Sentence examples for argument to prevent from inspiring English sources

Government lawyers have used the same argument to prevent Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a prominent Libyan dissident, and his wife from suing the former foreign secretary Jack Straw and MI6 over the couple's abduction and subsequent rendition to Tripoli.

Although secondary research may deviate from "pure science", this should not be seen as argument to prevent transparency in this sensitive area where so many different interests are focusing.

Ever since Earl Warren's day, the Court has been constructing constitutionally based arguments to prevent local elected officials, and the voters who usher them into office, from simply ignoring or repealing unpopular remedies for racial discrimination.

According to the asymmetry argument: coercing to prevent harm leads to autonomy-gain, coercing to prevent (harmless) immorality leads to autonomy-loss; and that explains why legal coercion should be limited by harm-based considerations.

The argument used to prevent compounding pharmacies from providing these drugs is pretty straightforward: allowing unregulated (or, in Sells's case, unknown) producers to supply execution drugs risks causing the prisoners excruciating pain.

It undermined this argument just enough to prevent it from carrying the day.

In contrast, there is a good argument for policies to prevent minors from taking up an e-cigarette habit.

"I take note of the argument for action to prevent a future use of chemical weapons," the U.N. chief added.

WASHINGTON -- Since the U.S. and five partner countries announced last week that they had reached the framework for a nuclear agreement with Iran, skeptics have rallied around a familiar argument: The failure to prevent North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons proves that Iran, too, will ultimately get the bomb.

A more plausible argument is that to prevent rebinding of the first cross-link, the rate of formation of the second cross-link must be faster than the rate of reclosing of the first.

Recently the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ruled against the attorney general, George Brandis, when his office made similar arguments to attempt to prevent him processing an FoI request for his ministerial diary.