But with some enforcement, regulators could prevent the worst risks.
"Measures were taken to prevent the worst," Mr. Charlot scribbled in a memo that night.
But there is still time to prevent the worst from happening in Syria.
"We have a closing window of time to prevent the worst by preparing for higher seas".
Austrian democrats must now urgently unite, and mobilise to prevent the worst outcome of all.
That would help prevent the worst abuses of transfer pricing scams, in which tax havens play a handy role.
George Bush spoke of the need to prevent the worst WMD getting into the hands of the worst leaders.
"We prefer to use the animals as ambassadors to make people aware of the dangers and prevent the worst".
Yet all these regulators failed to anticipate and prevent the worst financial crisis since the Depression, because risk-taking flourished in the cracks between them.
American-led intervention did eventually stop that war in 1995, but not in time to prevent the worst atrocity in Europe for half a century, the Srebrenica massacre.
"From the perspective of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, we think about very big, serious questions every day, and try to prevent the worst from happening," Benedict said.
