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Malign in sentence

66 examples of Malign in a sentence

So there the violation is malign.
But of course, not all uses of data are malign.
We were the "bad immigrants," or the "anchor babies" that Trump and millions of Americans easily malign.
Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.
Before 2007, such a policy was seen as a mistake at worst; now it is interpreted as a malign strategy.
Numerous members of Congress from both parties declared that it was unjust for Trump to malign the entire intelligence community – dedicated government workers, many of whom take on highly dangerous assignments.
Fake news – and fake allegations of fake news – now plagues civil discourse, and political parties have proved increasingly willing to use xenophobia and other malign strategies to win elections.
In some analyses, malign impact turned into a more sinister “malign intent.”
Not only has the term become a shorthand way to malign an entire industry; autocrats are invoking it as an excuse to jail reporters and justify censorship, often on trumped-up charges of supporting terrorism.
Many bemoan this state of affairs, but his ascendancy might be less malign than it seems.
Europeans did much better at reconciliation with their neighbors after WWII, in part because the malign and evil conditions of Nazi rule made it necessary to talk about the past in terms of moral categories rather than power politics.
With policymaking having been subjected to the malign influence of a rising plutocracy, economists calling for “bold persistent experimentation” were swimming against the tide – even though well-founded economic theories justified precisely that course of action.
As a result, the Afghan state is at risk of takeover by a malign coalition of extremists, criminals, and opportunists.
When something upsets a beneficent natural order, humans crave for stories featuring some malign force.
Among other threats, the possibility that AI systems will be hacked by malign actors, or deployed by terrorists and tyrants, now looms large.
But today two-thirds of American adults get some of their news from social media, which rest on a business model that lends itself to outside manipulation and where algorithms can easily be gamed for profit or malign purposes.
And the automation that made Internet platforms so profitable left them vulnerable to manipulation by malign actors everywhere – and not just authoritarian governments hostile to democracy.
And woe betide anyone who suggests that Russia’s malign interference in the election has anything to do with Trump’s own warmth toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After all, “fake news” can take many forms, and sometimes it is disseminated without any malign intention to manipulate voters or sway an election.
A good example is the international effort to confront the Islamic State’s malign brutality in Iraq and Syria.
Overall, there is little hard evidence to support a malign view of China’s investments in Africa.
A malign example is Philip Morris’s donation of money to museums, symphony orchestras, and opera houses, cynically aimed at buying off artists who might otherwise work to ban cigarettes.
I do not attribute any malign or sinister purposes to the OSCE presence in Albania, unless one considers inertia malign.
While there is no causal link between the Iraq war and the Arab revolutions that began in December 2010, their implications have combined in a malign manner.
We shall see whether the United States – with its economic strength, relative geographical isolation, and strong institutions – is better protected than Turkey against the influence of Putin’s malign example.
Those who see dark American forces behind all that is wrong with the world, from financial crashes to the violence in Ukraine, are prone to detect the malign hand of Israeli or even Jewish lobbies in every US policy.
But what has tended to get lost in these discussions are the malign synergies between a Third World suspicious that so-called humanitarian interventions are only colonialism redux and a unilateralist US administration wedded to the concept of pre-emptive war against enemies that it equates with states that violate human rights.
And it is this rise in risk premia that threatens to send the global economy into a deep recession, and turn the financial markets from a spectacle of schadenfreude into a malign source of unemployment and idle factories worldwide.
The first team thinks that a speaker can invoke a white-supremacist slogan repeatedly in a single speech without having malign intentions; the second team knows that the genealogy of words cannot be denied without the past taking its revenge.
The goal in this area should be to create international arrangements that encourage benign uses of cyberspace and discourage malign uses.
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