Leamas played an unwitting part in this operation.

We're all unwitting victims of a collective blind spot.

It is even possible that in some cases the assistance given by criminal organizations to terrorists will be unwitting.

Unfortunately, large numbers of them had been lured to Europe under false pretences and had become the unwitting victims of traffickers.

The Monitoring Group determined that about 67 individuals, companies and entities (the commercial chain ) were witting or unwitting parties to the arms transaction process.

While private sector organizations are frequently the unwitting vehicles for perpetration of such crimes, those same organizations can also be active partners in compliance and prevention.

By virtue of its geographical location, the Bahamas is an unwitting transit point for illegal drugs from producing countries south of our borders to consumer countries to the north.

The Monitoring Team believes that Al Qaida, the Taliban and their associates continue to raise most of the money they need from the donations of knowing and unwitting benefactors and through local crime.

He stresses the importance of checking for bats before carrying out maintenance within properties as it is possible unwitting destruction of a single maternity roost could kill up to 400 females and young, possibly wiping out an entire local population.

But, because they do nothing to protect themselves against their real estate price risks, they are unwitting gamblers. In fact, home buyers in most countries do nothing to protect themselves short of selling their homes because there is nothing to be done.

They preferred less competition in credit markets not out of concern for the unwitting farmers, but in order to defend powerful lenders profits. It worked, but an unintended collateral effect was to protect these districts from getting carried away by the financial frenzy.

Civilians are no longer caught up in a conflict between warring parties they become the targeted enemy, as are all those who work to assist and bring relief to them and who might become the unwitting witnesses to atrocities committed against civilian populations.

But he is best viewed as a self serving, unwitting agent of political modernization. It is these twenty first century dynamics and changes, underpinned by an increasingly assertive citizenry, with which the Thai establishment must come to terms if the country is to move forward.

And the main thing learned during the Apollo Sea rescue in '94 was that most of those penguins had died due to the unwitting use of poorly ventilated transport boxes and trucks because they just had not been prepared to deal with so many oiled penguins at once.

Some 60 of 23andMe customers have agreed to provide the requested information. Of course, one could argue that they are not an unwitting public, but altruistic volunteers so generous, in fact, that, beyond paying for the service, they hand over the value of their subsequent labor in providing epidemiological data.

On their dying day, Poland s communists managed one last perversity, a final and unwitting act of utter self humiliation. They devised an electoral system whereby Poles would not vote for candidates of their choice, but would cross out those they did not want which is to say, each and every communist.

For southern European countries, joining the euro was explicitly or implicitly a way to force their citizens to accept a degree of fiscal discipline that they were incapable of adopting on their own. But was this a democratic decision, or one that an enlightened elite forced upon its unwitting citizens?

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003 drew attention to the fact that even long distance flight times are shorter than the incubation periods for many infectious diseases, so that any one of the 700 million passengers who take international flights each year can be an unwitting disease carrier.

This unwitting comparison usually comes out in favor of Chinese officials, who are, as a group, better educated, more cosmopolitan, and more focused on business (because the ruling Communist Party uses economic growth and foreign investment as criteria for promoting officials). And, as an organization, the Chinese state is far stronger and more purposive than states are in more typical developing countries.

But bankers political tin ear in the aftermath of the crisis first taking public bailouts and then paying themselves huge bonuses as if nothing had changed ensured that they got the lion s share of the blame, with everyone else willing to pose as their unwitting victims. As a result, the public policy response has been dominated by the bankers did it narrative.

What has people outraged is the notion that Facebook is manipulating its unwitting users to advance its own agenda, with many citing the secrecy surrounding the research to illustrate the company s misconduct (though the company published the results with no apparent sense of unease). But, though Facebook s lack of transparency is certainly disconcerting as is its deafness to its users concerns these complaints miss the point.

As the journalist Charles Seife has pointed out, the retail genetics test is meant to be a front end for a massive information gathering operation against an unwitting public. Indeed, when 23andMe customers log in to their accounts, they are invited to fill out surveys about their lifestyle, family background, and health, adding epidemiological value to the genetic data, which are then used by the firm s research arm, 23andWe.