How To Use Imperil In A Sentence

  • Biden and Mullen do not seem to understand also, that the United States, its Arab allies and all its interests in the Middle East (meaning oil supply) would be "imperiled" when Iran has nuclear weapons. Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout.
  • Can they not see that they are imperilling us all with their show boat self indulgence? Archive 2007-04-15
  • Those who supported the Bush invasion and military occupation of Iraq are back at it, warning that President Obama could "imperil" Iraq if he keeps his campaign promise to remove US combat forces with ... Tom Andrews: Out of Iraq in 16 Months: Yes We Can -- Yes We Must
  • It is because it is so hard to find a way of cutting spending without imperilling access to justice that his predecessors – Labour as well as Conservative – have failed to do more than slow its growth, despite 30 consultation exercises in the past four years. Legal aid cuts: Scales of justice | Editorial
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  • The reunion is imperilled by the physical arduousness of the journey, the boys' suspicions about the father's true motives and the volatile dynamics among the three.
  • While the species has made a modest recovery in the past 50 years, we still do not fully understand its needs, and the changing character of the West itself now further imperils these charismatic animals.
  • As if one were a balloonist high in the air, imperilled by the wind currents, at times becalmed, perplexed. The Times Literary Supplement
  • To distract American taxpayers from the suspicion that the stimulus is largely bogus, Obama encourages green space exploration, presumably with the intention of assisting the Venusians currently imperilling their planet. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible « Anglican Samizdat
  • The literary scholar Elaine Scarry pointed out that in the classical world a glimpse of a beautiful person could imperil an observer.
  • Should anyone require, however, to pass through the district, he must first of all be locked securely in a cowshed beyond the limits of the village, and there his clothes must be well smoked ( 'fumigated' they call it), and he himself well doused in a ducking-tub, and if he has any coin about him it must be rubbed with ashes, which life-imperilling occupation will be duly attended to by the local gipsies. The Day of Wrath
  • Many tournament organisers miscalculate entry levels with the result that adjacent areas are crowded together and the competitors' safety is imperilled.
  • Allowing workers to divert some of this money into the stock market will not only put their retirement future at risk, it will imperil the federal government's ability to keep its commitment to current retirees.
  • Artists and instrument makers have banded together to rescue Brazil's imperiled pernambuco, the source of bows for violins, violas and cellos. 04.04
  • The decision has been opposed by the Colorado Association of Anesthesiologists, who claim it will imperil patient safety. Colorado Becomes 15th State To Allow Nurses To Administer Anesthesia
  • Another exotic disease strikes our country, this time imperilling not our health but our economy. Globe and Mail
  • If some moron shows up and provokes police and is imperilling our plan and the safety of our supporters, we're definitely going to ensure that person's booted out. French-Canadian separatists to protest during Prince William's visit to Quebec
  • And once he put his ecclesiastical heel in a pail of varnish, and slid down an entire staircase, to the great imperilment of his kindly old soul. Dangerous Days
  • Although the loftiest, sweetest music of the soul is yet unwritten, its faint articulations interblend with the jangling discords of life, as the chimes of distant bells float through the roar of winds and waves, and chant to imperilled hearts the songs of hope and gladness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
  • But women's groups and many public officials responsible for enforcing child support are battling the movement, which they say imperils children.
  • But he does not accept that his decision will imperil the organisation's survival.
  • What I could not grant away in imperilment of charter, "said Radulfus with deliberation," I can give freely as a gift from this house. St. Peter's Fair
  • I was clearly imperilling their health. Times, Sunday Times
  • Utah, and other western states is "imperiled" by energy WN.com - Articles related to Britain's Brown pledges more Afghanistan troops
  • Nearly 25 species of apes, monkeys, lemurs, and other primates are imperilled and may soon disappear.
  • Instead, speeding to the aid of boat manufacturers, marinas and pleasure boaters, she's trying to weaken protections for the imperiled sea cows.
  • Meanwhile it is referred to only because its consideration shows us some sort of excuse, if not warrant, for the higher education of woman, even though in the process of thus endowing her with economic independence, we disendow her of her distinctive womanhood, or at the very least imperil it; even though, more serious still, we deprive the race of her services as physical and psychical mother. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
  • There is an aesthetic of beauty and balance here that is not subject to the fluctuations around us, said owner Roberto Wirth, referring to the financial crisis now imperilling economies around the world. Austerity drive spells end for the dolce vita as Italians fear for their lifestyles
  • Whiskers the manatee is an ambassador for his imperiled species. Sharing in the USA
  • Our favourite is sheeple, a handy if rather dismissive term for docile citizens in an age of imperilled democracy. Times, Sunday Times
  • War imperils independent thought and speech; governments often invoke patriotism to enforce conformity.
