Sentence examples for benign measures from inspiring English sources
But others were more pessimistic, noting that Congress is so mired in election-year politics that even such seemingly benign measures could be blocked.
Dr. Muriel Gillick, author of a recent journal article advocating that nursing homes and hospitals end the widespread use of stomach tubes to feed people with advanced Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, brings to light the necessity of re-evaluating widespread use of seemingly benign measures to prolong life (news article, Jan . 20.
Another Republican seat in the Grand Rapids area just got a little harder to hold, that of freshman Representative Justin Amash, whose claim to fame in the 112th Congress is voting no on just about every key piece of legislation, and plenty of benign measures, too.
Even more remarkably, the two parties are at an impasse on a formerly benign measure that has routinely passed with near unanimous bipartisan support, one that protects women from domestic violence.
MOSCOW--Is it a benign measure to prevent Russian scientists from unwittingly revealing state secrets, or a chilling return to Soviet-style authoritarianism?
A notice in the academy's weekly newsletter, Poisk, revealed that the internal directive has been superseded by a seemingly benign measure requiring scientists to inform superiors in writing about their foreign activities.
In a somewhat more benign measure, North Korea has agreed to permit reunions of families torn apart by the Korean War.
But Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who heads the Senate Republican re-election campaign and voted no today, played down the measure's significance, calling it a "relatively benign bill".
The patient had one benign tumor measuring 1.5*1.2 cm located in the uncinate process of pancreas.
It can be seen that malignant samples cover a larger distribution of values than the benign specimens measured.
We thus retain this variant as potentially deleterious, unlike Lys244Arg, which was characterized as benign by all measures.
