Sentence examples for the less benign from inspiring English sources

The less benign can cause lethal diseases.

This imperial ostentation is countered in adjacent galleries by textiles that expose the less benign side of global trade.

One of the less benign features of the Internet age is the way the Web encourages extreme, bullying behavior among users.

The Patti LuPone we meet in these pages has earned her reputation as a diva (in the benign sense) through her big talent, willingness to take risks and sheer persistence, and her reputation as a diva (in the less benign sense) more out of nerves, actorly integrity and ill fortune than blinkered egotism.

As examples of the less benign -- and worrisome -- side of the U.S. effort, Volman cites the raids on Somalia, the military presence in Djibouti (acknowledged by DoD in 2002 as a launching pad for antiterrorism operations), and the administration's request for more funding for arms sales to Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, and Sao Tome.

Reasons for this include "staying connected so they don't miss out" and even the less-benign "making friends jealous with travel updates" But, who is really missing the vacation?

This radicalism ranges from the relatively benign Salafism of Qatar and the considerably less benign Salafism of Saudi Arabia to the more anti-Western manifestations of the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State.

Reread later in life, they became a warming antidote to the altogether less benign struggles I experienced as a correspondent for this newspaper in Moscow during the closing years of the cold war.

Given the often horrific nature of the old regime, and the common interest that the people, including the peasants, might have had with the more or less benign new regime, or at least with the promise of modernization, why did they resist so fiercely?

He had seen the virgin wilderness subject to a lot of change: ecotourism arrived in the early 2000s, following less benign incomers in the shape of oil companies.

In October 1993, when a similar coalition of reformers and skull-crackers prevailed over the rebels holed up in Russia's parliament, the result was less benign than it initially seemed: the security chiefs who helped Mr Yeltsin shell Moscow's White House then went on catastrophically to bash the Chechens.This time, too, the strategy of police-backed economic reform faces risks.