Sentence examples for rigorous stress from inspiring English sources

In early 2009, the United States government put the nation's largest banks through rigorous stress tests to assess their health.

The ratings agency said the cost would be more than double the Bank of Spain estimate and would rise to more than €100bn under a rigorous stress test.

Forcing banks to disclose their government bond portfolios, however, gives investors the power to conduct their own more rigorous stress tests.

Alice (and her creator, who seeds "Folly" with all of the trademarks of a roman à clef) slips her skin, but not without subjecting that freedom to a rigorous stress test.

But the American authorities in particular managed to draw a line under their financial crisis by injecting new capital into the (sometimes unwilling) banks and by showing that those banks could pass fairly rigorous stress tests in May 2009.

The new figure, which includes 10 billion euros that the International Monetary Fund has already committed, was included in the results of a rigorous stress test of the nation's banks.

Before giving approval, the Nuclear Regulation Authority wants more rigorous stress-testing of reactors around the country.

The crisis has clearly prompted changes to risk management and underwriting practices: more emphasis on affordability, more rigorous stress-testing, better pricing for borrowers with more equity to put in.

The FDIC's report, called the quarterly banking profile, comes a day after bank regulators began a rigorous stress-testing of the biggest U.S. banks to discover which ones are healthy and which ones require more capital.

This is a continental problem demanding a continental solution — rigorous new stress tests followed by recapitalization of weak institutions.

But in most respects they were as rigorous as stress tests carried out in America in 2009, which proved a turning point for the financial sector there.The tests did highlight weakness in Italy's banks, home to four of the institutions still in need of fresh funds.