These price falls counterbalanced rising energy and services costs, to
keep average inflation figures benign.
Benign prostate hyperplasia
to deadly prostate cancer.
Direct electricity is the most
environmentally benign
fuel known to man.
These medium-sized mill towns breed a sordid viciousness which makes gangsters
seem as benign
as robin hood and the east side a cultural paradise.
Benign tumors
on their noses or ears.
To maintain trade which is mutually advantageous and
ecologically benign.
Despite the recent rises in raw material costs, the inflationary outlook in manufacturing
remains benign.
Benign prostate hypertrophy.
Last year's lisbon summit took place in the context of a
relatively benign
economic climate.
However, they
look benign
compared with levels of more than three million in the mid-1980s.
Benign tumor, miracle #2.
I've described this because at the same time, the southwest was having a
comparatively benign
winter with much lower rainfall.
The results indicate that there is no time during the first four post-operative weeks when seizures could be
considered benign.
Benign salivary gland neoplasm.
However, this
seemingly benign
improvement to local parking has, to my mind, highlighted a central contradiction in enlightenment notions of progress.
If the tumor does not do this it is
termed benign.
Benign breast lesions.
There are intentional creations of dangerous agents for
supposedly benign
purposes that turned out not to be so benign.
But that makes it
sound somehow too benign, too tame.
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