Working in conjunction with risk management software, the sensor system was reducing the risk of potential environmental contamination from hydrocarbon spillage.

Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long term potential of our species.

The risk was that potential savings might not be identified, while the sale price determined could be inadequate.

However, anything you can do to decrease the risk of potential carcinogens can definitely increase the quality of lifestyle.

But like DIYbio, the positive outcomes and the potential for good for a study like that far outweighs the risk.

Systemic risk is intrinsic to globalization. Greater openness and integration necessarily increase the potential for cascading crises and amplification of shocks.

The Panel considers that these features of the claims population give rise to a potential risk of overstatement of the claims.

Both may be put at risk by adverse living conditions, neglect, insensitive or abusive treatment and restricted opportunities for realizing human potential.

On the question of exceptional risk, the declaration by the General Assembly or Security Council, which should constitute the basis for the trigger mechanism, should include measures to address exceptional risk, both actual and potential.

This new round of central bank activism reflects persistent concerns about economic growth. Despite a once unthinkable amount of monetary stimulus, global output remains well below potential, with the potential itself at risk of being suppressed.

The continued presence of organized and armed militias poses a major security risk that has the potential to disrupt the entire peace process.

Having put in place all feasible risk mitigation options, risk management moves towards finding ways to reduce the severity of potential loss and damage and often implies establishing safety and emergency response teams, technologies and procedures.

However, small ads magazines and newspapers do carry advertisements for escort agencies, a sector where there is a potential risk of trafficking in women.

The Government of Lithuania understands the potential risk of international terrorism and believes that collective efforts to prevent terrorism minimize the possibility of terrorist attacks.

The risk of chemical weapons proliferation looms ever larger, particularly in view of the potential for terrorists to acquire chemical weapons and the materials for their production.

This confluence of economic incentives to take on risk makes bank managers poor guardians of financial safety. They surely do not want their bank to fail but, if the potential upside is large enough, it is a risk they may find worth taking.

But in the light of the potential risk posed by terrorists exploiting loopholes, we urge those Governments to seek assistance in meeting their obligations rather than simply giving up.

In collaboration with the UNHCR e Centre in Japan, for example, the Office had introduced risk management tools which assisted colleagues to weigh operational needs against potential security risks.

Each potential innovator faces a large upside, but also a high degree of risk. If the innovation is successful, its pioneer reaps a large gain, as does society at large.

LONDON Yemen has suddenly joined Afghanistan and Pakistan as a risk to global security. Indeed, it is increasingly seen as a nascent failed state and potential replacement host for Al Qaeda.

However, the potential drawback with Identifier evidence is that access to some of it may be regarded by its owner as too intrusive, in terms of national security or proliferation risk.

Since then, in line with the infamous clash of civilizations approach, the prevailing ideology had been to consider any person of foreign descent a potential terrorist or an at risk individual.

As noted in that report, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo enters the electoral phase, the provinces of Katanga and the Kasaïs are considered areas of extremely high potential risk.

All departments and branch offices shall voluntarily carry out self inspections on compliance as a routine task, report compliance risk information or potential risks to the compliance department or the compliance posts, and support and cooperate with the compliance department or the compliance posts in risk monitoring and evaluation.

Now, the CDS market offers a convenient way of shorting bonds, but the risk reward asymmetry works in the opposite way. Shorting bonds by purchasing a CDS contract carries limited risk but almost unlimited profit potential, whereas selling a CDS contract offers limited profits but practically unlimited risks.

Fortunately, the possibility of such a perfect storm is more a risk than a baseline at this point. Nonetheless, given the extent of its destructive potential, it warrants serious attention by policymakers.

Purpose of support and protection to ensure protection of the physical, moral and psychological integrity of witnesses, as there is a real, well founded risk of danger, potential intimidation and imminent reprisals.

In view of the risk of non State actors acquiring weapons delivery systems, NATO had undertaken technical work to respond to the proliferation of such systems and their potential use by terrorists.

And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.

As a consequence, in addition to the potential risk of inadequate segregation of duties, overall responsibility for controlling and maintaining the integrity of financial accounting records is not fixed explicitly with one unit.

The practical management of high risk (adventure) tourism and its potential impact on national programmes and tour operators in terms of search and rescue operations for unsupported adventure tourists is a growing concern.

The risk increased in June, when federal authorities announced that potential sponsors and other adult members of their households would have to submit fingerprints, and that the data would be shared with immigration authorities.

This information can be used statistically to make a prognosis of potential risk in the occurrence of a catastrophe or for the production of thematic maps that show the spatial context in which hazards occur.

Warren Buffet showed another way, in providing equity to Goldman Sachs. By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public s downside risk and ensures that they participate in some of the upside potential.

The exposure of BiH population to risk factors, such as smoking, increased blood pressure, increased level of sugar in blood, increased cholesterol, and other fats in blood, physical inactivity, risk from sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS), etc. that can significantly influence the health potential of individuals and the society as a whole is significantly increasing.

The real risk concerns the potential for bad political choices to make climate policies worse than necessary. The EU did not just implement a single carbon market in order to meet its target for CO2 emissions.

Startup companies exemplify the potential benefits of risk taking. While only about 49 of manufacturing startups and 37 of information startups survive for four or more years, those that do have managed to produce breakthrough innovations.

Geothermal potential amounts to 990 MW and wind potential to 600 MW.

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They also claimed that they were victims because of their membership of a particular group of potential victims the authors, together with any other Jews or immigrants, faced an imminent risk of suffering racial discrimination, hatred or violence.

Indeed, most established parties are so busy playing defense that they have little inclination to engage in the type of forward looking strategic thinking that is needed to re energize exhausted growth models, anchor financial stability, and ensure that technological innovation enables broad based prosperity. As a result, Western economies are running chronically below their potential and risk undermining their future potential.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

The findings of the mapping exercise served as an important tool in the vetting of candidates for the elections, and the risk of disqualification due to linkages with armed groups served as a catalyst for potential candidates to disarm.

This compares with their major alternatives, HCFC 22 (global warming potential 1,780), HFC 134a (global warming potential 1,410), and HFC 141b (global warming potential 713).

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