Sentence examples for giant risk from inspiring English sources

The project was a giant risk.

"Jeffrey took a giant risk with 'Osage,' and a giant risk with 'Donuts,' " said David Hawkinson, Steppenwolf's executive director.

"What I see is a giant risk to business".

"At the time we put out the Sex Pistols, people thought we were taking a giant risk," he says.

In this view, the world is a giant Risk board on which, by way of unassailable American military might, borders, armies and dictators can be manipulated at will.

Matthew Myers, of Tobacco-Free Kids — the one public-health advocate involved in the secret talks — was also taking a giant risk; when word leaked out that he was one of the negotiators, he was roundly condemned by many anti-tobacco advocates, who insisted that their side should never sit at the same table as Big Tobacco.

Selina Todd is professor of modern history and co-director of women in humanities at Oxford University David Cameron will be remembered as a giant risk-taker, taking Britain to war in Libya in 2011, and failing to do so in Syria in 2013, calling the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 and the EU referendum in 2016.

Sometimes only a shrink can decipher why some politicians persist in flagrantly taking giant risks, all but daring others to catch them in the act (see: Spitzer, Eliot).

This year the leaders of some of the world's most respected financial institutions — leaders who are paid first and foremost to manage risk — have been caught either unaware or uninformed about giant risks their companies took.

This is a panel that is supposed to identify giant risks in the system that bankers ignore in their pursuit of profit and bonuses and to spot flaws in regulations that could cost the public and economy trillions.

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