When a country engages in the world, its authority stems from its willingness and ability to take personal risks.

Indeed, one characteristic sign of economic vitality is the frequency of bankruptcy, for business failures indicate a willingness to gamble and take risks on innovation.

It is people s willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

After all, science is a form of enterprise, requiring a sophisticated organization of resources and workers, an adventuresome attitude, and a willingness to take risks for possibly great rewards.

India s willingness to spend when everyone else is attempting to sell and save entails risks that need to be carefully managed.

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information. It is people s willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

Investors take all kinds of risks.

In order to do that, you have to take risks.

So why should they take unnecessary risks?

Where they have the same kind of security to take risks.

So it is right to take the risks that change requires.

These asset bubbles were inflated by lax lending standards and an excessive willingness to borrow, which seemed similar to the Greek government s willingness to take on debt to pay lavish pensions.

Moreover, a counter cyclical policy would signal to the world these countries willingness to take on global responsibilities.

When a country engages in the world, its authority stems from its willingness and ability to take personal risks. Its authority is diminished when the perceived gap between the value of its population s lives and the lives of its enemies is too wide.

Such structures would provide incentives to take risks that are closer to the optimal level.

Individuals are more willing to take risks if there is a good safety net.

It was not just Europe that benefited from China s willingness to take on the mantle of lender of last resort.

Fifth, the Palestinian leadership cannot be expected to take risks for peace without political protection.

Clearly, environmental risks are potentially large enough to affect countries economies in ways that could influence their willingness or ability to repay sovereign debt. In addition, these risks vary widely across countries, including countries whose current credit ratings suggest similar levels of sovereign risk.

Because such a compensation structure would expose executives to a broader share of the negative consequences of risks taken, it would reduce their incentives to take excessive risks.

So once again, why do we take these crazy risks with the precious?

The left offered big concessions and was ready to take high risks for the sake of peace.

Being willing to fight to the last Israeli is a familiar pattern for those disinclined to take risks themselves.

North Korea has long been adept at flaunting its willingness to take risks, provoking a crisis in 2010 by sinking a South Korean naval vessel and shelling a South Korean island. This spring, it conducted a nuclear test and a series of missile tests, accompanied by a stream of bellicose rhetoric.

Captains of innovation usually take risks without knowing the end result of their actions.

Does Brown have the stomach to take on the risks involved in confronting the Iraq question? Possibly not.

They want the liberation of a grand challenge. They want to take risks with technology, not with people.

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

For example, by stating their willingness to take any territorial disputes to the International Court of Justice, Japanese authorities could help to dispel perceptions of militarism.

The main part of the banking system was able to take risks without having to foot the bill for failure.

They must include a willingness and a capability to take bold and concrete political actions that will lead to the removal of real or perceived injustices.

Rewarding bankers for short term results, even when those results are subsequently reversed, produces incentives to take excessive risks.

America s military presence in Europe will be gradually reduced, as will its willingness to take the lead in international crises even those affecting Europe s interests.

New Arab leaders will struggle mightily with the public s rising expectations, and their willingness to get behind a peace process will take a backseat to that struggle.

In order to reduce disaster risks, countries and communities must first identify risk factors, decide what level of risk is acceptable, and then take steps to reduce risks or transfer them away from affected areas.

He reiterated his willingness and the determination of the Government of Uganda to continue to take measures to provide security for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and relief.

And he knew that it gives us a sense of trust, and it allows us then to take the kind of creative risks that we need to take as designers.

Prudent lenders therefore try to limit both how much a business can borrow and the other risks it can take.

They talked about the willingness to say, I love you first, the willingness to do something where there are no guarantees, the willingness to breathe through waiting for the doctor to call after your mammogram.

Reasons for this include their relatively greater ability to take risks, their better access to finance, and their maturity and readiness to internationalize.

Finally, let me take this opportunity also to assure the Council of the Danish Government's continued willingness to provide funds in response to the numerous humanitarian crises in Africa.

Of course, nobody likes to refer to tribalism or clan conflict, but these elements of identity often play a key role in determining people s willingness to take to the streets.

If he succeeds as a super Keynes, no one will have had to take any risks with their own political future.

In most other projects, the private sector entrepreneurs are expected to bear the primary risks and take on the majority stakes.

In fact, developments or fashions in other academic disciplines and also in the general culture contributed at least as much to a willingness to engage in absurd risks and to provide and accept valuations of complex and inherently unfathomable securities.