The IPC board demanded his resignation for damaging the interests of the company.
In the meantime, Aosis should come to its senses and realise that it is damaging the interests of small island states worldwide to have its collective voice represented by a regime that crushes democracy and imprisons opposition leaders.
China later backed away from the espionage accusations and instead accused the four of engaging in bribery, stealing trade secrets and damaging the interests of China's state-owned steel makers.
Critics of the case against Microsoft have argued that antitrust is a blunt instrument to use against fast-moving high-tech industries, damaging the interests of consumers rather than helping them.
In October, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a nonprofit consumer group in Washington, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that contended that inaccurate valuations on the site, both high and low, were damaging the interests of all consumers and particularly the interests of working families.
Between 1994 and 1995, Israeli and Palestinian academics got together in Stockholm and elsewhere to work out how the circle could be squared: how each side could get what it considered most important, without damaging the interests of the other side.
"Their activity constituted a grave fraud activity and severely damaged the interest of minority shareholders," Lee Kyung-choon, a judge at the Seoul Central District Court, said in his ruling.
Success for The Wolf of Wall Street suggests the various controversies surrounding it – whether Scorsese's treatment amounts to a condoning of fraud, whether any animals were harmed in its making – have done little to damage the interest of cinemagoers.
Europe's protectionism has also damaged the interests of the developing world.
Such claims would gravely damage the interests of the international community, said a Chinese spokesman.
