Their optimistic faith in a benign cosmic purpose was not his to draw on.

If the president neglects the pardon power, it may become effectively unavailable to serve the benign purposes the framers envisioned for it.

McSlarrow laid down a harmony track: "any technology can be used for either benign or nefarious purposes."

The inspectors in Iraq concluded that the mobile units had not been used for making weapons and might have had some benign purpose.

That their aid may be employed to benign or malignant purposes, cannot be disproved.

It might have been mistaken for a fire extinguisher, and possibly might have started life with such a benign purpose.

Some experts, however, think the tubes are for benign purposes.

The new cosmic imaginary of a universe vast in time and space also argued against "a personal God or benign purpose."

Would it not be desirable to redirect the European tobacco-growing industry towards such benign purposes and to further promote this type of research?

Reyat insisted only the clock, relays and tuner had been purchased for other than "benign purposes".