"It would help shield U.K. retail activities from risks arising elsewhere within the bank or wider system," the report said.
On a larger scale, we often look for government protection from risks that hit our "fear buttons," and that can take money and attention from far greater threats.
Ms. Levine tries to separate what she sees as real risks -- H.I.V. infection, unwanted pregnancies and sexual violence -- from risks she calls exaggerated or even invented.
As the EU's chief negotiator says, about 80% of it involves "discussions on regulations which protect people from risks to their health, safety, environment, financial and data security".
According to Mr. Carter and James C. Goodale, how are the risks taken by an individual reporter different from risks taken by a company?
Some critics of the existing program say that it unfairly punishes nonprofit, affordable-housing developers, who reflexively shy away from risks associated with private-market transactions.
It can be difficult to strike a balance between protecting people with learning disabilities from risks and encouraging them to explore and develop wider personal and social relationships.
To a large extent, we're still benefiting from risks that were taken, and research that was financed, more than a half century ago.
And even the toughest laws and tightest rules can't protect the financial system and taxpayers from risks posed by a major bank with lax internal controls.
Proposed European Union rules would compel banks to isolate their retail and lending businesses from risks created by trading and other investment banking activities.
Oilmen once thought the North Sea a safe harbour from risks run in more exotic places, but successive tax grabs have changed their minds.
