Sentence examples for instruments that caused from inspiring English sources
The American people need a bill that strictly regulates all derivatives -- the complex, and often speculative instruments that caused so much trouble here and abroad.
At the same time, we're learning more about the financial instruments that caused our economic collapse, and it's now clear that "exotic," the adjective of choice, won't suffice.
PETER EDMONSTON nytimes.com/dealbook LOOKING AHEAD Floyd Norris notes that Wall Street will stay sober only until investors are willing to start buying newer versions of the "fancy financial instruments" that caused the problem.
The instruments that caused the greatest disruption last year, credit-default swaps tied to mortgage-backed securities, were traded "over the counter" rather than on exchanges and were almost entirely unregulated.
It is also a comment on the financial instruments that caused the global crisis, some of which strike her as fictions with no more substance than the incantations of levitators.
The appeal of a "three strikes and you're out" law is understandable, but these laws have proven to be blunt instruments that cause more injustice than they prevent.
Optical scanners are instruments that cause a light beam to pass sequentially a number of spatial positions and to do so repeatedly, in a periodic manner.
C.D.S., in shorthand, is the same financial instrument that caused so much trouble at the insurer American International Group, prompting a government bailout to avoid an international chain reaction of bank failures.
Mr. Paulson, 54, was not named as a defendant in the S.E.C. suit, but his role in devising the instrument that caused $1 billion in losses for Goldman's customers is detailed in the complaint.
"In the past, one had to really strive hard to convict somebody of a felony when a dog was the instrument that caused the damage," said Kenneth M. Phillips, a Los Angeles-based lawyer focused on canine law.
"I felt that this approach, however, was too heavy-handed in that it was inevitably going to be a blunt instrument that caused a lot of collateral damage.
