Sentence examples for risky events from inspiring English sources

The analysis uses data on near accidents or risky events and translates that data into an estimate on safety.

Volunteers rode a moped in a fixed-base virtual environment and were presented with a number of preset risky events.

Response times to risky events have been seen to increase with the use of adaptive cruise control (ACC).

Since projects are subjected to uncertainties either due to external or internal factors, risk management is needed to reduce the probability of occurrence and/or the negative impact of risky events (Fan et al. 2008).

Vulnerability is thus comprised of risks or a chain of risky events that households confront in pursuit of their livelihoods, the sensitivity of livelihood to these risks, the response or options that households have for managing these risks and finally the outcomes that describe the loss in wellbeing (Turner et al. [2003]).

Unlike most of traffic safety treatments that prevent crashes, road barriers reduce the severity of crash outcomes by replacing crashes with a high risk of severe injury and fatality (such as median crossover head-on collisions or collisions with high-hazard objects) with less risky events (such as collisions with barriers).

Since utility functions are subjective, different firms and people can approach any given risky event with quite different valuations.

Tory strategists know it's a risky event, with Mr Cameron lined up alongside six opponents.

Optimism bias is often amplified when the risky event is regarded as controllable and can be prevented through caution or effort.

Hausman argued that the way birth is defined as a risky event, leads to the over use of medical intervention and technology by physicians, even in the case of normal births [ 29].

Similarly, an Ethiopian study reports that mothers who considered pregnancy a risky event were more likely to seek ANC services compared to those who considered pregnancy risk-free, and those who lived less than one hour from a health facility were four times more likely to use ANC than those who lived more than two hours away [ 22].