Sentence examples for benign proceedings from inspiring English sources

UBS also raised its recommendation on Amgen, citing "benign" proceedings on the drug maker's anemia treatments at the Food and Drug Administration.

The mood, which in a normal year reaches giddy expectation, was soured by the increasingly destructive conflict in Iraq and by pangs of conscience among film industry figures, and the event -- traditionally Hollywood's grandest -- was held against a backdrop of antiwar demonstrations just blocks away that threatened to further disrupt the usually benign proceedings.

Watch the proceedings, and it all seems pretty benign.

Indeed, this frantic eight-piece is more like a cross between a funk-soul revue and an abstract jazz troupe: with a comb wedged into his voluminous Afro, band leader Questlove surveys proceedings from behind his drums like a benign ringmaster.

Test cricket does not need a stalemate, but an anticipated combination of low crowds, draining heat and benign pitches could have such a tranquillising effect on proceedings that recriminations could feel just too much like hard work – at least until the first cry of "no-ball".

Because I do not find this issue to be material to the analyses I am called upon to undertake in connection with the political question doctrine, the government contractor defense, or the combatant activities exception, the parties' dispute over the definition of "benign" need not be resolved at this stage of these proceedings.

Benign neglect.

In a blind test published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in February, the team examined oxygen 18 signatures to identify four areas, Baton Rogue, La.; Columbus, Ohio Los Alamoss, N.M.; and Salt Lake City, where colleagues had grown benign cousins of anthrax.

Listened in on proceedings.

Tania recorded the proceedings.

Proceedings have been delayed.