Opponents said they preferred a "regional approach" to homelessness, a benign-sounding argument that ignores King County's years of stalled efforts to fight homelessness.
In one recent column, he offered a rationale for why liberals should welcome a nativist like the White House policy staffer and speechwriter Stephen Miller at the table of the immigration debate, presenting several benign-sounding arguments for Miller's pretty gross position on the subject without ever letting slip whether he shares it.
The "benign state/wicked corporate" argument doesn't work in vast parts of a shrinking interconnected world where international human rights' checks and balances need to be applied without fear or favour.
Rahul Prabhakar Oxford, England John Cassidy's essay ably highlights problems with the financial-services industry, but his ending argument — that the benign postwar era can be attributed to financial repression — leaves out factors that contributed to the era's economic stability ("What Good Is Wall Street?," November 29th).
John Cassidy's essay ably highlights problems with the financial-services industry, but his ending argument — that the benign postwar era can be attributed to financial repression — leaves out factors that contributed to the era's economic stability ("What Good Is Wall Street?," November 29th).
Mr. Eisner, Disney's chief executive, took in these arguments with a benign smile.
A few days later, Dennis Ross, a former Mideast peace negotiator who was promoting his own book, "Statecraft," told the audience Walt's argument wasn't as benign as he made it out to be.
Anybody who's seen stage moms know that they can get into intense arguments over the most benign things.
But once the sovereign and her family begin to believe that they have an intrinsic importance and a duty to propagate a particular point of view, the argument that they are a benign curiosity is more difficult to sustain.
However, Song et al. do not provide arguments and/or proofs validating that benign clocks follow the same (or similar) distribution in practice.