  • The dangers posed to them by superstores and online sellers don't just threaten some quaint form of distributing goods, they imperil the fabric of neighborhoods and towns.
  • Research indicated the owl is an indicator species whose decline indicates the imperilment of the old-growth forest ecosystem.
  • Restoring the banking sector will necessarily mean that their living standards fall further, thereby constraining demand and imperilling recovery. Times, Sunday Times
  • As heir to the throne, he's imperilling the future of the institution. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a presidency that has been wholly unwilling to restrain the drive toward short-term enrichment for themselves and their cronies in behalf of earth's stressed and imperiled biosphere. Bush's Surge: An Interpretation that Connects it with the Regime's Deep Darkness
  • The whole project is imperilled by lack of funds.
  • Having your own navigator installed in the dash could also be the saviour of relationships, which in the past have been imperilled by one partner's inability to read a map to the satisfaction of the other.
  • Once again, we were reminded that one man has the potential to imperil many lives. Jorge A. Rey: Lessons From the Barbecue that Wasn't
  • If an association with Viemeister would imperil that, then she would just have to sacrifice her developing friendship with the human. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • Israel's attempt to "globalize" Gaza imperils us all. Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • The literary scholar Elaine Scarry pointed out that in the classical world a glimpse of a beautiful person could imperil an observer.
  • Recently the Obama campaign put out an push trying to inform voters that if McCain wins the Presidency that will "imperil" abortion (an example in the echo chamber). Pseudo-Polymath
  • A soldier by choice, not accident, he saw his soldiering imperilled, his name as an officer, and even as a gentleman, aspersed, and no way of hitting back at those who had aspersed it. Maid in Waiting
  • But the greatest threat to our national security - and that of the next generation - is the insecurity that imperils the lives and well-being of millions of our children.
  • Here's another comedy in which a neurotic schmuck is imperilled and injured in a series of encounters with his new in-laws.
  • I know personally, I would march day and night, risking imperilment to demand that the offending soldiers were held accountability to the fullest extent. Reactions: Defusing a Koran Shooting in Iraq - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Both work at University College Hospital where Udwin campaigns vigorously against the privatisation plans that imperil 122 beds and hundreds of jobs and offer a beanfeast for private-sector parasites.
  • Those who supported the Bush invasion and military occupation of Iraq are back at it, warning that President Obama could "imperil" Iraq if he keeps his campaign promise to remove US combat forces with ... digg Tom Andrews: Out of Iraq in 16 Months: Yes We Can -- Yes We Must
  • Unfortunately, predatory adults are already using the recent disaster to exploit these imperiled children.
  • In traditional agrarian life, land was almost never divided, because to do so might imperil the next generation's ability to survive.
  • It also plunders natural resources, imperils posterity, and jeopardizes self determination.
  • This dissertation argues that Friedan's feminist thought is still instructive and applicable for contemporary American women, because the feminine mystique is still imperiling them to some extent.
  • For it is the right and noble alone that will have victory in this struggle; the rest is wholly an obstruction, a postponement and fearful imperilment of the victory. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
  • It imperils my university's international programs, which are something I like very much in this nearly 9,000 student regional institution.
  • The recovery of critically imperiled plants and animals is one our nation's most difficult natural resource challenges.
  • Even a couple more minutes could further imperil the master plan which already lacks suficcient support. Franken takes on Lieberman as tensions builds in Senate
  • Virginia's refusal to provide the match will have a number of negative impacts, the most troubling of which is the imperilment of the impending purchase of new 1000 series railcars. Transportation group backs McDonnell's proposal to add statewide appointees to Metro board
  • NEW YORK—Moody's Investors Service placed Italy—the euro zone's third-largest economy—on notice Friday, warning that its sovereign rating may be imperiled by a weak economy and rising interest rates, just as Europe struggles to contend with a raging debt crisis that threatens to engulf Greece. Moody's Puts Italy's Rating on Watch
  • After their exploits of the morning, and the consequent imperilment of Penrod, they decided that nothing more was to be done in apples, vegetables or bread; it was evident that Whitey must be fed from the bosom of nature. Penrod and Sam
  • He warned a return to large and extended deficit spending by the Government could risk driving interest rates higher and imperil economic fundamentals.
  • Today as prime minister, Mr. Singh is presiding over a government that is growing the state sector and imperilling future growth. India's Lingering Leviathan
  • Any pro-gay action, he said, would "imperil" the future of the Anglican Communion. The Christian Post RSS Feed
  • I let go, and they looked reproachfully at me, as though I had imperilled their chance for a bed and three parts of skilly. THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER
  • Tax increases now might imperil economic recovery.
