Word: malignable
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...human reproductive cloning don’t rely on pointing out the serious risk of disease in the clone. Rather, he opposes genetic engineering on the grounds that it might change “human nature” so drastically that it could “have possibly malign consequences for liberal democracy and the nature of politics itself.” He derives his views from Aristotle and the related concept of “natural rights...
Hajji Mullah Sahib does not so much converse as lecture. Afghanistan's woes, past and present, he argues, are the fault of malign interference by the Soviets and the Americans. Operation Enduring Freedom, he says, is a pretense for manipulating Afghan affairs. In a blink he dismisses the argument that the U.S.-led coalition aims only to eradicate al-Qaeda. "If the Arabs were terrorists, why didn't America just catch them?" he asks, instead of launching...
...Hajji Mullah Sahib does not so much converse as lecture. Afghanistan's woes, past and present, he argues, are the fault of malign interference by the Soviets and the Americans. Operation Enduring Freedom, he says, is a pretense for manipulating Afghan affairs. In a blink he dismisses the argument that the U.S.-led coalition aims only to eradicate al-Qaeda. "If the Arabs were terrorists, why didn't America just catch them?" he asks, instead of launching...
...game. As long as E.U. policy is perceived as being made by a cabal of unelected Eurocrats and government leaders in closed sessions, voters can be sold the line that the Union is some malign force. The truth is that Brussels is nothing more or less than what the member governments have made it. Optimists suggest that since government figures are among the Convention delegates, scapegoating Brussels will be difficult. Perhaps. But to stymie that temptation once and for all, the Convention will have to figure out how to tether the Union to the hopes rather than the fears...
...they had been as malign as he in their vengefulness, they might better have hoped that he would live on yet a little while. For no death they could devise for him could be as cruel as must have been Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of his failure. His total war against non-German mankind was ending in total defeat...Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. The suffering and desolation that he wrought were beyond human power or fortitude to compute...