Sentence examples for benign-sounding from inspiring English sources

Even benign-sounding parent education classes are controversial.

It's possible to overdose on something even as benign-sounding as neutrality.

The benign-sounding phrase, some argue, is a reasonable effort at balance.

TTIP is a rather benign-sounding acronym, standing for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

This benign-sounding investment model is on the up but it also carries some big risks that development analysts and advocates are only just starting to comprehend.

Foreign workers on residence permits must be "sponsored" – a benign-sounding word which in practice means they are tied to one employer.

Hidden among the plans, however, is a benign sounding "low prior achievement" factor that will give extra cash to pupils who receive low scores in their tests at primary school.

The benign sounding family resolution is in fact part of a larger effort by conservative organisations (many of them affiliated with the WCF), working in concert with conservative nations, to promote a restrictive model of the family that includes only one man and one woman, united for the sole purpose of procreation.

The idea that Lendl had strutted around barking orders, while Mauresmo provides a benign sounding board, is wide of the mark.

It is the world written about by Chris Hayes in Twilight of the Elites, where children are prepped to be members of the meritocracy, that benign sounding name for the ruling classes, which has gone from instrument of democratization to self-perpetuating mechanism within a generation.

Having introduced the benign sounding - bland even - Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has found himself under sustained and ferocious attack - because it seemed as though this bill was a licence for the businesses and organisations of Indiana to be able to say to people: "You're gay, and with my new religious freedom protection, I am not going to serve you".