Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours. |
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Manifest in the two friends' fortunes is the malign effect of commercialism. |
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Weather looks like chance, but some think it's a malign force determined to rout them. |
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He did not set out to falsely malign anyone or advance some hidden political agenda. |
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The place is populated by endearing eccentrics who eat seal-flipper pie and brood darkly on the sea's malign nature. |
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The humanity of the characters is never totally eclipsed by their more malign traits. |
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Politicians concern themselves predominantly and directly with the malign influence that broadcasting might exert on its audiences. |
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Even from beyond the legislative grave, Section 28 continues to exercise its malign influence. |
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The piece centred on the malign effect he believes environmental sceptics have on discussion of pollution and industrialisation. |
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The American Empire emerges, then, not as a complex phenomenon with some good effects and some malign ones. |
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But what of the few, the very few, who are not allowed to watch TV, whose elders have decided that it is a malign influence? |
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In that climate of malign neglect, the bureau's ills were allowed to fester. |
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We should not believe that this malign aspect of human nature which sleeps in all of us has gone away or will ever go away. |
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Racism of some kind is just about universal but some forms are much more malign than others. |
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In the poorest parts of the world, such images are said to have a particularly malign influence. |
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Why were the Lanarkshire whistle-blowers accused of malign intent for demanding early action? |
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But it was no match for the malign tumor, first detected just last spring, his colleagues said. |
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Therapeutic measures such as bleeding and purging, designed originally to get rid or excess or malign humours, continued to be used. |
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Scunnered with the malign Scottish press, scunnered with his own backbenchers, scunnered with the amateurism and ineptness of the parliament. |
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In a prolific string of books and articles, he now regularly bashes globalization, especially America's malign influence thereon. |
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No, I believe the whole thing is a dastardly plot to malign and traduce a great man. |
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This derives from a malign mix of undigested social psychology and post-1960s social relativism. |
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But it must not be supposed that reason is malign, the furtherer of ill counsels only. |
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Unless appropriate checks and balances are constructed, we'll inevitably end up with a malign despotism. |
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The double agent recognises that intelligence can never be perfect, and those who hold intelligence cast a malign, powerful shadow. |
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He saw him as a principled man who openly spoke out his thoughts on any issue of the nation, but never wishing to malign or discredit others. |
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They were there with their control collar ready to make me malleable to their malign manipulations. |
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There follows a succession of adventures, dangers, narrow escapes from death, and general blows of malign Fate. |
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Fears that the euro project is part of some malign plot to foist an unaccountable European superstate upon EU members must be addressed. |
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The figures suggest strung puppets, and underline the subjects' impotence as playthings of a malign destiny. |
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And doubtless in surveying American culture our pitiless foe finds much evidence to support such a malign view. |
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Let me suppose, for example, that some modern 'Hobbes,' in dissertating on society at large, should malign mankind. |
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His manipulative aides complete a trio of fates, a malign constellation wheeling round Herman on the huge empty stage like a ghoulish mobile. |
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He accurately intuited that all power is essentially implacable and malign. |
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After a few years in which Washington has exerted a malign force on demand, it is showing signs of becoming a neutral force. |
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McMullan will be quoted for ages by those who want to conscribe or malign the press. |
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A different possibility, of course, is that those with malign intent might find means-through a chemical agent-to enhance PTSD, not prevent it. |
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These subhuman piles of trashcan garbage would be pitiable if they weren't motivated by such malign intent. |
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Or is it the malign spirit of a girl this septet cyber-bullied into suicide exactly one year ago this very night? |
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Invoking Neville Chamberlain in Munich in 1938, they warn that the world is appeasing an aggressive and malign regime bent on a nuclear arsenal. |
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Lady Lucinda says he was as magical as he was malign, a totally bewitching, terrifyingly clever figure who had an undoubted streak of evil. |
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Its most malign expression is meanness and luridness that, so mendaciously, pretends to be fierce truth holding up a mirror to meanness and luridness. |
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All it will do is to give a malign new impulse to a cult of violence and death. |
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Second, it is completely clear that a secondary purpose of the legislation is to malign the religious freedoms of millions of Canadians. |
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The distinction between benign and malign uses of space is too blurred to be left uncontrolled and unchecked. |
