The phrase "benign outcome" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a positive and non-threatening result or consequence. Example: "The doctor assured me that the tests showed a benign outcome, which relieved my anxiety about my health."
We have a massive interest in a benign outcome.
The universities get some press coverage, which is a fairly benign outcome.
But the prospects for such a benign outcome don't seem good.
These shortcomings, the statement says, "deprived Mr. Magnitsky of a benign outcome".
A recapitalisation of the banking system followed by an orderly default in Greece looks like a benign outcome for insurers, particularly relative to the banks.
However, the fund warned that this (relatively) benign outcome depended on interest rates falling and a country's currency depreciating to boost exports.
I often hear that any concession to benign outcomes (or, more accurately, outcomes that remain benign for a relatively long time) will foster complacency.
In my work as a psychiatrist, I have read research on psilocybin — the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms" — that is at odds with the benign outcomes he mentions in his piece.
While this investment has not always led to benign outcomes (the financial crisis of the previous decade was, in part, caused by all that cash from all over the world seeking returns in the U.S ., shutting down global trade would, necessarily, also shut down this investment.
(Their economies may also shift gear, from making steel or chemicals to turning out computer chips).But the link between growth and environmentally benign outcomes is much less clear, the study suggests, when it comes to the sort of pollution that fouls up nature (such as acid rain, which poisons lakes and forests) as opposed to directly killing human beings.
Even technologists who should know better, with the honorable exception of Martin Ford and a few others, see only the benign outcomes.
