Sentence examples for harming legitimate from inspiring English sources

America's biggest firms spend $2m-4m 2m-4mr to combat counterfeiting on average—a figure that is growing along with internet shopping.Governments are also boosting their efforts to crack down on counterfeiting, which deprives them of tax revenue in addition to harming legitimate businesses.

Some argue that data storage and communications systems should be designed with exceptional access -- or "back doors" -- for law enforcement in order to avoid harming legitimate investigative capabilities.

These citizens were legitimately concerned that these overly broad bills would have gone beyond pirates and harmed legitimate Web sites, innovation and the Internet economy.

First, courts anxious to stop cybersquatting reduce or ignore the requirement for use in connection with goods and services, which can harm legitimate trademark uses like gripe sites.

But among Chinese art dealers and museum professionals in the United States there is a widespread belief not only that the agreement is unlikely to achieve its stated goal of stopping looting in China, but also that it will harm legitimate collecting and study of this material.

A report published by the European Commission Joint Research Centre claims that music web piracy does not harm legitimate sales.

"Misuse of the Internet to violate the law can ultimately only service to harm legitimate business," said U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway, unsealing the indictment.

Reaction to the disclosures, conflating the acts of the National Security Agency NSAA) with other government agencies, has also potentially harmed legitimate government activities.

The fight over labeling G.M. food is not foremost about food safety or environmental harm, legitimate though these questions are.

"Selling illegal, fake toys is a crime and ruins the reputation of genuine traders, harms legitimate businesses, costs the economy millions in lost tax revenue and often funds organised criminal gangs," said Blackburn.

He said he understood the Palestinians' frustrations, but that violence would only harm their legitimate aspirations.