As fibrous dysplasia is typically a painless anomaly, the presence of pain should also alert the radiologist to the presence of a more sinister process.
He claims the role of national governments has become "extremely limited" and anyone that dares to criticise this "sinister process" is quickly smeared.
But the mayor's supporters see a more sinister process at work.
Yet there are also oblique hints of more sinister processes at work.
Sometimes the process of joining a fraternity includes more secret – more sinister – elements that test a person's manliness, endurance, ability to withstand pain.
In no other area of government would such a sinister sidestepping of democratic process be tolerated".
They can enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways.
Once these had been swept away there was nothing to check the twin processes of centralization and social leveling, which Tocqueville had come to see as the sinister confederates of the democratic revolution.
Like so many other embattled leaders in the region, Mr. Morsi sometimes blamed the ferment on some undefined sinister conspiracy instead of the yearning of all Egyptians, not just Islamists, to be part of the political process.
In the West however more sinister stereotypes of China persist.
