They would hinder intelligence-gathering, make it harder to track down terrorists and make other countries less likely to cooperate.
With police chiefs and former home secretaries arguing that further cuts to the police budget will hinder the intelligence fight against terrorists, Osborne said: "Every public service has to make sure it is spending the public's money well and there can be efficiencies made in the police in how they buy their equipment and how they operate they run their back offices.
The attack on the crime lab could hinder police and intelligence officials as they pursue suspects and monitor threats.
"A dozen determined computer programmers can, if they find a vulnerability to exploit, threaten the United States's global logistics network, steal its operational plans, blind its intelligence capabilities or hinder its ability to deliver weapons on target," he wrote.
This won't hinder the development of artificial intelligence.
Assuming the role of a nameless hacker, the player attempts to hinder the plans of a malevolent artificial intelligence called SHODAN.
After all, wasting 'half our genetic pool of intelligence, creativity and experience' will only hinder the improvement of health care for all, a loss that medicine simply 'can't afford' [ 24].
The report shows that the longstanding requirement that the government obtain a warrant was not hindering efforts to gather intelligence on terrorists after the 9/11 attacks.
Pollan explains that our perception of plant intelligence is hindered by our own sense of time, and that "time-lapse photography is perhaps the best tool we have to bridge the chasm between the time scale at which plants live and our own".
When something as simple as a shoe can have as many as 120 characteristics, computers' artificial intelligence won't always be able to identify them all, which can hinder the discovery process that would lead to a purchase.
Former security and intelligence chiefs (who make it clear they are speaking for serving officers) are warning that leaving the EU would hinder their work protecting Britain.
