While those episodes were not connected, Chinese authorities are terrified at the prospect that future incidents might be.
Then again, it could be a stock with little prospect for future growth.
As one company after another turned in weak revenue results last week, analysts, investors and economists started raising concerns about the prospect for future profits.
Hence, the prospect of future compensation from retaining their positions is likely to be a significant influence on a majority of the board, quite possibly more significant than the lure of raising the value of their current holdings.
However, with the strong gains already clocked by investors this year, some stock strategists were moving in the opposite direction, raising warning flags about the prospect for future gains on a day when demand for Treasurys rose, nudging the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to 1.95%.
For indigenous communities around the world, climate change impacts are not a future prospect.
The prospect of a future, real reduction in the conventional military threat facing Western Europe.
And Korean opposition party is requesting renegotiation on the FTA. What is your opinion and prospect on the future of the Korea-U.S. FTA?
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He thinks that the realistic prospect for the future is a combination of nuclear and renewable energy as the best way to reduce carbon emissions quickly.
The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.
This raises the worrying prospect of a future Indonesia that may remain largely intact politically, but is racked by unmanageable social unrest and shunned by foreign investors.
The future prospect for genuine and pro-Western democracies in this hemisphere are being further clouded by Chinese political, economic and strategic inroads being made from the Panama Canal to Brazil.
For the rest of us who worry about the wisdom of America being the only nuclear power (actual or wannabe) that is systematically engaged in denuclearization, however, the prospect of a future strategic "Monad" is alarming.
"What we don't want is to create some vague prospect in the future that somehow comprehensive immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship will happen, you know, manana, " Mr Obama said, using the Spanish word for "tomorrow".
In the case of CalPERS, at least, such present problems -- and perhaps the future prospect of security-related sanctions being taken against select foreign firms -- is evidently beginning to translate into investors declining to subscribe to such offerings.
"As we look towards the prospect of an independent future, we need to take action now to improve our profitability and cash generation, " said Suri.
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There has to be at least the prospect in the near future of a programme of recapitalisation, of bringing these banks within a safe haven again.
"As we look towards the prospect of an independent future, we need to take action now to improve our profitability and cash generation, " Mr Suri said.
But the prospect of a near future in which scaffold-riding professionals are replaced by automatons doesn't appeal to everyone particularly window washers and the New Yorkers who romanticize them.
People I know are shell-shocked at the prospect of an unknown future in foriegn shores and with pain to endure for at least a decade, many envision never returning.
We offered Iran the prospect of a better future, and when they refused, we joined with Russia and our partners on the Security Council to impose the toughest sanctions ever faced by the government of Iran.
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In Virginia, his favorable rating is twenty-seven per cent, a fact that makes a statewide run for office in the near future a dim prospect.
The former Bury manager admits that he is balancing results against planning for the future with the prospect of taking on the job full-time in the summer.
Significantly, strong reciprocators will behave this way even if doing so provides no prospect of material rewards in the future.
She says there is every prospect that the workforce of the future will be dominated by low pay and insecurity.
For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain that had to be covered, with the future as a distant prospect, hopefully a bright one, and never boring at any rate, now it is interwoven with our life here and in a totally different way.
First, privatisation in any form feels a fairly remote prospect at the moment, with the future structure of British banking yet to be decided by the Treasury, subject to final recommendations from the Independent Commission on Banking in September.
Labour have also raised the prospect of some form of referendum in the future but, like Mr Cameron, the party's leadership oppose a direct vote on whether to stay or exit.
It has no prospect of attracting private foreign capital in the near future.
But he said committing now to the prospect of an in-out referendum in the future would have "big costs" for the country.
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