  • Democracy was imperiled when those instrumentalities failed.
  • The Mediterranean monk-seal, the Barbary macaque and the Iberian lynx, which is Critically Endangered, are among the region's imperiled species. Allen Hershkowitz: Cork: A Model of Sustainable Business
  • Those who supported the Bush invasion and military occupation of Iraq are back at it, warning that President Obama could "imperil" Iraq if he keeps his campaign promise to remove US combat forces within 16 months. Tom Andrews: Out of Iraq in 16 Months: Yes We Can -- Yes We Must
  • To expose to danger or the chance of injury; imperil.
  • Nevertheless he was not averse to the Factor's imperilling his own immortal soul, and, especially, feeling an ominous attraction himself for Lit-lit, he was sombrely content to clinch his own soul's safety by seeing her married to the Factor. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
  • He was said to be the source of the description of the chancellor as ‘psychologically flawed’ and that would have fitted: he always seemed ready to do anything and destroy anyone who imperilled his man.
  • U.S. 'imperiled' if war not won, Joint Chiefs chairman warns Mudville Gazette
  • It loses votes, chews up a tonne of money, confers no apparent economic benefits and imperils the ‘clean green’ image upon which our exporters rely and our citizenry prides itself.
  • At her best, playing warmhearted floozies in Some Like It Hot and Bus Stop, she's like a slightly bruised moonbeam, something fragile and funny and imperiled.
  • The security of the country had been imperilled.
  • The lecturer was here threatened by a dry, pippy, cough and the whole course was imperilled. Tutors' Lane
  • Another important flagship species is the Djibouti francolin (Francolinus ochropectus, CR), which is found only in two sites in Djibouti, Forêt de Day, which is thought to be the only viable site for this imperiled species, and the nearby Mabla Mountains. Biological diversity in the Horn of Africa
  • We're not going to jeopardise our own ability to continue to operate by imperilling biodiversity. Times, Sunday Times
  • When landscape is destroyed, culture is imperiled.
  • Lifetime has shifted gears, empowering rather than imperiling women in the drama Army Wives and adding laughs via syndicated comedies such as Reba, Will & Grace and the upcoming How I Met Your Mother, entertainment chief JoAnn Alfano says. Lifetime shops for laughs with original 'Rita Rocks'
  • And all these three you have abandoned to whatever fate your Otir may determine for his hostages, now that you have spited, cheated and imperilled him at the cost of your own honour. His Disposition
  • They then drain the money as quickly as possible, leaving the individuals without cash and imperilling the property transaction. Times, Sunday Times
  • There appeared an uncandour in this which Annie could not let pass even if it imperilled her present object to bring up the matter of past contention. Annie Kilburn : a Novel
  • Many tournament organisers miscalculate entry levels with the result that adjacent areas are crowded together and the competitors' safety is imperilled.
  • With their support, we can improve and protect the stream and riparian habitats upon which the imperiled wildlife of the Green River fauna depends.
  • And the cancer risk does not just affect consumers; it also imperils tens of thousands of farmers, field hands, and migrant laborers.
  • If an association with Viemeister would imperil that, then she would just have to sacrifice her developing friendship with the human. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • Justice Anthony Kennedy warned in August that the rule of law itself is "imperiled" if we are willing to sacrifice judicial excellence to partisan politics. What Crisis?
  • But he accused banks of 'imperilling' the recovery by failing to give credit to firms. The Sun
  • He'll test them on Nile crocodiles in South Africa, which are imperiled because changes to a local dam will raise water levels and swamp nesting beaches.
  • Reservoirs, rivers and snowpack are too low to power hydroelectric dams without further imperiling endangered salmon runs.
  • But dogsledder Lance Mackey is basking in the brighter-than-usual midnight sun that's been shining on the stack-haired veep candidate, the corrupt old senator, some imperiled caribou, and a fistful of blue-collar reality shows. Outside Magazine Gear Reviews
  • Either one of these outcomes would imperil democracy; together they not only injure the country but also cut off the avenues of repair.
  • Moreover, by destroying her immune system, ‘my treatment imperils my health.’
  • Of course, these predicates unleash a horde of problems concerning vagueness, subjectivity, and intentionality, but difficulties along these lines do not imperil the basic approach.
  • Mia and the Migoo" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A tunnel collapse imperiling a parent, flame-thrower violence and apocalyptic devastation.
  • It is, as Martin Wolf of the Financial Times says, a doomsday machine that transfers wealth from outsiders to insiders while imperilling the wider economy. Debate this: how do we fix a broken economy?
