Sentence examples for harmless-sounding from inspiring English sources
Maybe the fact that the Germans refer to it as the harmless-sounding elfmeter (11 metre), while in the English language it sounds more like a punishment, holds the answer as to why the penalty shootout has proved to be England's downfall twice against Germany, at both the 1990 World Cup and Euro 96.
The harmless-sounding request to issue temporary waivers actually has enormous potential for abuse.
They shared a loan-sharking operation, a trucking concern and a harmless-sounding shop in Maspeth, Queens, J&S Cake, which sold baked goods.
Strange but true - a real world mineral with most of the chemical properties of kryptonite has been discovered in Serbia, and now reposes (disguised by the harmless-sounding moniker "jadarite") in the Natural History Museum's mineral hall.
But despite those harmless-sounding ingredients, it is highly toxic to biological agents, said Dr. Bruce Gingras, a research microbiologist at the I.I.T. Research Institute, which is affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Speaking at a Democratic National Committee fund-raiser, in Austin, he warned supporters that the Supreme Court's recent ruling in the Citizens United case — which struck down laws prohibiting direct corporate spending on campaigns — had made it even easier for big companies to hide behind "groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity".
"In spite of a harmless sounding rhetoric, the E-G8 Forum is a smokescreen to cover control of governments over the Internet," wrote Jérémie Zimmermann, a spokesman for La Quadrature du Net, a group that campaigns against restrictions on the Internet.
Don't be fooled by the harmless sounding name, this is the real thing.
An entourage of Fulbright and Jaworski attorneys turned a weapon of torture, "The Bull Hook," used by Ringling handlers with reckless disregard against the endangered Asian elephants into a harmless sounding "guide".
But a far greater danger to liberty is the mild-mannered, soft-spoken Bernie, a pleasant sounding seemingly harmless old man, who is in fact a demagogue who has barely held down a job, ever, and feeds class hatred, jealousy, and envy.
