Major companies are already seizing on water risk data.

Hence the rising risk of a major downturn and additional fiscal distress.

The association was present in all major regions of the world, with an estimated 46 increased risk following adjustment for other risk factors.

The Davos World Economic Forum ranks food insecurity as a major risk to humanity.

Climate change will be a major driver of such events, and we risk much worse.

They are major national assets that must be invested with attention to yield and risk.

Slow growth has hit equity valuations hard, and both economies are at risk of a major downturn.

Male infidelity within marriage is highlighted throughout the literature as a major risk factor for married women.

The major risk to the sustained role of the dollar is the large and growing US national debt.

The major sense of disappointment relates to neglect of the issues of disarmament and the risk of nuclear proliferation.

A major route is through initial public offering (IPO) which invites risk funding by the public for potential high gain.

b) urgently protect children in the twenty one West and Central African countries at risk of a major polio epidemic in 2005.

Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.

But, as local government debt grows, Chinese banks have begun to regard real estate and local financing platforms as a major credit risk.

Indeed, pay arrangements were a major contributing factor to the excessive risk taking by financial institutions that helped bring about the financial crisis.

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

And we have deemed fat the major public health risk in our world and fat people the cause of a range of social problems, from placing stress on health care systems to posing a risk to their own families.

To minimize the risk of an unruly collapse, it is necessary to approve an international resolution mechanism with authority over all major international financial institutions.

The true risk lies in the possibility that the renminbi is significantly undervalued and that appreciation would have a major impact on China s trade balance.

China can maintain its currency practices, but at the risk of large global macroeconomic imbalances and a major political backlash in the US and elsewhere.

Not six months later, in July 2002, Ethiopia announced a major food crisis, to the same proportions as 1984 14 million people at risk of starvation.

She tested positive for human papilloma virus, HPV a major risk factor for cervical cancer. She got treated immediately, and now goes in for regular checkups.

One major factor that induced excessive risk taking is that firms standard pay arrangements reward executives for short term gains, even when those gains are subsequently reversed.

The Centre publishes the Collection of biosafety reviews , a compilation of scientific studies in areas of major interest on biosafety and risk assessment by internationally recognized scientists.

In the broader physical world, occasional minor forest fires eliminate underbrush, reducing the risk of major conflagrations. Small ground tremors can ease seismic tension and forestall big earthquakes.

The major problem with the new credit line is that it runs the risk of unduly dividing developing countries into two categories, with significant additional risks for the latter.

If the economy cannot maintain high growth rates, mounting unemployment could combine with an accumulation of unresolved political and social issues to create a risk of major social unrest.

The immense growth of the welfare state and soaring public deficits and debt have become the major source of systemic economic risk at both the national and global level.

The major goal of each of these studies was to understand the protection and risk factors associated with child labour in indigenous communities from an intercultural and gender perspective.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

Over time, if uncorrected, major depression can cause such conditions as progressive mineral loss from bones, accumulation of abdominal fat, increased blood platelet reactivity, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

Another major risk of interest rate liberalization in China stems from rising public debt, particularly local government debt, which has grown significantly in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Conversely, major disasters, or the accumulation of risk from smaller but regular events, may cause environmental problems that impact on livelihoods and development options, for example where biodiversity is undermined.

Discussions during the Conference indicated that there appears to be a risk of a major setback to the achievements of the last two decades in reaching international consensus on global concerns.

Arms monitoring plays a major role in preventing legal weapons from ending up in the hands of those who might use them irresponsibly and thus raise the risk of unacceptable humanitarian consequences.

Unless there is major investment in post disarmament, demobilization and reintegration unless there is bold action to help out development it is obvious that there is a risk of relapsing into crisis.

Finally, monitoring and warning systems should be designed with the intent of serving to alert at risk populations about all major hazards in their area, and not exclusively about tsunamis and earthquakes.

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.

As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

Unfortunately, they are likely to remain unanswered without a major mandatory disclosure of data. Barring that, there is the risk that we will find out what caused this crisis after the next one.

Contrary to most commentary, this is not a growth strategy, but rather an attempt to limit the considerable risk of another major downturn, induced by further balance sheet damage in the housing sector.

Rather, the problem is a polarized Congress that has taken no major economic decisions in the last few years other than missteps (like the fiscal cliff) that risk tripping the economy into recession.

This peculiar arrangement is a further major risk for economic and monetary union, to add to those of uncoordinated fiscal policies and the lack of a European equivalent of the International Monetary Fund.

The financial products being created didn t manage risk they enhanced risk.

That risk would be exacerbated by the eruption of a major default related crisis within the eurozone, which might not be contained and, through a Lehman like domino sequence, could jeopardize the entire edifice.