margin of safety

That left a margin of safety, but a small one.

"We want a big margin of safety, because if something goes wrong, the business will have staying power."

Margin of Safety is also sometimes used to as design criteria.

Try to assure a margin of safety for your students.

The answer is to develop a large margin of safety, engineers say.

Or try to trace Mark's call and find out just how much margin of safety was still left to them.

Using margin of safety, one should buy a stock when it is worth more than its price on the market.

Traveling with a friend can provide an extra margin of safety.

You may call that shaving too close the margin of safety.

They want to see just how much margin of safety there is."

The extra strength used in the design is called the margin of safety.

A Stage 2 alert means that the system has only 5 percent more power than is being used, a low margin of safety.

That would give her some margin of safety to go check the site out a little more closely.

One question is how to help tourists identify when they are on the margins of safety.

He was one to want the margin of safety always on his side, to take every precaution, then go ahead.

Nevertheless, he said, the margin of safety was still ample.

Seconds continued to tick off from their margin of safety.

"Then they pass the margin of safety and need to quit," he said.

The Shadow had a narrow margin of safety before he could get close enough to spring.

I think his extreme care gave us a margin of safety."

The failure to scale the fence had cost him his only margin of safety.

But one senses that the margin of safety is diminishing.

Reliable on-site power could have provided a margin of safety.

An adequate margin of safety if we come up fast."

Still, there's no harm in your having a margin of safety, so we'll just get it exact.