How To Use Peril In A Sentence

The looming discal peril demands tough action by Robert Chapman on Sunday, Jul 2, 2006 at 12: 03: 29 PM Is NJ Gov. Jon Corzine Running for President?
We are in the second decade of a century of great promise and great peril. Times, Sunday Times
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
The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
We are in mortal peril of ending up discussing the price of fabric conditioner. Times, Sunday Times

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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.
It was a perilous situation. THE GUARDSMEN
We came perilously close to a situation in which newspapers would have stopped carrying racecards.
Honest serials play fair with these cliffhangers, putting the hero into danger and giving the audience a week to sweat over how he will escape the peril.
Other races were infantilised or barbarised, or held up as object lessons in the perils of racial degeneration.
We are appalled at the perilous state of the farming and fishing industries.
But other perils may have awaited his tadpoles: researchers have found that despite their paternal inclinations, male African bullfrogs sometimes cannibalize their young.
The aesthetic revolutions of the 20th century, in painting, music and literature, reflected the galvanizing cataclysms of the times - the world wars, the Holocaust, the nuclear peril.
If you do, and you are perhaps more familiar with The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (also featuring Lovecraft), then the aforementioned is very much in the tradition of this book, except Shadows Bend does not suffer from the sometimes tedious diversions in the other book. Superhero Prose Fiction: Related - Shadows Bend
Hello and welcome to the anatomy of democracy, the perils of democracy and the truth about democracy.
Can they not see that they are imperilling us all with their show boat self indulgence? Archive 2007-04-15
The Hague Convention generally protects carriers by sea against the perils of the sea.
The whole idea of "self sufficiency" is fraught with peril. Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola
In such circumstances, it seemed deeply repugnant that a hapless minority of Americans should again be exposed to mortal peril. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
It was a pleasant surprise when they reconvened to record 1997's For Those In Peril From The Sea, a classy collection of upbeat rockers, jangly pop tunes and introspective balladry.
Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
Thus if the second casualty is due to an excepted peril, the rule of merger which applied in the case of an unrepaired partial loss to defeat the claim has no application.
You write off the English at your peril. The Sun
But when the distances are longer and the borders tougher, the journeys become much more perilous.
Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the tinkers and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without.
But failure to create a viable land settlement was politically perilous.
His playoff streak is in peril this season.
Obviously my slapdash cooking methods are fraught with peril. Times, Sunday Times
Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
We soon learnt the perils of having our notebooks in the public domain. Times, Sunday Times
Before his facile perils and ready laugh, life was no longer an affair of serious effort and restraint, but a toy, to be played with and turned topsy-turvy, carelessly to be lived and pleasured in, and carelessly to be flung aside. Chapter 2
Removing from office a volunteer of long standing can be a perilous action. Christianity Today
The core question in that debate is: can a liberal world escape the perils of anarchy?
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
Although fairly common now, the great egret came perilously close to extinction at the hands of the hat trade at the beginning of the twentieth century; egret plumes were deemed a fashion accessory.
As they scuffled, a foot struck the lantern, pushing it perilously close to the edge. End of Time
He had immediately made the perilous journey - just to see to my funeral!
Bohr may be thought to have got perilously close to this when he suggested that complementarity could shed light on the age-old question of determinism and free will in relation to human nature.
My hostess is a spry 81-year-old sporting a perilous arrangement of blue-tinted hair which hints at her past as proprietor of a West End salon called Lilian's.
Their art treads a perilous tightrope and I think they've just fallen off.
A wolf spider treads perilously on the rim of a South American pitcher plant, perhaps looking to prey on insects drawn to the plant's strong nectar scent.
Companies that trampled over shareholders' right of first refusal over new stock would do so at their peril, they muttered darkly. Times, Sunday Times
A puff of smoke from behind a distant rock, the boom of a jezail, and Desmond fell beside the Boy, stunned by a well-aimed shot on the edge of the cheek-bone, the slug glancing off perilously close to the right eye. Captain Desmond, V.C.
He also warned of the perils of disused quarries. The Sun
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
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.
All aboard were in grave peril of drowning.
DL & Co. Lady Rhubarb PerfumeWith red mandarin, sandalwood, grapefruit and perilla (otherwise known as shiso), one of our favorite brands makes a scent that balances freshness, femininity and a little something sultry. Cool Hunting
It was a perilous undertaking to climb a walnut tree, for the limbs began to grow high up and the trunk was covered with a rough bark, hence the name shagbark; to shin up, and still more to descend, was apt to make patches or a new seat to your trousers your mother's evening work after you had gone to bed. Confessions of Boyhood
The sexual revolution has swept up young adults in a perilous tailspin.
