Sentence examples for understood risks from inspiring English sources

The Europeans drank the Basel II Kool-Aid, and their banks loaded up on poorly understood risks.

Some argue that focusing on worst-case, least-certain events could lead people to play down the better understood risks posed by steady global warming.

Civil nuclear power is shrouded in the UK not to protect facts from terrorists but because it has well understood risks and is captured under the Official Secrets Act.

In recent months, new concerns have emerged about whether the ubiquitous nature of broadband technology, instant message communications and digital imagery is presenting new and poorly understood risks to children.

UniCredit said in a statement that it had always taken "a prudent, not aggressive" approach to foreign-currency lending and required loan applicants to have a special advisory session to ensure that they understood risks.

Removing objects from the cooling pond under normal situations is a routine event with well understood risks but the situation described in this paper is not a routine event.

We have always said that DU can represent a low level and well- understood risk.

As one experienced observer puts it: "The big problem is the CQC has never understood risk.

Mr. Nickerson said that he thought the plant was safe, but that he understood risk.

Even correctly understood risk information did not necessarily lead to the intended risk reduction behaviors [5].

As Hemingway understood, risk is a big part of the challenge.