Sentence examples for benign activities from inspiring English sources

But states punished more benign activities too.

But for them, it turns out, "normal" is confined to benign activities like shopping or eating out.

Civil libertarians say it is so broadly worded that prosecutors could abuse it by labeling a range of benign activities material support.

It is high time to dampen it, or at least to channel it into benign activities like ping-pong.

Among the more benign activities the local residents engage in are deer hunting and poker playing, alongside the occasional dazed stare at a television screen.

And freedom from want might create scope for other socially benign activities, such as work or self-employment that generates some income, just not enough to live on.

"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.

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.

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".

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.