Good security is costly, but bad security can be fatal to business and entrepreneur alike.
While vetting is critical, vetting too early can be fatal to the company as a whole longer-term.
The anonymity of virtual communities appeared to be fatal to the creation of trust and of real civic bonds.
The concessions may not be fatal to the government's documentation drive (some retailers can defer declaring their stocks and will not be subject to on-the-spot inspections, though they will remain liable for audit).
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Mr Darling's memoirs are a timely reminder that lack of credibility in this area can be fatal to a political party's fortunes, even one with a leader rather nicer to be around than Mr Brown.
Mr Merloni believes it would be fatal to be distracted from his firm's focus on white goods. (A family holding company oversees unrelated investments, notably in energy.) Fiat diversified way beyond cars, spanning tractors to financial services.
But much of that dip appears to be the result of microbes using oxygen to dissolve oil underwater, and the decline is not enough to be fatal to marine life, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official Steve Murawski, the head the Joint Analysis Group studying the spill's impact.
When C. difficile bacteria overwhelm the gut, it can be fatal and difficult to treat with antibiotics.
This would spell the end of Swiss banking secrecy and be a fatal blow to other tax havens.
Infection can be fatal or lead to complications such as blindness or epilepsy, and current drugs are often ineffective.
The sharp rises in royalty fees could be "fatal" to the nascent industry, a coalition of web broadcasters has claimed.
Its onset is rapid and insidious, and it can be fatal within 24 to 48 hours of the first non-specific symptoms.
But there is a very strong likelihood that it would be a fatal blow to the chances of a negotiated settlement with Iran.
The drugmakers took them to the FDA anyway, hoping that trends toward survival in diseases that are almost always fatal would be enough to get the compounds on the market.
The point is that those who lend to banks can't be sure where the fatal direct exposures to Greece, or Portugal, or Ireland lie.
Trying to build a new core consumer at this stage of business maturity may prove to be fatal.
There are suggestions it can make some diseases both more likely to occur and more likely to be fatal.
This parasite weakens the immune systems of bees, making the consequences of an infection more likely to be fatal.
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Australia barred British beef and by-products in 1996 as concerns mounted that mad cow disease could be linked to the fatal human condition, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).
The fact is, people are living longer, with more and more complications of the inevitable wear and tear on our bodies, or with painful serious diseases that used to be fatal much sooner.
Firms that produce pesticides, and the authorities that regulate them, are aware of the importance of bees to food production, and new products must be tested to make sure they are not fatal to helpful insects.
Women with metastatic cancer, which has spread beyond the breast and is more likely to be fatal, sometimes feel left out when the focus of awareness is on curable, small tumors, says Christopher Friese, an oncology nurse and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.
Looking forward, we propose that accusations of this sort, particularly those that purport to reveal fatal flaws or deceit, be subjected to fact-finding and full peer-review before publication.
The technique could be used to prevent debilitating and fatal "mitochondrial" diseases, which are passed down only from mother to child.
But the future of the project received what appears to be a fatal blow when the Welsh government published a review in 2010 on the feasibility of the new centre, and funding arrangements for residential provision on the Harlech campus.
Oil-industry analysts believe that cutting the flow of Saudi oil to the U.S. would be painful--but far from fatal--to the U.S. economy.
The UN has warned the homes would be "an almost fatal blow" to peace hopes.
Fortunately, diabetes and allergic reactions are more likely to be inconvenient than fatal.
In October, a great white shark killed a US diver in what was thought to be the second fatal shark attack in Western Australia in 12 days.
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