Sentences with phrase «risked handing power»

Writing in his weekly column in The Daily Telegraph, he said Conservative MPs would be «utterly nuts» to desert the party as they simply risked handing power to Labour at the next general election.

The paper also reported that a «kamikaze» group of right - wing Tory MPs said they could be willing to risk handing power to Jeremy Corbyn to kill off moves to reverse Brexit.

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Inflation, on the other hand, presents a completely different risk of reduced purchasing power.

To leave roads and railroads, electric and power utilities in private hands ran the risk of private owners «rack - renting» the population, adding to the cost of living and doing business.

It may be pertinent to mention that the book value of the power plant which is currently estimated at USD 325 million after five (5) years, with a life cycle of around 15 -20 years, will be handed over to the Government as a debt free asset which can be used to leverage and raise financing as a collateral or else the Government may choose to sell the operating asset to any investor who may not like to take any development risk, hence the plant being operational and in its best conditions.

He also declared he was indeed a safe pair of hands, as often claimed as a disguised criticism, but someone who was prepared to take risks to win power and modernise the party.

Hands on Deck Human controllers at right and above can override computers if power is at risk.

In 2010, researchers Amy Cuddy, Dana Carney and Andy Yap reported that people who adopted expansive postures — so - called «power poses,» like putting your hands on your hips — had higher levels of the «macho» hormone testosterone and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and were more likely to take risks than those who struck more timid poses, such as crossing your arms.

Of the significant risks involved, Heineman is philosophical, saying, «I felt this huge duty and a huge obligation to capture what I was seeing, to capture the murky world of vigilantism, the grayness that emerges when citizens take the law into their own hands, and what happens when men with guns take power.

Fourth, concentration of market power in the hands of a few large certifiers makes it easier to coordinate the development and enforcement of industry standards... Any agency that fails to conform to these standards risks losing accounts to competitors.

I also recognize the fact that Amazon is a gigantic corporation — and perhaps even one that is using books as a loss leader for other products — and there are risks of having a lot of market power concentrated in the hands of single entity.

On the other hand, if you wanted to reduce your risk of purchasing power loss you could buy a bond aggregate fund which pays about 2 % every year and has a duration of about 5.5 years.

Boss battles, on the other hand, become a delicate balancing act: Will you risk Velvet's survivability for a burst of power, or play the long game?

He warns, for example, that ramping up nuclear power too fast could lead to a risk of nuclear materials for bombs falling into the wrong hands.

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