Without our voices, such an agency could easily be dominated by industry's concerns at the expense of civil rights.

As British business expands overseas we will need to ensure that this success is not achieved at the expense of human rights.

His concern, he said, is that investigators are "just trying to make research more efficient at the expense of human rights."

This administration has aggressively supported state power in many areas, often at the expense of civil rights and other important values.

In tackling the threats, we must not allow improved security to come at the expense of fundamental human rights.

The conference agreed that efforts to improve cyber security must not be at the expense of human rights.

"But you can't solve social problems at the expense of constitutional rights."

There can be no upfront concessions at the expense of human rights.

In my view this is sheer populism at the expense of human rights.

We must, however, make it much clearer that the war against terrorism cannot be waged at the expense of human rights and other basic values.