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Those who constantly criticise our work and malign the positive things we have done should bear this in mind. |
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If we let Saddam carry on in the way that he is, then what message does this send to others of malign intent? |
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Again we continue to malign reputations in the House without any consideration for the truth and only for political expediency. |
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And we can't really know how far his malign influence has spread. |
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However, the possibilities for malign use of these breakthroughs are both terrifying and vast. |
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Everyone who owns property is under the risk of losing it by fire, theft, storm or other malign acts of men or of nature. |
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In some quarters a misplaced view has arisen that the WTO is a malign agent for all the negative effects of globalisation. |
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Professor Snape is a malign influence and should be given a spell away. |
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First, it diminishes the importance of hate crimes by lumping them together with other, far less malign incidents of vandalism. |
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It is sometimes difficult to get legitimate visitors and groups into this building but those with malign intentions seem to have no difficulty. |
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For people prone to believe doctors like me are part of some malign conspiracy, nothing I say will make a difference. |
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She leaves, scared of what she is capable of doing, her malign mentor cackling. |
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If the answer is yes, there is every chance that the news will throw a malign shadow over the tournament in Brazil. |
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Truth that is allowed to lurk uncovered becomes a malign entity for in that hidden state it allows untruth to accumulate credence and masquerade as gospel. |
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The effects of Round-Up Ultra are not that much different from Agent Orange, the defoliant used to such malign effect by the US in Southeast Asia. |
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Mr. Speaker, once again we have a member of the Liberals' rat pack seeking to malign a hard-working minister in this government. |
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The charge against Lebedev bears the malign signature of a move crafted to intimidate the still unintimidated. |
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But the malign was still there, as well as the mercifulness. |
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Now they harm the people, and the malign influence behind this lies with low-hearted officials who put all their efforts into catching them. |
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Or there might be a deeper, more malign intent at work. |
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It has become an unfortunate, unsavoury practice in Canadian politics to malign the reputations of individuals who have been elected to serve the people of Canada. |
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The nativists of the Know-Nothing movement appear simply as a malign force hostile to the Germans. |
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So what's the point rigging up such references to cover up your incompetencies as a lawmaker and malign the image of a celebrated personality? |
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It is certainly not prompted by Slobodan Milosevic's guileful offer of a temporary ceasefire, nor even by the belief that NATO's bombing campaign may at last be causing some discomfort to his malign regime. |
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Timor is overjoyed at the malign trouble he and his friends have caused. |
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Therefore, the activities of cytokines are particularly vulnerable to malign modulation to induce hyperor inhibiting responses that could have detrimental effects. |
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It only has one purpose and that is to malign reputations. |
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The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone. |
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Either outcome would afford terrorists an ideal sanctuary, a greater danger than Awlaki even at his most malign, especially for the pro-western monarchies elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula. |
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Wetherspoon is stepping up its efforts in the breakfast market to counteract slowing sales growth and what it says is the malign effect of cheap supermarket alcohol on the pub trade. |
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There wouldn't be any malign repercussions if I did put my name to it, but it is in the bloodstream of islanders that the operation of local society is mutually exclusive with the confrontational nature of party politics. |
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We're so used to thinking of soft power as a benign weapon that it requires an effort of will and understanding to see that it can be used in entirely malign ways, domestically as well as externally. |
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The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. |
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Popular myth has it that Moog's were warm and mellow whereas ARPs were thin and bright, and whilst there's an element of truth in this, only the terminally idiotic would malign these differences. |
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I would like to place a benign interpretation on those words rather than a malign one, because they are open to the interpretation that I am attempting to mislead Parliament. |
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Against this background, it is very sad to listen to attempts by the Liberals to malign and cast suspicion on the 30 or so Members of the European Parliament who have decided to travel to Iraq with a view to promoting peace. |
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By the Content of My Character is Allen's chance to help enlighten the masses and deprogram popular stereo-types and beliefs that malign Black males. |
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Principal causes of death are heart problems, malign tumors and diabetes. |
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While a sestamibi scan can be positive in different benign and malign thyroid tumors, we observed no occlusion in the thyroid in images taken at the second and fourth hours. |
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Ruins of Beverast, Loss, Thralldom, Malign, Arvo Part, SVEST, Sigurblot, and soundtracks by Cliff Martinez. |
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