Fortunately, her lump proved to be benign.

Led by China and India, developing countries were prominent among the best performing economies, expanding by 6.5 on average in 2006. But can this apparently benign pattern of global growth be sustained, particularly since growth has been accompanied by ever widening global financial imbalances?

It all sort of started as a benign mistake, like penicillin.

How plausible is this argument? Can benign regulation really be bought?

First, any scientific discovery has benign consequences as well as dangerous ones.

The tumor in your leg is not consistent with a benign tumor.

Most people imagine orphanages as a benign environment that care for children.

Two stunt guys doing what I consider to be a rather benign stunt.

Benign advice now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution.

Surely we called upon Him before Surely He is the Benign, the Merciful.

Surely we called upon Him before Surely He is the Benign, the Merciful.

That will encourage the spread of relatively benign mutations of the most toxic varieties.

Formerly we had always prayed to Him. Surely He is Most Benign, Most Compassionate.

Formerly we had always prayed to Him. Surely He is Most Benign, Most Compassionate.

We used to supplicate Him aforetime. Indeed He is the All benign, the All merciful.

We used to supplicate Him aforetime. Indeed He is the All benign, the All merciful.

we were before ever calling upon Him surely He is the All benign, the All compassionate.'

we were before ever calling upon Him surely He is the All benign, the All compassionate.'

Lo! we used to pray unto Him of old. Lo! He is the Benign, the Merciful.

Lo! we used to pray unto Him of old. Lo! He is the Benign, the Merciful.

Newly developed tide energy technology was relatively inexpensive, ecologically benign and a reliable source of electricity.

The forces of nature can be benign, but at the same time destructive, unforgiving and unpredictable.

Verily we were wont to pray Unto Him aforetime verily He! it is He, the Benign, the Merciful.'

Verily we were wont to pray Unto Him aforetime verily He! it is He, the Benign, the Merciful.'

Indeed we used to worship Him in our previous life indeed He only is the Benign, the Most Merciful.

Indeed we used to worship Him in our previous life indeed He only is the Benign, the Most Merciful.

Bio and cybertechnologies are environmentally benign in that they offer marvelous prospects, while, nonetheless, reducing pressure on energy and resources.

They are not quite the pandemic that their explosive growth pattern resembles, but nor is their emergence completely benign. Those who would aim to emulate US productivity trends must come to grips with how they feel about big box stores sprouting across their countryside s, driving down wages and plowing under smaller scale retailers.

I'm not suggesting that obesity is benign, but what I am suggesting is it may be the lesser of two metabolic evils.

United Nations peacekeeping, in almost all theatres, is dangerous, no matter how benign and peaceful conditions may appear to be at certain times.

The April 2010 WEO forecast a UK annual growth rate of nearly 3 in 2012 2013 instead, GDP is likely to contract this year and increase by roughly 1 next year. Much of this costly divergence from the earlier projections can be attributed to the benign view of fiscal consolidation that UK authorities and the IMF shared.

But if the host needs to be mobile in order to transmit the pathogen, then it's the benign ones that tend to be the winners.

The second scenario is far less benign. In this case, it soon becomes clear that domestic support for the nuclear agreement was broad but thin.

Its presence is enough to support a benign self fulfilling prophecy. In other words, Draghi s bazooka has anesthetized markets, impairing their ability to assess risk.

So we have to keep plugging away, trying to correct the misapprehensions so that only the benign and useful variants of our ideas continue to spread.

Here's a classic example Rebecca has a benign blood vessel tumor that's growing out through her skull, has obliterated her nose, and she's having difficulty seeing.

And during the evolution of life on the Earth, it was the colonization of the land by plants that helped create the benign climate we currently enjoy.

Do you not see how God sends down water from the sky and in the morning the earth turns green? Truly God is benign and well informed.

When we think of marine protected areas for animals like dolphins, this means that we have to be quite conscious about activities that we thought were benign.

This woman is slowly dying because the benign tumors in her facial bones have completely obliterated her mouth and her nose so she can't breathe and eat.

Do you not see how God sends down water from the sky and in the morning the earth turns green? Truly God is benign and well informed.

The twentieth century s two most important conceptual innovations, totalitarianism and globalization, were originally Italian. The first term defined the tumultuous middle of the twentieth century, the latter its benign ending.

And it became ever clearer that economic growth doesn't automatically translate into social growth or human growth.

This is what happened in Ukraine in November 2004, with revolutionary consequences. It would be rash to assume that the outcome in Russia would be as benign as Ukraine s Orange Revolution.

It seems to mark humanity s retreat into infantilism. But if the douceur of sports can channel aggressive passions into benign, if trivial pursuits, why should we deny our star performers their heroic stature?