unwarranted intrusion

collocation in English

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unwarranted
adjective
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/ʌnˈwɒr.ən.tɪd/us
/ʌnˈwɔːr.ən.t̬ɪd/
not having a good reason and therefore annoying ...
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intrusion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈtruː.ʒən/us
/ɪnˈtruː.ʒən/
an occasion when someone goes into a place or situation where they are not wanted or expected ...
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(Definition ofunwarrantedandintrusionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was anunwarrantedintrusioninto the legitimate activities of a political organisation.
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They have not been effective, especially in the critical matter of protecting people fromunwarrantedintrusioninto their privacy.
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Those provisions are an unprecedented andunwarrantedintrusionby central government into the legitimate affairs and responsibilities of locally-elected councils.
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The three related criminal offences ofunwarrantedintrusionremain under consideration.
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That is anunwarrantedintrusioninto the privacy of the individual.
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Secondly, when will he wake up and accept that local authorities are responsible bodies and that his actions represent anunwarrantedintrusioninto local democracy?
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Those articles set out their right to protection from cruel and inhuman treatment andunwarrantedintrusioninto their private lives.
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It really seems to be a quiteunwarrantedintrusioninto a man's private affairs.
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First, and most important, all this is a quiteunwarrantedintrusioninto our freedom to enjoy ourselves as we please.
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There has never been any parliamentary authority to allow this serious andunwarrantedintrusioninto our telephone network.
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It would clearly be anunwarrantedintrusioninto individual privacy to argue that every financial contribution to a political party is made public.
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It is anunwarrantedintrusioninto the flexibility and freedom of political parties to tell them that individuals cannot stand for both lists.
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It would be anunwarrantedintrusion, as has been said, on the liberties of the individual.
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It defines the invasion of privacy as anunwarrantedintrusioninto private life.
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He stormed out of the meeting, objecting that the idea was anunwarrantedintrusionon privacy—and look what happened to him.
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Of course, press invasion of private lives causes real pain for those concerned; if it isunwarrantedintrusion, the pain is mixed with justifiable anger.
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We also accepted the case for new criminal offences ofunwarrantedintrusion, and for giving consideration to four other measures bearing on privacy.
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I believe that those safeguards are sufficient to protect the individual againstunwarrantedintrusion.
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However, they may well be forced into that situation, which is anunwarrantedintrusioninto the independence of local government.
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Can he tell me and those people how he can justify thatunwarrantedintrusioninto legitimate local government business?
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