The phrase
"worst scenario" refers to a situation or outcome that is the least favorable or most undesirable. It describes the worst possible circumstances or result that could occur.
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Or, in a
much worse scenario, they could do so well that they become a dreaded «invasive species» that takes over and pushes out native species.
They become aggressive and can't handle such emergency situation so it is important to calm them down and keep an emergency gear handy so that any
other worse scenarios can be easily avoided.
Find a hot button issue, do enough research to contrast an apparently
plausible worst scenario around it, and hang the thing on a screen - option friendly plot.
Without effective policy, we are looking at the difference between catastrophic climate change and
less worse scenarios.
It gets ever more expensive hedging against the last 20 %
of bad scenarios, and you might be missing out on the great returns in 40 % of scenarios.
This is an even
worse scenario when there is poop involved since he does not have solid poops yet.
DORMAN: «We have an assessment that is 100 percent core melt in an open containment and that's, as you would imagine, a very
bad scenario with reaching the protective action guidelines out to 50 miles down wind.»
The other planets are all less hospitable than Earth under the
very worst scenario of «APOCALYPSE OF SCREAMING BLOOD ON THE FRANKEN - EARTH OF DOOM.»
New Ebola research demonstrates that quick and forceful implementation of control interventions are necessary to control outbreaks and avoid
far worse scenarios.
Being a Giant Breed puppy with such big growth plates and bone still developing, this could have been a
lot worse scenario.
Our job is not only to
anticipate bad scenarios, but also help ensure we provide our customers with the satisfaction that only comes with knowing they can be covered from certain, unforeseen mishaps.»
As City is a high - performing vehicle with best in class features in it like (voice command with a touch screen, LED headlights) to be secured and properly insured
in worse scenarios.
Inflation will chip away at that between now and 2015, possibly by as much as 10 %, but many believe
much worse scenarios were being considered until recently.
A
far worse scenario can not be ruled out: some scientists believe the melting icecaps could release huge amounts of methane that accelerate warming forming a cloud layer so dense as to block out heat from the sun and cause the planet to go into a deep freeze that extinguishes all life.
Just as changes to climate can not be known exactly in advance, so the effects of changes to the economy can not be known exactly and there may be unforeseen consequences, just as the climate may warm in a very unlikely but
absolutely worst scenario.
An
even worse scenario is a distracted driver hitting an oncoming vehicle and killing an entire family.
«It's a
very bad scenario... You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel,» she said, adding that she was caught off - guard by the mayor's request.
In an it - could - have - been -
worse scenario, shareholder efforts in 2009 reportedly resulted in a drop in Isenberg's severance payout to $ 100 million from approximately $ 330 million, an amount that would have exceeded the company's 2011 nine - month earnings from continuing operations.
For some, it helps to play out
the worst scenario — the worst possible outcome is often not as bad as you're imagining.
YUANQING YANG: From a growth point of view, so definitely now Europe is
the worst scenario.
A worse scenario would be that RIM becomes the next Palm, a one - time leader that falls on its face and is eventually sold for scrap to a larger technology player.
The time involved in such transactions is an inconvenience in the best of circumstances — and can actually cost you money in
the worst scenarios.
If the planet is to avert
the worst scenarios for climate change, the optimistic long - run forecasts for oil demand growth put forward by energy giants such as Exxon can be thrown out the window.
If you can't afford
a bad scenario — especially retirees — ARMs for borrowers are reckless.
If I don't remember wrong, he says that a withdrawal rate of 4 % gives you 90 % chances of not running out of money, being
the worst scenario a bear market in the first years of retirement.
This stock would — in
the bad scenario — be returning 7.75 % more than idle funds left at the Fed.
«This society - gone -
bad scenario of denying basic care to citizens based on their income or social status seems on the big screen not only cruel and unusual but even incomprehensible,» he wrote.
The Times reports that in May 2015 one of the church's five lay trustees sent an email to the Anglican priest asking: «What if
the worst scenario occurs?
That, in
the worst scenario, they are fishing for dollars, for bucks, to win bets and Calcutta pools and cash prizes.