Sentence examples for benign but not from inspiring English sources

In short, Smith understood that the invisible hand is often benign, but not always.

"Community police" initiatives may sound fairly benign, but not in this context: at the time, Sri Lanka was a war-torn country where the majority Sinhalese population was carrying out a genocidal assault on the minority Tamil people.

I appreciate that some older Asian Americans grew up with the name and are accustomed to it, as some older African Americans will call themselves "Negroes". I surmise that there is a sliding scale of sorts here: "chink," "jap" and "gook" are racial slurs, which are difficult for anyone to utter without intending offense; "Oriental" is more benign but not innocent.

The inter-specific association of epiphyte and host/support plant may be benign, but not always so (e.g., the strangling fig, mentioned earlier).

This finding is somewhat similar to the enhanced HAS3 mRNA level observed in benign, but not in malignant ovarian tumors [ 25].

Only Kolb et al., 2002 [ 48] reported a follow-up period of at least one year (up to the next screening exam) for all benign, but not for the negative findings.

Based on our experimental results, ACC, a common tumor of the adrenal cortex, should be considered at least potentially malignant, while adrenocortical hyperplasia is not only benign but also not considered a tumor but rather an aggregation of unusual cell clusters.

Irons shares with Royal some sensibility – "I have the natural tendency of a, hopefully benign, dictator" – but not an aesthetic.

In another study, van de Ven found that students who felt benign envy, but not malicious envy or admiration, performed better on a test of creativity, the remote associates task: they were able to provide, on average, 11.4 correct answers, as compared to 9.8 when they felt admiration, and 8.5 when they felt malicious envy.

CONCLUSION: The results of this large, independent, propensity-matched study suggest that the use of BMP in lumbar fusions is associated with a significantly higher rate of benign neoplasms, but not malignancies.

The VEGFA-induced proliferative stimuli were abolished after KDR inhibition in benign meningiomas but not in IOMM-Lee cells.