  • Each time such a duty was dishonoured, justice suffered and therefore freedom was imperilled... But could Elham be right? A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
  • If you think about it not that you will while you're watching this show, "Matilda" addresses many of the national worries that dominate the daily news here: an enfeebled and ineffective education system, corrupt business practices, abuses of power, organized crime, the mind-rotting effects of bad television, the imperilment of public libraries and the popularity of those tacky dance competitions. NYT > Global Home
  • SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Chronicle joined the lengthening list of imperiled newspapers as its owner set out to purge the payroll and slash other expenses in a last-ditch effort to rever ... San Francisco Chronicle In Danger Of Closing
  • One reason has been reluctance among uniformed officers to criticize policies related to race or gender for fear of imperiling their careers by appearing politically incorrect.
  • Eight companies have demonstrated their commitment to improving their seafood sustainability by removing from sale some imperiled species such as orange roughy and sharks. How Sustainable is the Fish at Your Market?
  • Even better, not one of those "imperiled" congressional incumbents even bothered to show up for the president, either at the airport, the fundraiser (despite the half million in prize money), or even at Havana Harry's in suburban Coral Gables, Bush's last stop in the hour-long drive-by, each citing "prior commitments. John Hood: New Jersey Senator Menendez Rallies Miami Republicans for Obama; Florida Pols Avoid Bush
  • The facts as we know them supply an adequate basis for the concepts and practices which the pessimist feels to be imperilled by the possibility of determinism's truth.
  • How did such an imperiled reptile thrive on a parcel long managed as commercial timberland?
  • Senior caja executives complain that the September deadline may imperil listings, and could increase the number of partial nationalizations, because it would leave just a small window to sell shares before the summer holidays. Spain Unbowed on Cajas
  • Sure, it imperils our GPAs, and we will have to spend a lot of time pestering professors to ensure that our grades do not take a downward turn from such an annoying and useless course.
  • After their exploits of the morning, and the consequent imperilment of Penrod, they decided that nothing more was to be done in apples, vegetables, or bread; it was evident that Whitey must be fed from the bosom of nature. Short Stories of Various Types
  • America's inflation is stoked as the falling dollar drives up its import bills, further imperilling fragile confidence in the currency. Times, Sunday Times
  • Activities included field excursions to some of the island's imperiled ecosystems, lectures in tropical specialties such as breadfruit biodiversity and medical ethnobotany, and demonstrations of Pacific cultural uses of plants.
  • In 2005 the Bush administration played an essential role in securing the now imperiled CPA and a fragile peace between the North and the embattle Southern Sudan. Mia Farrow: All Three U.S. Presidential Candidates Step Up for Darfur
  • So the Hamas truce violations never "imperil" the truce. Yourish.com
  • Twenty percent of the world's freshwater fish species are now imperiled because of damage to waters and watersheds on which they depend.
  • Done right, affairs are neither sordid nor matrimony imperilling. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, he joined his ideas about a permanent and unalterable difference between sectional races with a denunciation of fire-eating extremism that might imperil the Union.
  • Unless all of this is brought into the open, it is going to imperil the future.
  • If an association with Viemeister would imperil that, then she would just have to sacrifice her developing friendship with the human. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • Amid fears of the crisis worsening and the political situation in debt-laden Italy further imperilling the single currency, party heads in near-bankrupt Greece said while agreement had been reached on an interim coalition government, further talks were required on the new administration's life span and who would lead it. Greek leaders agree to unity government as future hangs in balance
  • Team McCain dismisses Norquist as being obsessed with the senator and worried that McCain's probe of the lobbying business could imperil Nor-quist's influence network, the so-called K Street Project, which he built with the likes of former House majority leader Tom DeLay and indicted superlobbyist Jack Abramoff. McCain's Right Flank
  • It also plunders natural resources, imperils posterity, and jeopardizes self determination.
  • Fortunately, as I have said, the main-mast and the mizen are of iron; otherwise the heat at their base would long ago have brought them down and our chances of safety would have been much imperilled; but by crowding on sail the The Survivors of the Chancellor
  • It would also cut through the heart of prime wildlife habitat, including homes for at least 20 imperiled species, including the whooping crane, pallid sturgeon, woodland caribou, American burying beetle, interior least tern and western prairie fringed orchid. Noah Greenwald: Keystone XL in the 'National Interest'? No Way.
  • As if one were a balloonist high in the air, imperilled by the wind currents, at times becalmed, perplexed. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It's not surprising then that associates anguish about blotting their copybook and imperilling their partnership prospects. Times, Sunday Times
  • Consequently, the development of a fully operational quantum computer would imperil our personal privacy, destroy electronic commerce and demolish the concept of national security.

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