Sentence examples for benign purpose from inspiring English sources

I don't think it is for a benign purpose.

It turns out that the collective amnesia of the dragon's breath may have a more benign purpose than we first thought.

The inspectors in Iraq concluded that the mobile units had not been used for making weapons and might have had some benign purpose.

A decade later drones were being mooted for a far more benign purpose: as a means of delivering Amazon orders "straight to your porch".

It could be the chubby cousin of one of the laser-wielding AT-AT killing machines from Star Wars, but it has a more benign purpose.

"It was felt that the benign purpose of the survey would spread quickly by word of mouth among households, thus lessening risk to interviewers," it said.

The dancers who assemble out of the fog do so for their own enigmatic, but presumably benign, purposes.

Claims that once seemed elementary -- above all, claims relating to the essentially benign purposes of American power -- now appeared preposterous".

She also had friends in high places in the military and political spheres; and was not averse to using these contacts for less than benign purposes.

"If everybody was a good citizen and used it for benign purposes, you'd have no problem," said Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America.

Neuromarketing is a tool to amplify these trends".Dr Quartz counters that neuromarketing techniques could equally be used for benign purposes.