Sentence examples for as a more benign from inspiring English sources

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.

The Pentagon investigation concluded that the official, Michael D. Furlong, set up an "unauthorized" intelligence network to collect information in both countries — some of which was fed to senior generals and used for strikes against militant groups — while masking the entire operation as a more benign information operations campaign.

So instead, they substituted the moniker "public option" as a more benign code word meaning the same thing.

On a number of occasions, President Bush has defined the war as an effort to bring about "regime change" in Baghdad, which sounds simple enough: Get rid of Saddam Hussein and his coterie and replace them, as soon as possible, with a more benign, proto-democratic government.

"Lord, what fools these mortals be," as Puck, a more benign identity-shifter, put it.

GO are determinants of a tumor's natural history, as it progresses from a more benign to a more advanced stage.

At the turn of the 21st century, the conservator's main intervention in the process of corrosion involved providing a more benign environment (usually meaning as dry as possible and as free of harmful pollutants as possible) and maintaining the sculpture's stability through a series of preventive maintenance procedures, such as regular cleaning and the application of protective coatings.

After slurrying and deposition within the ash pond, it has been demonstrated that the soluble mass is significantly lower and the ash can be considered as aged or "leached" ash — a more benign waste that meets the criteria for fill material.

In general, Shapiro sees Shakespeare in a more benign context as a lightning conductor for American political and economic culture.

I imagined them in a more benign incarnation, as farm boys back home in the Dominican Republic.

While China has stirred more concern here as a political and economic challenger, India has emerged as the country to beat in a more benign rivalry over education.