Sentence examples for adopt a risk from inspiring English sources

"DfT had to respect the devolution of powers to London Underground, TfL and the mayor of London, which made it difficult to adopt a risk management strategy commensurate with the risks DfT faced," said the report.

Even those hedge funds and other institutional investors that aren't actively shorting tend to adopt a "risk off" strategy, which precludes them from buying very much in response to drops in the market.

Now the trend is to adopt a risk based approach to meeting health, safety and environmental criteria.

The internal causes of failure include poor management, lack of risk management planning, and failure to adopt a risk limit threshold (Ariful and Des 2012).

GE is being asked to provide regular updates about PCB cleanup in the Hudson and Housatonic Rivers, as well as to adopt a risk framework around nanotechnology.

Where possible the United Kingdom based Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency adopt a risk based approach to determine who can return to driving after an incapacitating event such as an epileptic seizure.

A partial solution, says Stuart Feldstein, president of Hackettstown, N.J.-based SMR Research Corp., would be to adopt a risk-control model of the insurance industry and assign risk to certain demographic and geographic groups.

An alternative is to adopt a risk-based approach (e.g., Yohe and Leichenko 2010), which has been identified as the most appropriate overarching framework for adapting to climate change (Jones and Preston 2011).

Pregnancy and lactation is not only a critical period for long-term malprogramming, but can also be considered as a "teachable moment" describing a life situation that is thought to motivate women to adopt a risk-reducing health behaviour [ 42].

In addition to guidelines on prevention of colonization, infection control measures applied to returning travelers at hospitals in low-prevalence countries should also be revised to adopt a risk-based approach.

In 2007, the Department of Defense (DOD) Task Force on Mental Health recommended the DOD adopt a risk-adjusted population-based model for estimating the number and clinical specialty ratios for behavioral health providers in military medical departments [ 27].