Dar în următoarele decenii, printr-un proces de activism juridic, Curtea Europeană a extins în mod progresiv semnificaţia acestei fraze dincolo de ceea ce ar presupune o persoană rezonabilă.
But what has happened in the subsequent decades is that, through a process of judicial activism, the European Court has progressively extended the meaning of that phrase beyond anything that a reasonable person would assume.