Sentences with phrase «taking unacceptable risks»

Ministers are taking unacceptable risks with standards of patient care and they can not continue to ignore the warnings from nurses» and doctors» leaders.

«Each and every minister in this government is acutely aware that the plans we have in place are tough, in fact incredibly difficult, but we are clear that the alternative - indecision and delay - would mean taking unacceptable risks with our economy, our country and our people.

The precautionary principle asks of us to do more than we would like, but as long as it seems not completely impossible, we should try all we can, or else take unacceptable risks of catastrophe.

The problem with it is that it works fine if they happen to be right, but it takes an unacceptable risk of them being wrong.

Not exact matches

«The president put in place protections to ensure that the financial crisis is not repeated and that unacceptable risks aren't taken with Americans» life savings.»

Then again, there are many risks that Wall Street takes on where the probability of ruin is high enough to happen at least once in a lifetime, but adequate capital is not held because protecting against the meltdown scenario would make the return on equity unacceptable.

Buying individual frontier market stocks requires some serious research, and taking on that level of risk might be unacceptable to many investors.

This is an interesting question — if 2 degrees of warming represents an unacceptable risk of a runaway climate and global collapse, how much risk do we want to take?

Any engineering risk analysis would consider these unacceptable odds, but somehow we have decide it's OK to take these kinds of risks for our entire society.

The court's overall conclusion was that the bank «took on an unacceptable and unnecessary risk» and»... can blame no one but themselves...» and that, had the court found in favour of the bank, a reduction of 75 % for contributory negligence would have been «amply justified here».