Sentence examples for event of collapse from inspiring English sources

In the event of collapse or upheaval, refugees would be heading north as well as west.Perhaps too it was impressed by the West's belated but impressive intervention.

He wants banks to have a pre-arranged plan to break themselves up easily in the event of collapse and set aside more capital.

Ms. Bair said she hoped the F.D.I.C. board would approve final rules at its July 6 meeting requiring systemically important financial institutions to file plans for how they could be wound down in the event of collapse.

One such fund, Universa Investments, spent the year positioning itself for such a decline — buying instruments that profit in the event of collapse but that lose money when markets are steady or climbing.

Among regulator efforts to make banks safer were new rules to force them to hold more capital, to outline how they could be broken up in the event of collapse, and the ringfencing requirement devised by Sir John Vickers to protect high street operations from investment banking businesses.

He indicated that the new rules from Basel, which could require banks to hold three times as much capital as they presently do, will still not be sufficient to ensure banks hold reserves that can be used as a cushion in the event of collapse.

Compared with other strengthening techniques, the one proposed here not only upgrades ultimate and serviceability behaviour but also adds post-punching resistance, which is a great advantage in the event of progressive collapse, since it may avoid the collapse of an entire structure, thus reducing the risk of material and human losses.

Visa Europe holds weekly meetings to discuss scenarios in the event of a collapse of the euro zone.

In the event of the collapse of a bank, the commission suggests that claims of depositors should be ranked higher than those of unsecured creditors.

But he said that was a measure intended to prevent a power vacuum in Syrian Kurdistan in the event of the collapse of the Assad regime.

With assets worth more than 12 times the country's GDP, it said each taxpayer would face liabilities of £65,000 in the event of a collapse.