Sentence examples for thwart legitimate from inspiring English sources

Heinrich told Brennan that the agency's recent actions were "meant to intimidate, deflect, and thwart legitimate oversight".

We should be mindful of the message we send to the world by our efforts to thwart legitimate Palestinian attempts to attain statehood through United Nations channels.

As long as you do not impair anyone's ability to get work done, place your employer in legal peril or thwart legitimate efforts at computer security, you should have broad latitude as to how you use your workplace computer and how you — inadvertently — do not.

SACRAMENTO — A landmark law that has been a symbol of California's tough environmental philosophy for more than 40 years is facing an unlikely challenge from Democrats, including Gov. Jerry Brown, who contend that regulations protecting the environment have been abused and are thwarting legitimate development.

Some critics contend that the low numbers simply show the system is easily fooled, while others say that exaggerated estimates of marriage fraud over the years have created a bureaucratic monster, thwarting legitimate, if unconventional, couples and spurring unconstitutional intrusion into their lives.

They contend that the managers of The Tribune, which is the managing partner in the joint operating unit, the Newspaper Agency Corporation, have systematically thwarted their legitimate business goals and cost them tens of millions of dollars.

Authorities say illicit waste is typically hidden in containers carrying legitimate cargo to thwart customs inspections.

They argue that measures taken to thwart trolls would also hurt legitimate innovators and discourage R&D.

His remarks ended weeks of speculation about American opposition to an effort that sought to thwart germ warfare while at the same time allowing legitimate commercial use of biological materials.

Of course, there is a wide gulf between a government's legitimate interest in preventing criminality and a despot's attempt to thwart opposition by shutting down their channels of communication.

But on August 11th Facebook accused it of ensnaring legitimate content from friends and Pages, and rolled out the code necessary to thwart Adblock Plus' workaround.