insure against something

Examples of insuring

insuring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In particular, unemployed agents are chosen randomly and do not have the possibility of insuring themselves against unemployment risk.
Insuring that protection of the water supply is its first responsibility.
In particular, young agents get high transfers when the nominal interest rate is high, in effect "insuring" agents against being born in unfortunate seasons.
But, at the same time one may assent to the idea that traffic laws are useful in insuring one's own and everyone else's safety.
Insuring an adequate number of surviving children was of the utmost importance for most families.
In other words, people were insuring actively against the prospect of food scarcity.
Governments and employers are assuming less responsibility for insuring against the risks associated with later life than in the past.
Means of insuring fully informed patient participants is an objective across clinical trials in all diseases.
In equilibrium, they will, however, have the same asset equation via insuring themselves against income risk.
Like his high-income counterpart he faces a trade-off between maximizing versus insuring his retirement income, but he may have greater capacity to self-insure.
Using the language of "insurance" conveys the sense that the government is insuring the public against the risks of a loss of income.
In the latter case, bistratification is clearly a means of insuring contrast invariant responses to both dark and light objects in the visual field.
The effect of fully insuring earnings uncertainty on aggregate capital accumulation is a little weaker than the effect of fully insuring lifetime uncertainty.
If there are no binding incentive compatibility constraints, the principal will make herself better off by fully insuring the agent.
The firm is responsible for insuring that sufficient monies are in the pension account to pay all promised benefits and the plans are regulated as defined benefit plans.
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