Now, though I am never a hoarder of my pay, because it doth ill to bear a charge about one in these perilous times, yet I always have (and I would advise you to follow my example) some odd gold chain, or bracelet, or carcanet, that serves for the ornament of my person, and can at need spare Quentin Durward
The eurozone is in peril and an international banking crisis looms. Times, Sunday Times
This "imbedded" piece, something we haven't seen much of since the original Iraqi invasion - showed some of our most experienced troops at their best, facing serious, daily peril and explaining the exasperating bureaucratic limitations imposed by the Pakistanis. 60 Minutes Goes "Imbedded" in Afghanistan
In between the two though there is a perilous journey, for us as much as for the robin. Times, Sunday Times
Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
Most Pixar films, even the emotionally-devastating Toy Story 3, went out with G ratings, but Bolt went out with a PG for basically having a (fantastic) curtain-raiser opening action sequence that was quickly revealed to be fake and for a climactic moment of fiery peril for the lead characters. Scott Mendelson: What Does a Cartoon Have to Do to Get a 'G' These Days?
But the obese person in athletic competition is at great peril because the fat around his torso acts as an insulator, refusing to allow the body's heat to escape.
But, of all the alleged verities, putting faith in a trainer's predictions for a chinny fighter whom bookies rate a 9-2 underdog against a 1-8 counter-punching genius is as perilous a challenge to logic and the fates as exists in sport. Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
California, the world's sixth largest economy and home to booming Silicon Valley, had come perilously close to brown-outs on Thursday.
The initial hilarity and horror become a story about Japan old and new, with the added peril of an approaching comet. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone else is in mortal peril, so it's business as usual. Times, Sunday Times
The reality of this peril is apparent in the failure of the United States and Russia, until now, to ratify either the START 2 agreement or the Chemical Pugwash Conferences - Nobel Lecture
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.
In such circumstances, it seemed deeply repugnant that a hapless minority of Americans should again be exposed to mortal peril. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
The travel back wasn't nearly as perilous as the travel into the forest.
During the perilous expedition through jungle and across high altitudes, the group encounters tribes of headhunters and cannibals, observing and filming their rituals and ceremonies.
Mankind's road to Mars is fraught with perils and unanswered questions. Times, Sunday Times
The journey through the jungle was perilous.
The worm illustrates the perils of running computers with open file shares.
As if one were a balloonist high in the air, imperilled by the wind currents, at times becalmed, perplexed. The Times Literary Supplement
The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves."
He believed his immortal soul was in peril.
The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
Such is the methodology of the mind… it thinks not of perils when enticed by joy.
Such is the importance of first qualifying under the new aggregated system that he was forced to keep pushing, but as the track became increasingly perilous during his out-lap, the car aquaplaned and hit the wall at turn eight.
They tell tales ranging from courtly romances full of gallant knights and maidens-in-distress to rude fabliaux telling of the perils of drink, fighting and lust!
[Page 32] grace of architecture; but the taxi-cabs and private motors are almost as abundant as in peace-time, and the peril of pedestrianism is kept at its normal pitch by the incessant dashing to and fro of those unrivalled engines of destruction, the hospital and War Office motors. Fighting France
Behold him next assuming the reins of government at a time when every other mind on earth would have shrunk aghast from the fearful task, or sunk beneath its complicated perils. The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln
She promised to climb up the perilous peak along with us the next day,but she chickened out at the last moment.
It is often served just sliced on a plate with some bowls of chogochujang vinegared hot pepper sauce or, sometimes, soy and wasabi into which the fish is dipped before wrapping it in lettuce or perilla leaves and eating it. Fish
A realistic life-sized mouse may be seen in one place, just as if it had run out to inspect the work; and the numbers of little tipsy "putti" who disport themselves in all attitudes, in perilous positions on narrow ledges, are full of merry humour. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
After a while, the trio finally got underway and started their perilous journey.
Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply.
In the reaction against the monotony of formalism and of that deadly conventionalism which is the peril of every accepted method in religion, art, education, or politics, men are ready to welcome any revolt, however extravagant. Essays on Work and Culture
That power brought settlers on perilous journeys, inspired colonies to rebellion, and set our Nation against the tyrannies of the 20th century.
