With every statement, Putin erodes Russia s political risk profile.

Political risk and security of tenure present further obstacles to investors.

The big countries with the highest political risk are Russia and China.

But there is also a significant risk of political misuse of such information.

Taking on nuclear risk is not a necessity it is a deliberate political choice.

Chinese officials faced the risk of a dangerous interplay of political and economic instability.

Despite efforts to give it precision, estimating political risk is not an exact science.

As long as sustained economic improvement has not materialized, political risk will remain prevalent.

In estimating political risk today, analysts must pay particular attention to the character of the political system. Does it allow for an orderly transition?

I know that many of the government reforms I speak of require courage and political risk.

Forecasting models, based on normal distributions of risk over short slices of recent time, are notoriously incapable of capturing the real amount of risk in a political system.

The real risk concerns the potential for bad political choices to make climate policies worse than necessary.

To fail would risk igniting a severe political backlash, including a spontaneous escalation of anti regime activities.

The Orthodox Church has acquired enormous political clout in recent years, and few politicians risk offending it.

Integrating the presidency into broader political structures and procedures especially into party politics would reduce this risk.

Both sides need political leaders willing to take real risks for peace, including the risk of being killed. After all, ordinary soldiers take this risk, so why should political leaders who can do much greater good or ill be immune to it?

Failure to do so would bring the risk of still greater political problems after next June s European elections.

Political systems in which power is least controlled, and the abuse of wealth greatest, are most at risk.

For example, much of the Horn of Africa (particularly Somalia), Mali, and Guinea Bissau carry significant political risk.

Both sides need political leaders willing to take real risks for peace, including the risk of being killed.

There is, however, a genuine risk that the political momentum will dissipate as the world economy slowly recovers.

In addition, the parents, elderly persons without political affiliation, would thereby be placing themselves at risk of reprisal.

Furthermore, in respect of the State party's contention that the complainant's risk of being maltreated by political opponents falls outside the scope of article 3, it is submitted that the complainant does not claim a risk of maltreatment by political opponents, but by the Bangladeshi police.

And all of this would amplify rather than attenuate political polarization, placing other urgent policy priorities at even greater risk.

We condemn all acts of terrorism that adversely affect the people of Iraq and risk to destabilize the political process.

We know, or at least we ought to know, how to build political institutions that accept the mission of macroeconomic stabilization, and how to build financial institutions to mobilize risk bearing capacity and spread risk.

Or it can let its currency appreciate, at the risk of inducing a growth slowdown and political and social unrest at home.

Goodhart concedes that banks risk weightings in the pre recession period were subject to political pressure and financial industry capture and manipulation.

The CCP s monopoly of public moral authority is long gone, and now its monopoly of political power is at risk as well.

Previous reports of the Secretary General (A 59 228, A 58 277) have outlined regional political commitments made towards disaster risk reduction.

An energetic and daring gambler, Sarkozy is taking a high but legitimate risk that he can retake the moral (and political) high ground.

There is also the risk that the Games will become a political circus, as the international spotlight generates irresistible opportunities for public protest.

In some cases, there is also a risk that staff are appointed mainly on political grounds rather than based on their professional credentials.

Second, the costs of the insurance premium the outsize, largely dollar denominated reservoir of China s foreign exchange reserves have been magnified by political risk.

That is why risk premiums are continuing to fall in the eurozone, despite high political uncertainty in Italy and continuing large fiscal deficits elsewhere.

After all, ordinary soldiers take this risk, so why should political leaders who can do much greater good or ill be immune to it?

If risk takers were allowed to face more serious losses, they would have fewer resources to fight political attempts to constrain their risky activities.

The State party considers that the transfer of political power has therefore substantially reduced the complainant's risk of being subjected to detention and torture.

It concluded that the complainant's information about his political activities and that he had been subjected to torture did not justify the conclusion that he would risk political persecution or torture in Bangladesh if returned there.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

The political risk for both of them will be anything but small, but the alternative the failure of the euro is unacceptable for both countries.

By addressing economic instability through pro consumption rebalancing, and political instability by removing Bo, stability has gone from a risk factor to an ironclad commitment.

Instead of fighting on behalf of political and religious liberty, we risk engaging in a conflict with the false images that the terrorists have created.

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.

Critically, it could also serve to deliver high level political support so that we do not lose sight of those countries which are at risk.