Word: benign
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...reaction by most Sudanese to Gibbons' lenient sentence was mostly benign; still, the government's fears of a larger backlash bordered on paranoia. Riot police were deployed, and Internet access to some stories was denied. Lord Ahmed, one of a pair of British parliamentarians who traveled to Khartoum as private citizens - and as co-religionists with the Sudanese - to secure Gibbons' release, told TIME that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir admitted to them he was weighing a retrial - on stricter charges...
...It’s not going to be pleasant, because I don’t think the administration wants to see these committees revived,” Ragalie says. But, he adds, if the UC shies away from confronting the administration by attempting to preserve benign relations with administrators that have characterized the past few years, the result might be even more undesirable...
...hugging too hard. Many can't handle common noises or the feel of clothing on their skin. A number just seem clumsy. Adults can remember kids like these from their own childhood. They were the ones called losers, loners, klutzes and troublemakers. At STAR Center they wear a more benign label: children with sensory processing disorder...
...Somehow, between that dreadful break-up and now, I became hooked. What began as a benign emotional crutch is now a consuming physical and psychological addiction. If I go two or three waking hours without a smoke, my hands tremble and I become unbearably bitchy (even worse than PMS—God help...
...There’s a hidden assumption that if we do something, it’s good because we’re a benign superpower,” he said, saying this form of thinking dates to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson...