Sentence examples for proved risky from inspiring English sources

And feverish deal-making, said Mr. Millman at Salomon, has proved risky before.

Mr. Ackermann appeared on German television, conceding that the country's banks had erred by expanding pell-mell into financial products that later proved risky.

Earlier this month Charlie Redmayne, UK chief executive of HarperCollins, revealed he had cut back on buying up stars as non-fiction celebrity titles proved risky when publishers had to pay a big advance on a title that could turn out to be unprofitable with a short shelf life.

Pivoting mounts were used in the US gunboat navyy" under Thomas Jefferson, even in much smaller craft, though they often proved risky since the recoil could destabilize vessels with a small displacement, especially if the guns were fired over the side.

Goodman's interplay of irony and rumination, so seductive in her first collaboration with Adams, "Nixon in China," proved riskier here.

She filed suit earlier this year, saying she had unintentionally put people into long-term investments that had proved riskier than she understood.

His Moneyball-for-movies strategy, in which he bet on singles and doubles rather than box office home runs, proved riskier than previously thought.

For instance, an intensive reproduction pattern with three lambings in 2 years consistently led to the highest net income in conventional meat-sheep production systems over the last 20 years, but did not improve economic results on organic meat-sheep farms, where it even proved riskier and more difficult to manage (Benoit et al., 2009).

Failing to keep up with rising values can prove risky.

This approach may prove risky for several reasons.

There were indications that the more negative tone Mr. McCain adopted this summer could prove risky.