Sentence examples for benign practices from inspiring English sources
In diagnosing where the main blockage to more benign practices might lie, symposium participant Jamie Arbib, an investor and founder of the philanthropic foundation Tellus Mater, highlighted what is perhaps the most basic problem of all.
It shows great potential in reducing the need for energy- and resource-intensive manufacturing processes, which in turn reduces the amount of material required in the supply chain, and enables more environmentally benign practices.
No longer thought of as a business cost, environmentally benign practices are now viewed as a competitive advantage as companies seek to win both stockholders and customers.
For example, while methodological adaptationism has become and remained the standard approach in behavioral ecology, not all philosophers are convinced that this is an entirely benign practice – there are still concerns about the assumptions that this methodology requires (see, for example, Lewens, 2009; Lloyd, 2005).
That has made it harder to sort malign from benign business practices.
Today, masturbation may serve as a running joke on "Seinfeld," but few are willing to publicly defend it as "a morally innocent and socially benign sexual practice".
More benign in practice, in theory this is little different than the Soviets executing dissidents as spies after show trials or the Chinese using their courts to legally confine thinkers they disapprove of in mental institutions.
Until now, Twitter has been mostly benign in its practices, at least when it comes to users' speech.
Less than a year after the euro's debut, Mr. Duisenberg said the central bank practiced "benign neglect" when it came to exchange rates.
I've finally begun to practice benign neglect — the wordless shrug, the see-one-performance-not-all-of-them, or the questions about the game I didn't attend.
Once heavily criticized for suggesting that he practiced "benign neglect" of the euro's exchange rate, Mr. Duisenberg went out of his way to declare his unhappiness about the currency's value and his conviction that it would eventually bounce back.
