Sentence examples for benign rather than from inspiring English sources

Warmer periods bring benign rather than more violent weather.

Surprisingly, it can help if they are benign rather than evangelical to behavioral science.

At the Timberwolves game, the mood was gently benign rather than raucously enthusiastic.

In continental Europe the state is more often assumed to represent the collective will and wisdom of the people and is, in consequence, expected to be benign rather than malignant.

The criticism known as Base Rate fallacy states that when IDS raises an alarm, the event is more likely to be benign rather than intrusive since the proportion of benign activity is significantly larger than that of intrusive activity in the user population.

As the principal user of nature, humanity is responsible for ensuring that its environmental impacts are benign rather than catastrophic.

However, there is evidence that some of these symptoms can be common, 16 33 and most are likely to be indicative of benign disease rather than cancer; 34 so women, mainly, were correctly attributing their bodily changes to benign conditions.

She added: "This is benign neglect rather than malign neglect.

His central narrative is the rehabilitation of government as a benign force, rather than a dead hand hampering economic growth.

Even an "armchair traveller" who laps up travelogues by Michael Palin or Jonathan Dimbleby while never stirring further than Southwold is an object of benign contemplation rather than sharp rebuke.

To that end, he rightly says, the United States needs to act as a benign hegemon rather than as an isolationist or a despot.