Not recognising the deeper motives of those commitments, pinning it all on wonder, is dangerous because it disinclines one to recognise those mechanisms at play in secular - isms like totalitarian ideologies or — most perilously of all, to my mind — scientistic rationalism. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Karpov, the champion, came perilously close to losing.
COURAGE, _m. _, fermeté en face du péril; hardiesse; audace; bravoure. French Conversation and Composition
Geez, yoo put ONE family in peril and suddenlee yoo has a bottel pointed at yoo, and everyone is awl CRAZY. WO WO WO - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
These project influencers - both the yeasayers and especially naysayers - are ignored to the peril of the project.
It hovers perilously close to cheesy at times (think animal prints and acres of marble), but it positively reeks of a bygone era.
Indeed, dearest, you shall not have last word as you think, ” all the 'risk' shall not be mine, neither; how can I, in the event, throw ambs-ace (is not that the old word?) and not peril your stakes too, when once we have common stock and are partners? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
He would willingly raid into the Scotch lowlands; but his courage failed him at the border, and he regarded England as a perilous, unhomely land. Memories and Portraits
'risk' shall not be mine, neither; how can I, in the event, throw ambs-ace (is not that the old word?) and not peril _your_ stakes too, when once we have common stock and are partners? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
Seems to me the archetype is that of the perils of pride and not a uniquely science fiction construct. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
Mr Hornby, a bombardier in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, was ordered on a perilous mission while acting as a dispatch rider in Italy.
He saw, as he supposed, "the Okimow in peril of his life," and acted according to the dictates of his accursedly poor discretion. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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
It can avoid the diseases happening in perilous family by the way of genetic counseling, which can distinguish hereditary disease and imhereditary disease.
The literary scholar Elaine Scarry pointed out that in the classical world a glimpse of a beautiful person could imperil an observer.
In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants.
He can not elect before advice is received, of the loss: and if that advice shews the peril to be over, and the thing in safety, he cannot elect at all; because he has no right to abandon, when the thing is safe.
The bogey of community in peril was falsely raised to keep the constituency within the preserve of male candidates.
In narratives by English writers from the time of Margery Kempe, the litany of discomfort, hazard, and mortal peril echoes almost unchangingly down the centuries, muting fainter sounds of pleasure.
It's a mixture of blokeish culture and the perils of overmuch specialisation too young.
Timidity and maladdress do not retard perils by ignoring them. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
The northern half of the island is a mountain range covered with jungle, to which a perilous beach road nervously clings. Times, Sunday Times
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
My progress through the foggy night was perilous in the extreme. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
On the contrary, it is to be considered that, without his consent having ever been asked, a man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. Can anybody ever consent to the State?
They desired me to marvel at everything; but that they themselves after past perils should be here again and ready, for no more than seamen's pay, to run their heads into perils yet unhandselled, was to these honest fellows no matter worth considering. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
And thus they went so long till that they came to the Siege Perilous, where they found letters newly written of gold which said: Four hundred winters and four and fifty accomplished after the passion of our Lord Jesu Christ ought this siege to be fulfilled. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
She caught his eye, and her faculties, sharpened by the imminent peril, read relentment there. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life
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
North Atlantic swordfish faced similar peril in the 1990's, having for decades been severely overfished and mismanaged nearly to the point of commercial extinction.
This meant the three tanks on the right flank were on their own and in great peril. The Sun
Wearing the Cowboys pom-pom hat was done at your own peril, particularly in the halls of the local high schools. Tom Davis: Torn Between Three Teams... No Longer Feeling Like a Fool
But there are areas that you stray into at your peril. Times, Sunday Times
The assumption commonly made is that vibrations in the water or air by direct contact cause the tympanic membrane to vibrate; this in turn causes a movement of the columella, which is transmitted to the perilymphatic fluid of the inner ear. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
The halving of the oil price since the outline deal highlights the perils of forecasting. Times, Sunday Times
Smithsonian entomologist David Roubik points out that the stingless bee, rather than non-native species, has been essential to the pollination of tropical forest plants, and when the bee is in peril, so is the local ecology. Honey: A sweet Maya legacy
It's difficult to advise others about the perils of this kind of lifestyle, especially when one has been sucked into it, albeit on a minor scale compared to some people's levels of borrowing.
