(n.) The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.
Example Sentences:
(1) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(2) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
(3) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(4) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
(5) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(6) The case’s documents are devoid of any type of espionage or participation in it,” a defence lawyer told Reuters.
(7) And the fact that the disclosures have led to the highest journalism rewards, have led to historic reforms in the US and around the world – all of that would be irrelevant in a prosecution under the espionage laws in the United States.” Snowden also could face an untold number of additional charges if he returned to the United States.
(8) His novel Fatal Weakness deals with espionage between China and the US and has been published on the internet in China.
(9) David Kairys, a civil rights attorney who has advised the group, said that the Espionage Act – used aggressively under the Bush and Obama administrations to pursue leakers such as Chelsea Manning and Snowden – would not have applied as there was no espionage involved in the Media case.
(10) The Obama administration has launched seven prosecutions under the Espionage Act , which Manning is also facing, more than double the number initiated by all previous presidents combined.
(11) "We wanted a backdrop of global espionage, and then the goal was to ignore it as much as possible to focus on people bickering," Reed explains.
(12) Many foreign nations have also now realized that the scope of US spying exceeds any reasonable standard of behavior, so much so that if there are any bombshells remaining in the documents taken by Snowden, they would most likely relate to the specific targets of overseas espionage.
(13) In such cases, ministerial authorisation is required (section 8) and before giving it, the minister must be satisfied that the Australian is “a person of interest” – ie involved in terrorism or espionage or serious crime.
(14) In a press conference yesterday Ponomarev insisted that the European military observers working under the auspices of Germany's foreign ministry were engaged in espionage.
(15) An Egyptian prosecutor on Sunday accused the ousted Islamist president of passing state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the first such explicit detail in an ongoing espionage trial.
(16) In its final version, MI5 claimed: "Intelligence indicates that MIRANDA is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of UK national security ... We assess that MIRANDA is knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people's lives.
(17) Fifty years on, the exhibition illustrates what now appears to be primitive methods of espionage.
(18) Far from absurd and fictitious, state-led cyber espionage is perfectly logical and real.
(19) Meanwhile, Senator Lieberman has indicated that the New York Times and other news organisations using the WikiLeaks cables may be investigated for breaking US espionage laws.
(20) • The US National Security Agency was forced on Sunday to deny that its director ever discussed a surveillance operation against the German chancellor with President Barack Obama , as the White House tried to contain a full-scale diplomatic crisis over espionage directed at allied countries.
Sedition
Definition:
(n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
(n.) Dissension; division; schism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many colonial laws, including draconian statutes against " sedition " and "offending religious sensibilities" remained on the books.
(2) Or that he twice went to jail for incitement and sedition, telling the court, "I come here not as the accused but as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot."
(3) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
(4) He should talk about freedom, the suspension of the newspapers and the use of the sedition law – something that is so repressive – and the welfare of the former opposition leader [Anwar].” Liew Chin Tong, a lawmaker from the opposition Democratic Action party, said Cameron must tell Najib categorically to “respect the rule of law as well as human rights”.
(5) However, asked if Mr Berezovsky could be prosecuted for promoting sedition against a foreign government on British soil, Mr Murphy warned that the Crown Prosecution Service would "continue to assess comments, or alleged comments...and if they are above the threshold for a prosecution, they would do so".
(6) Mr Hariri condemned the speech as "an incitement for sedition in Lebanon".
(7) Malaysia’s federal court has dismissed a challenge that a sedition law implemented under the British empire is unconstitutional, prolonging the government’s ability to quell political opposition.
(8) According to the journalist, the term "leaders of sedition" which was initially used by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to denounce the opposition leaders, was allowed to be published in reference to the names of the leaders instead of directly mentioning them.
(9) By Aseem Trivedi, from cartoonsagainstcorruption.blogspot.co.uk India's sedition laws date back to the Raj, and were used for imprisoning Mahatma Gandhi, along with other freedom fighters.
(10) Fourteen activists were charged with sedition for criticising the NCPO in June.
(11) Lim urged Najib to withdraw current sedition charges against opposition leaders to prove his move was genuine.
(12) It’s a fate that also befell Leslie Chew last year, who was arrested and charged with “sedition” over the content of his cartoon strip, called Demon-cratic Singapore .
(13) The rampant and indiscriminate use of the Sedition Act ... functions as a catch-all provision to target all and sundry for anything that is remotely contentious, thus stifling democratic norms and creating a climate of fear,” he said.
(14) The government insists this egregious snooping is necessary to ensure that trade unions are not using their resources for sedition.
(15) Political dissidence was legally repressed through various acts, including a sedition law far more rigorous than its British equivalent.
(16) India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, called sedition laws "objectionable and obnoxious".
(17) It said: “The government increasingly targeted regime critics and those challenging conservative societal norms in 2014 … Malaysia’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community faces discrimination and hostility from both state and nonstate actors.” Activists who speak out against the governing party (which has been in power since 1957) are targeted by the authorities under the Sedition Act .
(18) Police in Bangladesh have also arrested the acting editor of Amar Desh, a pro-opposition newspaper, on several charges, including sedition.
(19) Over 150 civilians are facing military tribunal, 62 are being charged with lese-majesty offences, 38 charged with sedition and 85 prosecuted for violating the junta’s ban on political gathering of five or more persons.
(20) "The Syrian regime is exploiting the blood of Qana and Gaza and Baghdad to bring sedition to Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq so that the [Syrian presidential] palace now deserves to be called the palace of exploiters," he said.