Sentence examples for downturn risk from inspiring English sources

Targets should make allowances for big economic shocks: strict budget rules that require measures to prune deficits in a downturn risk further weakening the economy.

For the coalition, slowdown or downturn risks cutting the ground from beneath its central political strategy.

Today firms with more than 15 workers cannot get rid of employees even in a downturn without risking legal proceedings that can last years.

But regulators are also looking at the period before the downturn when risks are building up, and wondering whether to fortify defences at that point.Such a change in emphasis is particularly desirable because of the plethora of other procyclical forces now at work in the financial system.

But it also warned that to achieve that, they needed to get away from "short term knee-jerk reactions" seen in previous downturns - or risk damaging the long term future of the industry.

"I think they're well aware a downturn is a risk to their business model," Mr. Lively said, although none of the companies he has looked at have yet to focus on a plan for investor hand-holding and education.

Amid the financial downturn and growing risk of lawsuits against the wealthy, insurers that specialize in coverage for the affluent are taking a broader view of the potential pitfalls those consumers face.

No big economy has yet fallen back into recession after exiting its post-crisis downturn (although that risk remains given the low level of growth and how far debt reduction has to go).

This is right and proper during a downturn, but it risks pushing deficits above the ceiling laid down in Europe's "stability pact".

Wednesday's Fed statement did not mention trade, simply noting, as it had done in March, that the risks to the economic outlook "appear roughly balanced". That means the risks of a downturn are similar to the risks of the economy picking up.

Meaning said it would be better for the Bank to push up inflation temporarily than to hold off on monetary policy and risk the downturn taking hold.