Many tournament organisers miscalculate entry levels with the result that adjacent areas are crowded together and the competitors' safety is imperilled.
The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
In a world at peril, socialists need to be intransigent tribunes of the poor - fighting for universal, free access to lifeline vaccines, anti-virals and antibiotics.
A perilous leap to the edge was followed by a difficult scramble over slimy rock faces.
There is perilously little room for manoeuvre in the group but the stage is set.
The war risked setting off a perilous chain reaction that would endanger the whole world.
With Aintree announcing record attendances once again for its Grand National meeting, it seems hard to imagine that the famous steeplechase was perilously close to being axed as recently as the 1970s.
After a perilous homeward journey he reached England in 1774, only to encounter serious doubts about the validity of his discoveries.
The conflicting images of Francoise warred in me: the sweet face which had become, during our perilous ANTI-ICE
On a suburban street where drifts of red and gold leaves line the green lawns, a car is lurching perilously - nearly missing a boy on a bike, sideswiping another car.
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.
He had handled his Indian scouts and dealt with the "bronco" Indians, the renegades from the tribes, in circumstances of extreme peril; for he had seen the sullen, moody Apaches when they suddenly went crazy with wolfish blood-lust, and in their madness wished to kill whomever was nearest. The Rough Riders
Enlightenment values are in peril not because these mad beliefs are really growing but because too many rational people seek to appease and understand unreason.
And now a new vista of peril opened before her. The House of Mirth
Those who write off the oil and gas industry ignore all this at their peril. Times, Sunday Times
Within these limits, however, empty spaces were not terra incognita, which is what some scholars have assumed the blanks on colonial maps represented; they were not perilous "margins and thresholds," "reminders of the failure of knowledge and hence the tenuousness of possession. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Rep. 332. tender the pawnee keeps the goods, and they are ftolen, 0wcn '** • die pawnee muftanfwer; for now his property is deter - mined, and he is a wrongful detainer; and he that keeps goods by wrong mull anfwer for them at peril, in all events; for his detainer is the reafon of the lofs. Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
I was worried that the wind and water would take me in a south-westerly direction and I would therefore have to pass perilously close to 50 miles of coastline.
The perilune slowly decreased to about 300 km and the apolune increased to about 3000 km, while the argument of perilune drifted around the south pole.
The house lager was, again, delicious, just a bit on the malty side, and perilously drinkable.
The great perils in the life of man, which endangered him in this world and the next, were the superficial elation of superbia, when by whatever acci - dent Fortune favored him, and the ruinous desperation of accidia and dolor, when Fortune frowned. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.
The search for this quark-gluon plasma has been long and frought with peril (CERN miraculously announced its discovery just before the turnon of RHIC - an announcement which later proved to be premature and a stretching of the truth). Top Physics Stories
There are some perilously funny exchanges about sleeping with other people. Times, Sunday Times
As the day grew longer and faded into night, the party continued on their perilous journey, marching through the mist filled forests.
District of Columbia -- if Congress has a right to annihilate property in the District when the public safety requires it, it may surely annihilate its existence _as_ property when the public safety requires it, especially if it transform into a _protection_ and _defence_ that which as _property_ perilled the public interests. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The two sopranos, Barbara Perillo especially, are as fresh as a morning in April, and if they are not the most fluid Handel stylists, that's ok.
Another is the Queen of Sheba, who travelled from what is believed to be Yemen at great peril to herself to meet King Solomon in Jerusalem. Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: Just a Century Ago, a Woman Ruled in the Gulf
Via Ron Charles on Twitter, this direct, stat filled condemnation of the ‘publish or peril’ ethic in academe, by Mark Bauerleinin in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a call for emphasis to be placed on one-on-one interaction and conversation: 2009 July 26 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Nonetheless, the Bush administration, in acquiescence to the Lobby, has "bludgeoned" its European partners to go along with its uncompromising support for the Jewish state despite all the obvious perils from it. The Power of Israel in the United States
Aside from any Newtonian peril, walnut trees entertain the natural world with a biochemical process known as allelopathy, a method of Darwinian survival. Eric peters
Some of the younger children learned the benefits of healthy eating and how fatty food affects the body, while older pupils were given the chance to learn about the perils of drink, drugs and cigarettes, and how medicine works.
