Sentence examples for benign interest from inspiring English sources

Perhaps somebody up there really is taking a benign interest.

But that needs decades of high growth, tight budgets and benign interest rates.

The effect on Britain was benign: interest rates were slashed, austerity eased and – with the pound devalued – exports recovered.

Banks responded to the more benign interest rate environment by shifting activity back to borrowing short and lending long.

While Kiwi's manager, Carl Jenks, is a petty tyrant, his co-worker Vijay is a self-assured pothead who takes a benign interest in the new boy's re-education.

The UK: With the economy facing challenges, the banking sector remains vulnerable: the highly leveraged economy is benefiting greatly from the benign interest rate environment, but the threat of a doubledip recession (in case of a fiscal tightening that is too harsh) or increased funding costs for the banks and the sovereign (in the opposite case) remain.

Although defaults are falling, this is largely because the economy is benign and interest rates very low.

With the aim of developing a process of biodiesel production that is environmentally benign much interest has been focused on the use of solid base catalysts, such as calcium oxide, for the transesterification of vegetable oils with methanol.

And the USS Enterprise, on a mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before," pursued a seemingly benign anthropological interest in seeking out, engaging with, and trying to understand the native populations of a fascinating variety of distant worlds.

Mr Pontellier watches his wife and Robert with a benign lack of interest.

I saw him from time to time in London or in the South of France, and he continued to keep up a benign, though distant, interest in my fate.