Sentence examples for damage the commonwealth from inspiring English sources

In their submissions, filed just weeks ago, defence and customs both argued the information could not be released because it could damage the commonwealth's national security.

But Foreign Secretary William Hague said the government had decided that staying away from the meeting would damage the Commonwealth.

Mr Hague told the BBC he understood why other leaders had chosen not to attend, but for the UK to join them would "damage the Commonwealth without changing things positively in Sri Lanka".

Government agencies had prepared information for the committee, including a list of convictions for damage to commonwealth property and a list of similar laws in the UK, Britain and Canada.

The Commonwealth knows very clearly just how much psychiatric damage they are inflicting on innocent people.

Mr. Santorum found himself in damage-control mode as he was wrapping up a two-day visit to the commonwealth.

The remedy is in damages which is not much of a sanction to large global corporations or the commonwealth.

But what of the damage Zimbabwe has caused in the rest of the region?Recently in Johannesburg, Don McKinnon, secretary-general of the Commonwealth, called attention to just that.

Labor's shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, questioned the government's proposal which would allow citizenship to be stripped for damage to commonwealth property.

The bill originally recommended dual nationals could lose Australian citizenship for offences including damage to commonwealth property, which would have caught dual nationals committing acts such as graffiti.

The Commonwealth differs from other international bodies.