Sentence examples for the medium-term risk from inspiring English sources

Focus only on more rules and the medium-term risk is of a colossal, semi-socialised banking system crawling with outgunned, possibly captive regulators.

"This will be immediately beneficial for our experts, but the medium-term risk is this sees inflation imported with the rising cost of goods and services from abroad," Griffiths explained.

For the first time, they also signaled that further "unwelcome" declines in inflation were a greater immediate concern than the medium-term risk of faster growth leading to accelerating inflation.

"The numbers suggest that, despite the medium-term risk of a housing bubble, banks are much more willing to take a punt on the housing market than on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and this is consistent with the consumer driven growth that has stylised recent UK output growth," said Carl Astorri, senior economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club.

Reflecting that medium-term risk, Ireland's two-year and five-year paper are yielding around 12percentt, more than its 10-year bonds on the secondary market.

"The main medium-term risk for advanced economies is a further decline of already-low growth into near stagnation, particularly if global demand falters further as prospects weaken for emerging market and developing economies," the WEO said.

The real medium-term risk for Mr Brown is subtler, and perhaps even less soluble.It is that his Scottishness will reinforce the view that, even more than most politicians, Mr Brown is a sort of intellectual Martian.

Now many economists are taking the short- to medium-term risk to jobs far more seriously, and some think the potential scale of change may be huge.

A Merrill Lynch oil analyst said last summer that Hamburg-born Lord Browne's impending retirement was a "potential medium-term risk for shareholders," reflecting growing jitters in the City over BP's prospects once the Cambridge University and Stanford Business School-educated executive leaves the helm.

A recent Audit Commission report says auditors consider 43% of larger single-tier councils and 34% of district councils to be at short- or medium-term risk.

Credit Suisse First Boston, in a report on Venezuela's economic prospects, says that a witch hunt within Pdvsa, hurting oil production, is a "potential medium-term risk if Chávez loses office".