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He who invented baneful-banking-sytem which is designed to steal our souls from Al-Almighty— Khilafah.com - Building a global movement for Khilafah
Let's not blame technological progress, which is generally a benign and often a marvelously beneficial thing, for the baneful effects of government interventions in health-care industries.— Libertarian Blog Place
Still his reign was baneful, on the whole, especially to the interests of enlightened Christianity and to popular liberty.— A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
What is to come hangs over me like a baneful dream, as you will easily understand, and when I am often happy and merry, comes and damps it all!— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
It consisted, according to the oldest literature of the Veda, in a polytheistical worship of the divine, either as the beneficent or the baneful power of nature.— A Comparative View of Religions

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