And while the rules left abuse and excess unchecked, they also left taxpayers on the hook if a big bank or financial institution ever failed.
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There is little doubt that a continuation of our current spending policies is unsustainable and, left unchecked, will have long-term deleterious effects on the economy.
The letter asks members to make a determination that the refugee influx, "if left unchecked and in the absence of the financial assistance required to enable Jordan to cope, " constitutes a threat to international peace and security, a statement obtained by AP said.
Inept management, over-mighty unions and crippling pension costs were left unchecked for too long, as richer countries' steel industries were protected behind tariff barriers.
Just take a look at some of the plugged and abandoned wells around that have been left unchecked for the last twenty years.
Gura said the appeals court rulings on the New York and Maryland laws, "if left unchecked, will accelerate the lower courts' resistance" to the Supreme Court's endorsement of gun rights.
"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel .
"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
"This is a heartbreaking example of how the win-at-all-costs culture of sport, if left unchecked, will overtake fair, safe and honest competition, " he said.
Left unchecked, the next decade is shaping up to be a rough one for Harry and Louise.
The sudden and wholesale destruction of the pseudo-property system for information goods is not the solution, though left unchecked that is the natural response of the transaction cost-free Internet.
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However, left unchecked, fear has the power to trap us in jobs, careers, relationships and lives of quiet desperation that leave us thirsty for purpose, hungry for depth and disconnected from the unique potential that lies within us.
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If left unchecked, the problem could lead to failure of the bearing assembly, although related noise and vibration would make this easily detectable by the driver, the company said.
"Companies are wising up to the fact that, left unchecked, social media's inherently decentralized nature poses a threat to everything from leaking announcements and trade secrets to brand and regulatory violations, " she says.
If the population of mites in a hive is left unchecked they can sap the strength of workers, making them much more susceptible to viruses, disease and other debilitating conditions.
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