Sentence examples for harmless incident from inspiring English sources

Anning's violent response to what appeared to be a harmless incident made viewers around the world rally around "egg boy" even more.

Except for a handful of characters, the novel is populated by allegorical cartoons -- the wily Russian Mr. Vladimir, the meddling flatfoot Chief Inspector Heat, the haughty British aristocrat Sir Ethelred -- and the plot, deliberately small-scale, is based on a real-life, fairly harmless incident that occurred when an anarchist tried to blow up the Royal Observatory in 1894.

This strategy seemed to be working alright until Abu Omar got news of the completely harmless incident and succeeded in once again making the appalling al-Qaida agenda into a greater Muslim cause in the minds of many Scandinavians, with repercussions for all the Muslims whose religious beliefs wrongly are being depicted as incompatible with western democracy.

By the first week of November, there had been 168 such harmless incidents in Churchill this year.

You find the incident harmless enough.

While some said the figures were reminiscent of Sara Baartman, also known as "Hottentot Venus" and the fetishizing of black, female bodies, others made comparisons to the Wayans brothers' movie "White Chicks" calling the incident harmless entertainment.

K.D., Philadelphia While there could be harmless explanations for these incidents, they do sound a little like scenes from a sinister Shirley Jackson short story.

Statistically, black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, in a school-to-prison pipeline in which policies like "zero tolerance" and the use of law enforcement for school discipline create an atmosphere where nearly all classroom incidents from harmless to severe are treated with the same level of criminalization.

Statistically, black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, in a school-to-prison pipeline in which policies like "zero tolerance" and the use of law enforcement for school discipline create an atmosphere where nearly all classroom incidents from harmless to severe are treated with the same level of criminalization. .

It was a reminder -- though a harmless one -- of an incident on the campaign trail in early September, when Mr. Bush, standing near a microphone that he did not realize was live, uttered a vulgarity about a reporter.

The chief executives portrayed the incident as a harmless mistake, and the planned announcement came about two hours later.