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.

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.

Gravely concerned about the endangerment of the safety of the Agency's staff and about the damage caused to facilities of the Agency as a result of Israeli military operations during the reporting period,

Gravely concerned about the endangerment of the safety of the Agency's staff and about the damage caused to the facilities of the Agency as a result of Israeli military operations during the reporting period,

Gravely concerned about the endangerment of the safety of the Agency's staff and about the damage caused to the facilities of the Agency as a result of Israeli military operations during the reporting period,

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

UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Unit's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages (UNESCO 2003a UNESCO 2003b, c) uses this more pessimistic figure in their report, Language Vitality and Endangerment (http portal.unesco.org culture en file_download.php 1a41d53cf46e10710298d314450b97dfLanguage Vitality.doc).

The HIPPO juggernaut we have created, if unabated, is destined according to the best estimates of ongoing biodiversity research to reduce half of Earth's still surviving animal and plant species to extinction or critical endangerment by the end of the century.

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.

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.

Affirms the right of the Palestinian people to claim restitution as a result of any exploitation, damage, loss or depletion, or endangerment of their natural resources resulting from illegal measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem

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.

3. Recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to claim restitution as a result of any exploitation, damage, loss or depletion, or endangerment of their natural resources, and expresses the hope that this issue will be dealt with in the framework of the final status negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides

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.