Sentence examples for host of risky from inspiring English sources

This "preferred creditor status" is one reason why the World Bank's bonds are rated AAA, even though most of its loans are to a host of risky developing countries.

In the last quarter-century, the Winter Olympics have added a host of risky and perilous sports to modernize the event lineup, but their presence has not diminished the primal appeal, and inherent jeopardy, of men and women skiing as fast as they can down a slick mountain slope.

The preferred financial vehicle for a host of risky bets on the U.S. mortgage market, they created artificial demand for subprime mortgages, encouraging banks and mortgage brokers to extend loans to doomed borrowers.

The demise of traditional underwriting would create in the coming decades a vacuum filled by a host of volatile, risky businesses.

Alvarez -- a bank-friendly holdover from the years when Alan Greenspan chaired the Fed -- in December delayed the moment of truth for a host of other risky bank investments through 2017.

Given that older persons are confronted with a host of complex, often risky, and very influential decisions just at a time when many face the ravages of cognitive decline, the association of cognition with risk aversion may have important implications for improving financial and health decision-making, health behaviors, and ultimately well being among older persons.

Aging is widely regarded as a time of cognitive and functional decline, yet in the midst of the challenges of aging, older persons are confronted with a host of complex and risky decisions that arguably have as much (if not more) significance as decisions made earlier in life.

Patrick Gray, host of the information security podcast Risky Business, shared "trusted" analysis on Twitter that suggested the website's servers had not been coded to "load balance to other servers" in the event of overload.

Mr. Goodfellow suggested that the coast guards of host countries in risky regions provide escorts to tankers in their waters.

Seth MacFarlane, this year's host, opened the 85th annual Academy Awards with a round of risky humor more akin to the Golden Globes, delivering a monologue that mocked himself as "the worst Oscar host ever" and joining with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles to perform a song-and-dance homage to topless scenes by female stars.

But the internet boom highlighted the vibrancy of the American way of innovating, in which a host of entrepreneurial start-ups try out risky new ideas and the most successful of them either become, or are acquired by, larger firms.