only child as a delight, not a bane.

The rise of the gaming industry in Mississippi has been perceived as both a benefit and a bane.

Such is the ambivalence that the cellphone engenders as both a boon and a bane of modern life at home or on the highway, a godsend when a traveler needs help or a parent calls a child at school with emergency instructions and an annoyance in other instances, such as when a boy in math class receives a call from his girlfriend in the cafeteria.