If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we're required by UK and international law to avoid that action.
Sir John Sawers "If we believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we are required by UK and international law to avoid that action.
"If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we're required by U.K. and international law to avoid that action," Sir John said.
"If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we're required by UK and international law to avoid that action, and we do, even though that allows that terrorist activity to go ahead.
"We heard loud and clear from residents and businesses in San Diego County that we needed to take action to avoid that from happening again".
This time, she has avoided that particular obstacle by taking action alongside the US and France while MPs are away.
"We will be continuing discussions with union representatives with the aim of finding a resolution and avoiding action that will affect our passengers".
This is articulated in the codes of ethics, which extend the mandate beyond avoiding actions that are clearly wrong, and move one to strive for engineering accomplishments that advance human endeavors.
In terms of security, keeping the rules means avoiding actions that, in Mr Art's words, appear "punitive and unprovoked".
Burma's foreign friends can be most helpful by avoiding actions that make it harder for her to do so.
Our species has got this far by making quick inferences based on scarce information, inferring causality where there may be none, and avoiding actions that have an infinitesimal risk of a nonetheless deadly outcome.
