Sentence examples for benign efforts from inspiring English sources

The ruling was the culmination of a series of charges that had been brought against the company in the course of several years, during which the N.L.R.B. struck down multiple T-Mobile policies that appeared to hamper union organization and other, more benign efforts to discuss employment practices.

They focus on the state of Catalonia "where everyone is tired of fighting" and the region's relatively benign efforts for greater autonomy.

In the face of withering criticism from progressives and civil rights activists, Connerly forcefully argued that benign efforts to remedy past discrimination had morphed into crude quotas that would allow "the son of a black four-star general [to] receive a preference over the daughter of an Asian dishwasher".

The Fair Housing Act of 1968, the introduction of Section 8 housing vouchers in the 1980s, and the demolition of distressed public housing in the 1990s were all part of a benign effort to de-concentrate poverty and open suburbia to low-income households, especially members of minority groups, who had been excluded for generations.

It is difficult to believe that anyone who has witnessed industry's relentless and deceptive attacks on the rule actually believes this is a benign effort that would strengthen DOL's hand.

Those are among the more benign American efforts to intervene in the domestic politics of nations around the globe, activities that have been revealed in declassified documents, memoirs and records of Congressional hearings.

The strong Goldman showing this year does so much to reassure me of the benign and worthwhile efforts of Bilderberg.

Surely those of us who listen to King's prescient words in his famous SCLC speech ("Where do we Go from Here: Chaos or Community?") understand that peace is the realization of justice, not the brutal repression or benign neglect of efforts to achieve it.

"We haven't endorsed the idea, but we haven't actively dissuaded people, either," he said, calling this benign neglect "our effort to help community spirit".

Although electroplating systems are environmentally much more benign than before, significant efforts are needed to ensure economic, environmental, and social sustainability, especially in the globally highly competitive environment.

In Laikipia, there is evidence of conservation 'success' dealt through seemingly benign conservation and development efforts.