Sentence examples for past risks from inspiring English sources

But to fall into undisciplined thinking about the past risks perpetuating the same mistakes.

Taking such educated punts has become easier, thanks mostly to two factors.The first is information technology, which has made it easier for people to study many past risks in the hope of learning from them.

Skidmore, however, believes that by working with private consultants, developers and contractors rather than directly employed building labour and architects' departments, as in the past, risks can be greatly reduced.

Table 4 summarizes the models' fitted past risks for a number of situations and compares these to the reported age of first IDU, the usual imputed age at HCV infection.

Those with an STI in the past year might have been more likely to be aware of the past risk behaviour (recall bias) - thus overestimating the effect size - and to respond as we posted the banner inviting respondents to "help prevent HIV infection" (selection bias).

"In the past risk-management meetings were not a dialogue," says a senior executive at another bulge-bracket firm.

In the past, risk managers' pay was commonly determined or heavily influenced by the managers of the trading desks they oversaw, or their bonus linked to the desks' performance, says Richard Apostolik, who heads the Global Association of Risk Professionals GARPP).

Just as Russia's plans to enter Georgia long preceded its incursion, Dick Cheney and friends were eager to invade Iraq long before the actual event.Stephen Murrayo San FranciscoRisky businessSIR – As a past risk manager in financial services I liked the refreshing honesty of the anonymous person interviewed in your article ("Confessions of a risk manager", August 9th).

This paper presents empirical findings relating past risk mitigating actions and project outcomes such as project cost, project schedule, and project risk.

But the ratings agency said: "Clydesdale faces longer-term structural challenges from its weakened franchise and past risk-management and control weaknesses".

Past risk-sensitive foraging studies commonly manipulated delay to reward and reward magnitude, but recent risk-sensitive foraging research revealed that changes in reward quality resulted in changes in a forager's preference for a variable or fixed return.