However, these tests only served to intensify uncertainty, creating a vortex of spiralling risk.
And it gave the Bush administration cover to ignore the ever-spiraling risks posed by derivatives and inadequate supervision.
Without it, Libya risks spiraling into wider violence.
Only this can calm a situation that risks spiraling out of control.
What began as a peaceful struggle to unseat a Yemeni strongman four years ago and then mutated into civil strife now risks spiraling into a full-blown war between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran over a country that lies at the choke point of one of the world's major oil supply routes.
The conflict risks spiraling into a proxy war with Shi'ite Iran backing the Houthis, whose leaders adhere to the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, and Saudi Arabia and the other regional Sunni Muslim monarchies backing Hadi.
Maybe one of those ideas will become a big genre?" The palette of game types is limited by many factors: spiralling budgets, risk-averse publishers, the simple fact that shooting and driving games lend themselves well to computational recreation.
In an editorial, the China Daily newspaper warned the situation in the Middle East risked spiraling out of control.
In the spring of 2006, as the war in Iraq risked spiraling into civil war, a group of retired officers openly called for firing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in what became known as "the generals' revolt".
The last time Pakistan announced the arrest of a Qaeda operative, in mid-May, the relationship between Pakistan and the United States risked spiraling out of control as the Pakistan Army and NATO helicopters exchanged fire on the Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan.
Without urgent and concerted action, the converging effects of climate change, abject poverty, and violent extremism at play in the Sahel risk spiraling out of control.
