"To hijack the process" means to take control of a particular procedure or system for one's own benefit, often by diverting it from its original purpose or intended direction.
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'' It has never happened in a civilise democratic dispensation where a serving governor can deliberately
hijack the process of Congresses by hiding the national committee delegated to conduct free and fair election until now,» said Jibrin
For that reason, politicians should not be allowed near the constitution making process because of the danger that they will try to
hijack the process for their own benefit.
The Police Commissioner, Mr Ali Janga, in a statement, urged them to cooperate with the security agencies to ensure that criminal elements do
not hijack the process.
They do that for a wide variety of reasons, but they should not have that choice frustrated by arbitrators or lawyers who intentionally or
inadvertently hijack the process.
According to him, the training and recruitment of ad - hoc staff for the conduct of the elections faced hitches in some states, pointing out that some of the Resident Electoral Commissioners and Electoral Officers allowed persons with vested interests to
hijack the process of recruitment and training of ad - hoc staff.
A vulnerability could have enabled attackers to
hijack this process and steal information from user profiles.
«Establishment politicians and Albany insiders will
hijack the process and abuse their power as delegates.»
«A convention needlessly opens the door for politicians and Albany insiders to
hijack that process and abuse their powers as delegates.»
This state of confusion is as a result of the number of factions of the party in the state, with each claiming to be the authentic and wanting to
hijack the process of selecting candidates for any election The existence of these factions which are more than five in number, has been hampering the progress of the party since the days of former governor Chinwoke Mbadinauju.
While Forward March supports the idea, at least one major women rights group, Planned Parenthood Empire States Acts, does not, out of fear anti-abortion groups could
hijack the process.
Peterson realized that small amounts of phenols had the potential to
hijack this process and alter flavor chemistry.
Antibiotics and other modern medicines do not work on viruses because these radically simple organisms infiltrate cells and
hijack their processes to serve their own purposes.
The systems work hand - in - glove, humming somewhere in the engineering ether, never giving the impression they've
hijacked the process.
Because Bourgeois tended to
hijack the process, reworking various proofs so extensively by hand that they became works of art in their own right.
And they knew as
they hijacked the process that Stephen McIntyre was watching.
... This isn't about our money, this is about foreign special interests who are trying to
hijack the process.
We've seen no reports of viruses that
hijack this process.
That is why it is essential to interrupt
the hijacking process as early as possible.