Sentence examples for benign institutions from inspiring English sources

"People assume that the world is carefully regulated and that there are benign institutions guarding them from making any kind of errors.

Not so much the German investor, or even the European, but the unstoppable force that is the investor community as a whole, much of it participating through what we usually think of as wholly benign institutions such as pension funds.

The report of the commission, chaired by Judge Sean Ryan, undermines any defense that ill-treatment of children was the exception, or that the industrial schools were essentially benign institutions.

He paints Broadmoor as a benign institution, "a small village".

Mr. Hammond noted that many historians considered slavery in the North "this benign institution as opposed to the South".

Harry is committed to a mental hospital and then a more benign institution called Bethel, funded by Dr Gideon Ormshaw who uses hypnosis to open the closed doors of the mind.

White Southerners are entirely capable of believing that slavery was a benign institution while at the same time living on cordial terms with the African-American family next door, or for that matter with their African-American son-in-law.

The reconciliation of North and South required a national repudiation of Reconstruction as "a disastrous mistake"; a wide-ranging white acceptance of "Negro inferiority" and of white supremacy in the South; and a distorted view of slavery as an unfortunate but benign institution that was damaging for whites morally but helped civilize and Christianize "African savages".

Modern historians today consider Funck-Brentano's work slightly biased by his anti-Republican views, but his histories of the Bastille were highly influential and were largely responsible for establishing that the Bastille was a well-run, relatively benign institution.

As far as Rees is concerned, the most important outcome from the report would be an "acknowledgement that what we thought were benign, liberal institutions, actually are systematically, indirectly discriminating against women in every country".

If Broadmoor was "benign", this institution was "repressive" and we can only guess at how repressive because at 16 he ran away to London and refused to go back.