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Hence the wider crisis for France's political system: it risks becoming irrelevant.
ECONOMIST: The French elections
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Their critics argue that Brazil should seek to integrate South America on the basis of rules, rather than political sympathy, and that by proclaiming regional leadership it risks becoming the target of regional grievance.
ECONOMIST: Brazil's foreign policy: Lula and his squabbling friends | The
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Unless its voters and its new mayor can lift themselves above the fight for individual corner shops, it risks becoming merely a cosy resort where the new economy's manic entrepreneurs go to drink their over-engineered coffee.
ECONOMIST: The San Francisco mayor��s race
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If they do not, the paper warns, it risks becoming a meeting that issues "a traditional statement that will not help put out the big fire, which awaits the region and whose effects no one will escape".
BBC: Words of warning before Turkish talks
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Strength comes from unity without it, accounting risks becoming just another tool for governments to attempt to manage the economic cycle.
ECONOMIST: Accounting rules
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It is a loophole that risks becoming a death-trap.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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Google risks becoming stale as it avoids investing effectively in new technologies or solutions.
FORBES: Where Larry Page must manage risk, and invest time, as Google's new CEO
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The United Nations risks becoming as irrelevant as its predecessor, the League of Nations, unless it does what it resolved to do and enforces a decade of demands it issued to Saddam Hussein.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: UN told to join US or become irrelevant
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The figure is a stab in the dark, but it is clear that the problem is becoming worse and that few of those who become involved understand the risks they are running.
BBC: Students warned not to get involved in money laundering