Liability for intentional or reckless behaviour

Reckless driving can easily lead to an accident.

It was reckless of her to trust him.

It was a little reckless, but you know, I was 16.

There are some reckless people, but it s not worth it, OK?

When our fears are unbounded and overblown, we're reckless, and we're cowardly.

A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.

Yes, these are controversial policies. Debt forgiveness raises thorny ethical concerns about condoning reckless and irresponsible behavior.

But, you know, I think reckless curiosity would be what the world needs now, just a little bit.

But while Abe may be known for his boldness, he is no reckless gambler. On the contrary, he would have been reckless to launch the third arrow of his so called Abenomics strategy for reviving Japan s economy supply side structural reforms without a clear mandate for reform.

It is this underlying assumption of limitlessness that makes it possible to take the reckless risks that we do.

We have the reckless burning of fossil fuels along with other greenhouse gasses, so called, leading to climate change.

Martin Luther King said that love without power is anemic and sentimental, and that power without love is reckless and abusive.

Our own experience in Rwanda has shown us that insecurity caused by reckless and irresponsible governance can cause immense suffering, adverse to human development.

Second, repeal of the Glass Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking, was a mistake. The old model of private partnerships in which partners had an incentive to monitor each other to avoid reckless investments gave way to one of public companies aggressively competing with each other and with commercial banks to achieve ever rising profitability, which was achievable only with reckless levels of leverage.

According to US law, such actions would amount to reckless endangerment or culpable negligence. Yet politicians are taking citizens on precisely such a ride and facing very little pushback.

America provided China with both stability and growth anchors. China enabled the US to sidestep the mounting perils of subpar saving, reckless fiscal policy, and weak household income growth.

But in 2007, at the height of the sub prime and all the complicated financial structures, it was quite opposite to the reckless risk taking behaviors that we saw on the market.

At that time, there were two schools of thought. One camp argued that it would be reckless to create a monetary union before economic policies had converged and institutional reforms were complete.

Governments and citizens in Europe have paid and are still paying an astronomically high price for the reckless lending and investment of the 2000s. Understandably, they do not want to repeat the experience.

But this was just the flip side of what Keynes had worried about insufficient global aggregate demand. The search for return contributed to the reckless leverage and risk taking that underlay this crisis.

At times, the Government of Singapore is obliged to take strong enforcement action to change the mindsets of road users and make them think twice before engaging in reckless or dangerous road behaviour.

The possibility of inserting in a separate paragraph of draft article 88a (5) a reference to liability for intentional or reckless behaviour should be the object of further discussion at a future session.

I went back to South Carolina after some 15 years amid the alien corn at the tail end of the 1960s, with the reckless condescension of that era thinking I would save my people.

Consumers made huge bets on two bubbles housing and credit. Reckless monetary and regulatory policies turned the humble abode into an ATM, allowing families to extract dollars from bubbles and live beyond their means.

But this is hardly a sufficient observation, because excessive pre crisis real estate investment made a sharp downward adjustment inevitable. The reckless construction of condominiums without buyers and airports without passengers had to stop.

The delay in reaching an agreement enabled most private creditors to escape the consequences of their reckless lending to Greece. Roughly half of Greece s external debt migrated from the private sector to official institutions.

The high number of shots discharged in the direction of all three suspects (rather than at the shooter) suggests the officers were shooting with intent to kill or reckless disregard of such a consequence.

Right now is precisely the time to do so, given that the United States has become, without rival, the world s most reckless borrower. The US is draining a whopping 75 of the world s surplus savings.

Since citizens militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny. A reckless, right wing Supreme Court has agreed with them.

The global economic crisis not only hit the country hard, but, because of irresponsible electioneering, the previous government did not even try to fight it. Reckless populist promises left a gaping 16 of GDP budget deficit.

section 103.1(1) a person commits an offence if the person provides or collects funds and the person is reckless as to whether the funds will be used to facilitate or engage in a terrorist act.

He expressed the hope that this achievement would be consolidated by the rapid removal of punitive measures and restrictions that were imposed on Iraq by the international community because of the reckless policies of the previous regime.

In Europe, the pre crisis boom in real estate investment was fueled by reckless credit flows from Northern to Southern Europe. Credit rationing has followed, as banks reduced their overburdened balance sheets and were discouraged from risk taking.

Then the Bush administration s reckless fiscal policy pushed it lower. Falling interest rates in recent years pushed up real estate prices and allowed America s upper middle class to treat their houses as enormous ATM s, lowering savings still more.

Therefore, the Anti Secession Law is of great importance for opposing and checking the reckless secessionist activities in the name of Taiwan independence , and for maintaining peace, stability and prosperity in the Taiwan Strait and the Asia Pacific region.

Indeed, there is a worrying aspect to the new plans they must tread a narrow path between reckless freedom for financial institutions, which contributed to the recent global financial crisis, and over caution, which can suffocate innovation and create inefficiencies.

What China really needs is a truly independent monetary policy oriented to domestic objectives. This would enable the PBC to manage domestic demand by allowing interest rates to rise in order to rein in credit growth and deter reckless investment.

The last thing China needs is more fiscal stimulus. Today s cyclical disruption pales in comparison to that of 2008 2009, and, unlike the fiscally reckless developed economies, China recognizes excessive government nbsp debt as a legitimate nbsp threat to sustainable growth and development.

In other words, deliberative democracy perhaps our most important safeguard against headstrong and reckless action worked at the UN, but not in the US. Unfortunately, the UN could not prevent the US and other countries from taking actions that almost surely contravene international law.

Now I'm not going to belabor this point, but studies do show that, as investors, women are much less prone to taking reckless risks than men, precisely because, as we've already heard, women tend not to suffer from overconfidence in the same way that men do.

It is easy to blame Obama, or the reckless Republicans, for this sorry state of affairs. But that would miss the most important point about America s role in the world The same idealism that made Kennedy so popular is also driving the decline in America s international prestige.

Some argue that furnishing members with rapid and front loaded liquidity insurance would encourage irresponsible policies or reckless borrowing. Admittedly, it could help members cope better with volatility and, therefore, be more open to inflows of short tern capital, but this need not result in bad policies.

section 101.4(2) a person commits an offence if the person possesses a thing and the thing is connected with preparation for, the engagement of a person in, or assistance in a terrorist act and the person is reckless as to the existence of the connection.