Sentence examples for calculating risk from inspiring English sources

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We're bad at calculating risk.

Having been mugged more than once, he is accustomed to calculating risk and response.

My father was a professor of finance who wrote fairly dry textbooks, where the prose marched in soldierly fashion across the page, broken by intricate formulas calculating risk and return, and this poem was a somewhat frilly production for him.

The characters serve as a counterweight to the numbers and statistics, and convey the point that calculating risk is only half of the problem.

The backdrop of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio could hardly have been more appropriate given its links to the Medicis and Machiavelli, who could have been describing the Cookson gambit when he wrote: "All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger – it's impossible – but calculating risk and acting decisively".

At such levels, public outrage would be immense, but we are prepared to tolerate such risks from the climate because the prospects of catastrophic levels of warming are still regarded by many as remote, the study suggested, and we are poor at calculating risk.

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That basic requirement would serve as insurance against the possibility that banks try to game the rules for calculating risk-weighted assets.

Taking into account both the higher headline ratios, and more conservative rules for calculating risk-adjusted assets under Basel 3, UBS will have to carry capital and CoCo bonds of SFr60 billion-75 billion $58 billion-72 billion-72 billionour times the de faboutrequirement under the old rules.

This information is important for calculating risk-factors for CMV-seronegative recipients.

This study represents the first attempt within a developing country to use a population-based dataset as a means of calculating risk-adjusted CS rates in order to identify those physicians who are above or below the average practice in a high CS rate setting, which prevails in Taiwan.

A calculated risk?

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