• MPs would probably buck the party whips, and Mr Straw is unlikely to want to precipitate his government's first parliamentary defeat.

    ECONOMIST: Pressure grows for a plebiscite on Europe

  • Do they want to precipitate a long, deep recession here and abroad?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Three years ago, a sharp rise in American interest rates helped to precipitate the Mexican crash, since it prompted some investors to move their money north.

    ECONOMIST: Latin America

  • None of the players wants to precipitate the crisis further but is bound by their role in the game to shout out when some kind of infringement occurs.

    FORBES: European Crisis Lurches With Portuguese Downgrade

  • There is an alternative to precipitate action on the treaty.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The illusory verification gap

  • It is absolutely true that this is not going to precipitate the kind of crisis we talked about with America defaulting and some of the problems around the debt ceiling.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Makes a Statement on the Sequester

  • The theory is that higher shortterm rates inhibit lending and investment, helping to precipitate the slowdown, while the low long-term rates anticipate a later cooling of demand for borrowed money.

    FORBES: Curveball

  • "It is absolutely true that this is not going to precipitate the kind of crisis we talked about with America defaulting and some of the problems around the debt ceiling, " Mr. Obama said.

    WSJ: Obama, Congressional Leaders Meet on Sequester

  • Money, reduced to bits on a fiber optic wire, could now be moved from account to account, country to country, in microseconds...so quickly that it rarely ever even needs to precipitate into actual currency.

    FORBES: Malone's Musing

  • It took a number of years of flawed policy decisions, of an absence of appropriate oversight and regulation, of unfortunate risky behavior in our financial markets to precipitate the economic free fall that we all experienced in 2008 and 2009.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • But, according to George Buckley of Deutsche Bank, the base rate would have to rise from its current 38-year low of 4% to around 7.5% to precipitate a full-scale bust, and he is expecting rates to rise to no more than 5%.

    ECONOMIST: Housing

  • Craig Bidois, a former UN security advisor who runs the New Zealand-based travel security firm Fear Free, said governments take many factors into consideration before instituting a travel warning, and crime is more likely to precipitate a travel warning if foreign nationals have been actually singled out as targets.

    BBC: Central America��s shift in safety

  • The onset of Mr. Bush's clinical case of the syndrome can be traced to his precipitate decision to stop the war with Iraq.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Return of the syndrome

  • We cannot sit idly by as a government that embraces this vision obtains the means to help precipitate it.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Soul-trying times

  • Washington fails to grasp that a return to traditional lending standards would precipitate a return to traditional prices, which are way below current levels.

    FORBES: From Subprime To The Ridiculous

  • The Republican leadership appear worried that an unseemly zeal to slash spending and precipitate a melodramatic showdown with the Democrats would alienate moderate voters at the general election next year.

    ECONOMIST: Bickering and stalemate loom for America��s new Congress

  • The fury of a single monsoon cloudburst can precipitate enough water to overflow river banks.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • Suffice it to say though that no good can come of such brazen associations and that we should be doing everything possible to ascertain what they will precipitate.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Protecting Chavez, endangering America?

  • In turn the ECB would have to close the gates to Greek financial institutions and would precipitate a further financial crisis.

    FORBES: Bond Prices Weaken As Stocks Rebound On Merger Monday

  • It underscores the fragility of what is currently the only rapidly expandable source of the crude which if taken off-line would precipitate an immediate end to any recovery, and probably serious and lasting economic dislocation.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Welcome to World War IV

  • "(Withdrawing) would likely precipitate a further blow to efforts to stabilize the situation on the ground, and render the prospect of a negotiated Syrian-led transition, as laid out by the Action Group, more difficult, " Ban writes.

    CNN: U.N. head outlines options for Syria mission

  • The aim is to produce a statement at the end of the meeting pledging there will be no precipitate closures of the homes, which provide care to 31, 000 elderly residents.

    BBC: Southern Cross to lose hundreds of care homes

  • In any event, as Ewanick and GM now move in separate directions, their unusually precipitate split is more likely to be the subject of schadenfreude than sympathy in the industry.

    FORBES: Ewanick Failed at GM Because Omission Became Main Mission

  • Now, that is why it is so essential that the world community come together and unify to pressure Assad and isolate Assad, and help precipitate a situation where that political transition can take place.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And we shouldn't be using tax dollars to reward the same irresponsible lenders or borrowers who helped precipitate the crisis.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses Business and Tourism Leaders

  • In an odd three-degrees-of-separation, White's old job as head of equity capital markets at Credit Suisse was reclaimed by Ernesto Cruz, who is married to Zoe Cruz , the former head of fixed income at Morgan Stanley whose promotion to co-president of the firm in March helped precipitate the management turmoil.

    FORBES: Lewis's BofA Adds Morgan Stanley Veteran

  • Mining the moon for fuel used in nuclear fusion reactors is among NASA's 200-plus set of mission goals and could precipitate another reason for other countries and private investors to join future lunar exploration.

    CNN: Mining the moon for a nuclear future

  • And with the budget due to be debated towards the end of next month, that could precipitate a serious political and constitutional crisis.

    BBC: Zambia fails to elect speaker

  • Any precipitate action by Gujral could cause Yadav and his supporters to break away -- which would deal a severe blow to the government, if not bring it down completely.

    CNN: On the Edge Again

  • All of the services have their own ways of determining qualifications and skill and what is the difference between physical strength and ability, but the gentleman raised a very important issue, and that is the draft, because one of the unintended consequences of this kind of legislation could be to take a problem in recruiting women into support positions and then precipitate a crisis.

    NPR: Women in Combat: Rules and Reality

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