| But alas, frequent highs have the baneful effect of immunizing me from working harder on longer writing projects that I have taken on. |
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| For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness. |
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| It is a possible way out from the baneful influence of race on Malaysian politics. |
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| One must learn to feel concerned for those involved in the practice so the training will not be baneful for their body and their health. |
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| Mr Wilkie was alarmed by gambling addiction and its baneful effect on addicts' families in his constituency. |
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| The Shoora noted that the vote exercised by women was more baneful for them than the male votes. |
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| And of course the baneful effects of alcohol pale in comparison to those of tobacco. |
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| The belief that nuclear arms can ensure the security of a country is not only baneful but also fallacious. |
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| In many places in Britain, it was customary to light huge bonfires in the fields to ward off baneful influences, often accompanied by much partying. |
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| Extremists from all over the world have always joined together and helped each others in order to achieve their baneful aims. |
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| Even the incredible traffic jam that held the bride's parents back was unable to have any baneful impact over the joy that reigned there. |
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| This is so that Adam's life does not sink into a sterile and, in the end, baneful encounter with himself. |
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| When happy events coincide, that is a happy coincidence. But the coincidence of baneful events is a happy coincidence too. |
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| Yet hunger, a scourge that affects many hundreds of millions of persons on our planet, has been even more baneful, proportionally, in preceding centuries. |
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| The combination of different active substances, which supplement and activate each other, stimulate the cellular restoration and prevent oxidizing processes that have a baneful influence on ageing skin. |
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| Yet more gallingly, the states have got involved in this baneful enterprise quite intensely and intensively. |
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| And what do those who have escaped the baneful influence of evil do? |
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| The practices listed above belong to the past but have baneful consequences for the economic life of the peoples and countries that were the victims. |
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| The debacle that followed America's well-intentioned joining of a UN intervention in Somalia in 1993 had a baneful effect on foreign policy for the rest of the decade. |
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| Global terrorism has made its baneful impact felt in many States, reinforcing concern about the potential for terrorists to obtain and use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons. |
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| Both sides have their supporters outside Algeria, long-standing economic relationships with Algeria are at stake and already the conflict's baneful influence has spread to nearby Western Europe. |
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| Now at liberty in the Tongan capital, Nuku'alofa, Mr Mara denounces what he says is the baneful control over Commodore Bainimarama's government exerted by the attorney-general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. |
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| In every place where there are half a dozen houses is planted an unthriving tree of liberty, which seems to wither under the baneful influence of the bonnet rouge. |
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