The spokesman warned that the government would "not allow anybody in Hong Kong to undertake espionage activities and jeopardize the interests of Hong Kong and the state".
If competitive behaviour is dangerous, theorists seek for alternative methods of cooperative behaviour that would not jeopardize the interests of the state through exposing it to the possibly less cooperative behaviour of others.
In February 2007, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, escalated the rhetorical battle with a warning to the United States about any attack: "No one would commit such a blunder and jeopardize the interests of his country and people".
As a working definition, loyalty can be characterized as a practical disposition to persist in an intrinsically valued (though not necessarily valuable) associational attachment, where that involves a potentially costly commitment to secure or at least not to jeopardize the interests or well-being of the object of loyalty.
Rodgers fired off a long, tightly argued reply, pointing out that most experienced, technically qualified candidates for those positions happened to be middle-aged white males, and it would be immoral for him to jeopardize the interests of his employees and shareholders by assigning slots to "politically correct placeholders".
"They think he is jeopardizing the interests of Spain and the party for an action that is illegal".
Meanwhile, a series of production and distribution problems brought by advanced communes jeopardized the interests of peasants.
Béla's was on good terms with the Holy Roman Empire, jeopardizing the interests of Boleslaw III of Poland who had been warring with the empire.
"Anyone who thinks agents would jeopardize the best interests of their clients," Allard said, "doesn't know these agents very well".
Rear Admiral B. A. Harlow, Acting Judge Advocate General, in denying my appeal for access to the Navy's Pearl Buck documents, informed me, "Even after the passage of 34 years, release of the withheld information would jeopardize the Government's interest in preventing the unwarranted invasion of personal privacy of an individual about whom the Government maintains information in its files".
