Sentence examples for measures in the name of from inspiring English sources

The measures in the name of "regeneration for liveable cities" are rapidly transforming the appearance of inner-city areas with great revenue-generating potential.

More than that, governments are actively incentivizing the development of many new medical countermeasures – principally by marshaling the state's unique powers to introduce exceptional measures in the name of protecting national security.

There has been a knee-jerk tendency to resort to authoritarian measures in the name of security and stability in the years since the uprising and a backslide into the state's old ways remains a real risk for Tunisia.

Europeans leaders have dictated harsh austerity measures in the name of stability for the euro, the region's common currency, rubber-stamped by captive and corrupt national politicians, protesters say.

The movie heaps most of it on BP's Donald Vidrine and Robert Kaluza, who urge the rig's crew to bypass safety measures in the name of getting the petroleum giant's drilling operation back on schedule; John Malkovich plays the former as an oily Cajun who all but sprouts horns.

Both governments have been trying to exploit the fallout from recent events (the Charlie Hebdo killings in France, and North Korea's alleged hacking of Sony Pictures) in order to advance unpopular cybersecurity measures in the name of national security, despite their serious implications for privacy.

In other words, yes to the 100-plus peers as a stopgap measure in the name of fairness.

The inventory of measures advanced in the name of homeland security during the past decade would fill a book.

First, some measures introduced in the name of improving security may have the side-effect of needlessly infringing civil liberties.

On Monday, deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, cited the use of the Ripa surveillance laws to obtain journalists' records as an example of measures introduced in the name of "public safety" that actually "undermine the very freedoms we cherish".

"I didn't come back to Davos because I haven't been able to find any hostility in Washington, D.C.," Mr. Ashcroft joked at a lunch gathering, apparently referring to questioning in the United States about the extent to which civil liberties have been subjugated to security measures taken in the name of pre-empting new terror attacks.