Some people feared that London's predominance as a world financial centre could be put at risk.
Yet Western capital is lining up to be put at risk in China, including in its banks.
Lives will be put at risk if the health service does not change, First Minister Carwyn Jones has said.
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This is to ensure that the sick, vunerable, and those in need of urgent help will not be put at risk.
The chamber of trade said at the time the town's "thriving" high street could be put at risk by the supermarket.
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But there are also jobs at stake -- 37, 000 jobs could be put at risk if the production tax credit is not extended.
School dinners will be put at risk by new premises regulations that no longer require schools to have proper kitchens and canteens, say campaigners.
The National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) has also voiced its concerns, saying up to 750 jobs could be put at risk in Wales.
"Welfare for the vulnerable cannot be put at risk by reliance on organisations who threaten to pull out, rather than apply the law, " he said.
Governments fret that their national sovereignty would be put at risk.
The medium-term goal of price stability might be put at risk.
The future of the Takeover Panel has been particularly controversial, as some people fear London's predominance as a world financial centre could be put at risk.
However, Ms Wallace said if the council went ahead with its proposal to almost halve its budget, the reality was lives would be put at risk.
It was claimed that patients could be put at risk because the ambulance service did not know exactly how much money it has to spend this year.
Proposals for a nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast could be put at risk if local calls for investment are ignored, a council planner has warned.
But they warned that the economic recovery could be put at risk if consumers remained less willing to spend in the face of high inflation and non-existent wage growth.
He said many village pubs could not compete with the low prices offered in supermarkets and some city centre pubs and that their business could be put at risk.
Unless regulations are relaxed to allow more short-term workers into Britain, full-time British jobs will be put at risk and the demand for illegal labour will continue to grow.
"Victims of crime need a cast iron assurance from the SNP that their safety will not be put at risk if more offenders serve their sentences in our communities, " she said.
In a guide leaflet to staff about violence, the ambulance trust said that whilst it was "committed to providing high quality patient care", it may "withdraw its services to individuals where staff may be put at risk".
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But Julian Young, a solicitor advocate - a solicitor qualified to represent clients in the higher courts - said prisoners could be put at risk if all the judge's remarks, including personal information and previous convictions, were televised.
No, said Paul Davies, he did not believe Welsh jobs would be put at risk if Wales were no longer part of the EU. Neither did he believe that Carwyn Jones was right to say inward investment would inevitably fall away.
The proposal for neonatal care has provoked widespread opposition from campaigners who claim sick babies will be put at greater risk.
But one police crew member, speaking anonymously to BBC News, said lives would be "put at risk or possibly lost" because it would take too long to get to incidents.
These should not be projects that put the business at risk, but prove the technology and business cases around the use of cloud.
The QAA watchdog, which the MPs want to replace, warns that "care needs to be taken that we do not put at risk the benefits of a diverse and flexible higher education system".
Of course, doctors and firms that step over the line to put patients at risk should be punished.
Greece could not be allowed to "put global economic recovery at risk".
So should freedom of expression (or freedom to be satirical) be subject to self-restraint when it might otherwise be misinterpreted and in the process put lives at risk?
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