Then the pope, considering the great perils that might ensue by his departing, dispensed with him, and assoiled him of his avow, of which he sent to him a bull under lead, and enjoined him in penance to give the goods that he should have spent in his pilgrimage, to deeds of charity, and to re-edify some church of S. Peter, and endow it with sufficient livelihood. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
Artists and instrument makers have banded together to rescue Brazil's imperiled pernambuco, the source of bows for violins, violas and cellos. 04.04
These birds are able to survive the perils of the Arctic winter.
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
The important thing to remember, Mr Ridgway said, is that keeping a building protected from the perils of fire is an ongoing process.
Japanese researchers report on the great perils of the retirement cruise. Times, Sunday Times
Also, if you want to try to relive current UO like it kidna was, why not play on Siege Perilous? Ultima Online R.I.P.
Irish revivalism, an example of linguistic nationalism, arrived only when the language was already in grave peril.
Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. The Last Airbender Movie Trailer #3 | /Film
He periled his life to save the drowning boy.
Left to take its chances in the perilous game of Russian roulette. The Sun
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
The best way to safeguard children from the perils of this new technology is by parent control.
They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.
For all of his insights into our geopolitical situation and his monitions about the perilous path we're on, when one reads the two books in tandem, the effect is one of moral numbness.
Mild corneal epithelial erosion, faint anterior stromal haziness, no ischemic necrosis of perilimbal conjunctiva or sclera. DO NO HARM
That oughtest thou to know and no man better, said the good man, for thou knewest the daughter of king Pelles fleshly, and on her thou begattest Galahad, and that was he that at the feast of Pentecost sat in the Siege Perilous; and therefore make thou it known openly that he is one of thy begetting on King Pelles daughter, for that will be your worship and honour, and to all thy kindred. Chapter IV. The Fifteenth Book. How the Hermit Expounded to Sir Launcelot His Vision, and Told Him That Sir Galahad Was His Son
Many species are in peril of extinction because of our destruction of their natural habitat.
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
For mothers and children, the situation is even more perilous.
Whether Christians should welcome it or not remains an open question, but they can ignore it only at their peril.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. Albert Einstein
But the energy of their protest brought its own peril, as they tended to become suspicious of any pronounced sacramental emphasis, even the genuine sacramentalism of the New Testament.
Despite world pube supplies being at a perilous low, one singular offending hair survived current genital fashions for waxed baldness, provoking inter-landlandy armageddon on Three In A Bed Thu, 8pm, Channel 4. Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed
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
The perils of battle apart, both sides suffered from malaria, malnutrition and inadequate supplies.
You can use lemon mint for la tia to, the perilla leaf called shiso in Japan, which is omnipresent in Southeast Asia. One Big Table
The object was to show how a certain sector of the economy fulfilled or overfulfilled its plan, despite wreckers, saboteurs, pessimists, and other perils.
As often happens in such cases, the dangers incurred from the zeal of the local loyalist seem to have been much the most formidable of the perils of the hour. Maria Edgeworth
According to The tenants of Shinto, all White animals are sacred Kami spirits that you mess with at the peril of displeasing the Gods. Would You Keep an Albino Gamefish?
The perils of contracting out essential services were graphically illustrated to us the other week when we noticed that the sewage drain cover just behind our house was rising ominously.
My position was the more perilous because that very admiral happened to be Chosrew pacha. A Start in Life
There are more trusters than doubters, but the gap is perilously close for such a high-risk war plan.
We are in the second decade of a century of great promise and great peril. Times, Sunday Times
Luke Fox, being ice-bound and in peril, writes, “God thinks upon our imprisonment within a supersedeas;” but he was a good and honourable man as wall as euphuist. The North-West Passage
Ignore these warnings at your peril.
Office chairs, armchairs, sofas - your back is in peril from all of them.
But women's groups and many public officials responsible for enforcing child support are battling the movement, which they say imperils children.
When you are weighing up which lender to go to for your loan, you ignore their differences at your peril.
These have led to some perilous moments, especially when the public's unmannerly curiosity about the nitty-gritty collides with radio phone-ins.
Volunteering, visiting schools, traveling to government agencies to help remoralize employees, raising her adorable daughters; she's an incredible asset to Obama at a perilous time. Salon
While they are dealing with the Want Winter and Geth fall into one peril after another, at least until they continue to believe in fate. Archive 2007-10-01
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
The possession of power, even when greatly restrained, is such a fiery stimulant, that its lodgment in human hands is always perilous. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828

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