The criminal offence of scandalum magnatum was devised to protect "the great men of the realm" from stories which could stir the people against them.
Thus I defend myself with Winston Churchill's words: "The Official Secrets Act was devised to protect the national defence … and ought not to be used to shield ministers who have a strong personal interest in concealing the truth".
It is somewhat ironic that the debate about protectionism became a permanent fixture in the national dialog in the wake of the Roca Runciman Treaty, which was devised to protect the Argentine primary sector and ensure exports to Great Britain.
This characterization implies that cyberspace as a "domain" can be protected from intrusion, and offensive and defensive military strategies can be devised to protect this space.
Friedman believed that markets perform best when freed from government interference, so he advocated getting rid of tariffs, subsidies, minimum-wage laws, public housing, Social Security, financial regulation, and licensing requirements, including those for doctors — indeed, virtually every measure devised to protect people from the market's harsh logic.
While many religious conservatives might argue that the legalization of same-gender marriage and shows like HBO's Big Love, about a fictional polygamist Mormon family, plant seeds to destroy the conventional family unit, we have to ask ourselves whether monogamy is a natural instinct in us or a social construct devised to protect and regulate the institution of heterosexual marriage.
The plan devised to protect downtown Manhattan, known as the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, was introduced by Mr. Kelly in 2005.
Furthermore, the electronic detection systems, originally devised to protect airports from air piracy between the restricted departure areas and the once unrestricted arrival areas, and to check transiting individuals, have later spread to maximum security detention facilities, banks, shopping malls, urban centers and unsafe neighborhoods.
The frameworks devised to protect privacy in this setting have also to preserve the data utility.
In Italy — where journalists often play fast and loose with the facts and the legal system is devised to protect personal honor — politicians, magistrates and public figures sue journalists so often that the Italian National Press Federation has a "solidarity fund" to help with legal fees and damages.
But in their anxiety not to offend the Vatican, they failed to restore trust in the pews.The charter, approved by an overwhelming majority of the hierarchy and binding on all America's bishops if it gets past the Holy See, is undoubtedly the toughest ever devised to protect young people from predatory priests.
