Sentence examples for malign activity from inspiring English sources

"Regardless of whether there's an agreement or not, my expectation is that Iran will continue the malign activity across the Middle East that we have seen over the past several years," Marine General Joseph Dunford told the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last Thursday.

"The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe, including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine, supplying the Assad regime with material and weaponry as they bomb their own civilians, attempting to subvert Western democracies, and malicious cyber activities.

The Treasury Department imposed the sanctions against three companies owned by Deripaska almost 10 months ago because of Russia's "malign activity around the globe".

That company was sanctioned in April by the U.S. Treasury Department to punish Russia for meddling in the U.S. presidential election and other suspected "malign activity".

In April, Deripaska was slapped with sanctions by the U.S. for what the Treasury Department described as broad punishment for Russia's "worldwide malign activity," including, among other actions, "attempting to subvert Western democracies".

"Rather, the United States is taking these actions in response to the totality of the Russian government's ongoing and increasingly brazen pattern of malign activities across the world".

"We will work to deny the Iranian regime – and especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – funding for its malign activities, and oppose IRGC activities that extort the wealth of the Iranian people," said a White House statement.

"I would call it a broad strategy for the range of Iranian malign activities: financial materials, support for terror, destabilization in the region, especially Syria and Iraq and Yemen," said another senior administration official.           .

"I'm not sure we are in a position to assess that the Iranians would spend the vast majority of their windfall on the economy versus supporting malign activities in the region".

If known official stocks are destroyed, then we will know that any new cases of smallpox are the result of deliberate maligning activities.

Remove al-Qaeda, remove the malign Iranian activity, and the situation would be changed, even transformed.The truth is that the conflict in Iraq has mutated into something directly fuelled by the same elements that confront us everywhere.