Sentence examples for contagion event from inspiring English sources

Mr Ruskin thinks that a one-notch downgrade (to AA+ is unlikely to be a global contagion event, and global risk appetite should not take a sustained hit, beyond the immediate US equity market reaction in the days immediately surrounding the event.Worth noting, however, that the ratings of other agencies that depend on the government, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, would also be affected.

Sun described the paper as the first study of "a large number of real contagion events on a social network that accurately captures the genuine social ties that exist between people in the real world".

Our empirical results show that the probability of a huge loss event sharply increased during the Eurozone debt crisis, indicating a contagion effect.

"There is a contagion effect," he said.

This "suicide contagion" effect is sadly pervasive.

Berlin has an incentive to get the Spanish problem under control before Greek parliamentary elections on June 17, to help contain contagion in the event of instability after the vote, said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank.

The storylines for writer-director-CGI-artist Neill Blomkamp's Oscar-nominated District 9 and his latest film, Elysium are essentially similar, with workaday anti-heroes undergoing empathy-inducing events of contagion (both on the job) embroiling them in a struggle for survival that transforms them into agents of change.

In a timely collision of events, the film Contagion, a Hollywood blockbuster about an incurable virus spread by a single touch, was released last weekend.

Another illustration of contagion involves the cascade of events in Eastern Europe near the end of the Cold War - the fall of the Berlin Wall, followed immediately thereafter by the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and onward to other nations in the region.

He argues that talk of "contagion" has been left behind by events.

Cyprus is, however, a member of the euro zone, so events there could trigger contagion (for example, bank runs) in larger nations.