Sentence examples for constituted a security from inspiring English sources

"The State Department constituted a security problem for us.

Roxanne Donovan, a Max Capital spokeswoman, said the change was made for security reasons, though she declined to say specifically how the cross constituted a security threat.

In the Russian parliament, a representative asked (without obvious irony) whether this might have constituted a security risk as he could have given away state secrets.

Creative licence is one thing, but slandering a great man's reputation – while buying into the nasty 1950s prejudice that gay men automatically constituted a security risk – is quite another.

If she constituted a security threat anywhere it was in Africa, but even there, having eluded her hunters, she didn't do anything more than write another angry book about the situation.

"We have constituted a security wing in Pakistan to monitor daily reports sent by officers accompanying the team".

It hired the well-connected Washington lobbyist Tony Podesta to try to shape the legislation so that peer-to-peer lenders like Prosper would be regulated as banks, and no longer under the purview of the S.E.C., which has maintained that the company's packaging and sales of loans to investors constituted a securities offering.

But the proliferation of such groups, their destabilising impact in already unstable areas and the emergence of Syria and now Iraq as focal points for transnational jihadism collectively constitute a security challenge of growing complexity and intractability.

The attorney general's chief of staff, Paul O'Sullivan, has in turn rejected this analysis, arguing the request would occupy at least 40 hours of the attorney general's time and would require third-party consultation with security agencies about whether "the possible release of documents may constitute a security risk to the attorney general or others".

They must be in school or have graduated from high school, have a G.E.D., or an honorable discharge from the military, and they cannot have a felony conviction, a single serious misdemeanor or multiple lesser ones, or be judged to constitute a security risk.

It is ridiculous to suggest that the fewer than 2,000 women who are thought to wear the burqa in France, or the fewer than 500 in the Netherlands, suddenly constitute a security threat worse than those muffled and hooded men of violence who have been at work for decades.