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Sentence Examples It was easy to spot you around the town on your Suzuki trail bike, the Yellow Peril. The crowd grew quiet as Symphony in Peril ended their set with an instrumental as Jonas lay prostrate on the ground with several of the concert-goers, in reverence to God. I swallowed H.S. Tsien's deportation and Cold War paranoia and Joe McCarthy and the Yellow Peril and the coming war with China. The US and Australian reaction to the war had also been mixed, with fears of a Yellow Peril eventually shifting from China to Japan. His career as editor had been long enough, however, for him to impress upon the minds of the French public the imminency of the Prussian Peril. This is myth, created by Podhoretz and his ilk, an invented threat like Yellow Peril, Panslavism, Communism. To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations. I love their darkness, the transformational aspect of them and the fact that they are always about girls in peril. Whoever wants to mindlessly jettison the structures that have held peace does so at their peril. But many, at their peril, continue beyond that time, unable to accept it's passing. The bogey of community in peril was falsely raised to keep the constituency within the preserve of male candidates. This argument has been surprisingly popular this year, given what seems to be a gross underestimate of the peril that lies ahead. People who worked for Casey soon learned to underestimate him at their own peril. The Spaniards had bearded the lion in his den, and were in a position of extreme peril should the cacique prove hostile. Of course, the best researchers are flagrant scofflaws about disciplinary boundaries, but most of the rest of us scoff them at our peril. Firefighters, police officers and other selfless members of our society rushed to the aid of those in peril. As military families with loved ones serving our nation in a time of war and grave peril, we understand the importance of operation security. For many years this was a dangerous frontier land, where pirates roved and merchantmen ventured at their peril. Further compounding the peril is the fact that this is basically a murder mystery, a whodunit with slasher overtones. We tamper with the independence of the judiciary at the peril of our cherished freedoms. Show More Sentences He is dismayed by the indifference of the public to its own peril, but it is the acquiescent dismay of an older man. The world's biggest seabird, the wandering albatross, is in peril because of long-line fishing. Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril. The United States government and democracy has been in peril many times in its history. But facing yet more budget cutbacks, the journal, which has been in financial peril since 1984, may not survive. Irish revivalism, an example of linguistic nationalism, arrived only when the language was already in grave peril. In a normal environment, disease is a fact of life, but it's one we ignore at our peril. Those who appended their signatures merely to appear to be non-racial or fair in dealing with others, do so to their peril. That is because the essence of unseaworthiness as a cause of loss or damage is that the unseaworthy ship is unfit to meet the peril. While he is far from being a bootboy, party colleagues said he would be crossed at one's peril. I held my nose and I ate Jack London and the yellow peril and the coming war with China. I was lost, fresh back from Vietnam, searching, maybe, for a peril the equivalent of war but aimed in the direction of life. Furthermore, the cannon and armor-piercing bombs of Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft posed a mortal peril for the German tanks. In the cataclysm that followed, the survival of republican government indeed was in peril. The documentary material is neglected at the aesthetician's peril. Secularism is in peril, and those who hold it dear need to work for it. When we decimate the funding for hospital preparedness, we put ourselves in great peril. Time slowed as the ball arced across Alan Main in the Gretna goal but dropped in front of Derek Townsley, the home centre-half, who hoofed it beyond peril. Hordes of relatives and political favor seekers were in mortal peril if they arrived to freeload after dark. Perhaps that is warranted in this case, but there is peril in generalizing. Show More Sentences Rick must shepherd his newborn daughter, Judith, through this world of peril. The resulting convictions should serve as a salutary reminder to those who hold public office that they are bound by a duty of trust which they breach at their peril. This episode illuminates the omnipresent peril the current president faces in having such a high-profile, high-octane frenemy. Not all of the mesmerizers act was without some peril for the subject. Facts have weight and mass, and we ignore them or abuse them at our own peril. 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. We separate the search for justice from the search for truth at our peril. We insulate ourselves from such natural volatility at our own peril. Salvage law rewards salvors for risking life and property to rescue the property of another from peril. The great peril of our existence lies in the fact that our diet consists entirely of souls. Wylie added that without the merger, the industry would be in peril. Now poaching is on the rise and wildlife conservation in peril. Figures such as the founder of the Society of Friends, George Fox, were jailed by the Cromwellian authorities and published at their own peril. Whereof fail you not, as you will answer the contrary at your utmost peril. I'd just love us to really signal to the gloaters that they should write our great club off at their peril. Shifting alliances and treacherous allies bring the boundaries of the three dominions in peril as all seek to find the Shield of Skool. Vineland denied coverage stating that the loss was not caused by a peril specifically covered by the policy. A vessel is considered in peril if it is in danger or could become in danger. Examples of a vessel in peril are when it is aground or in danger of going aground. All mariners have a duty to save the lives of others in peril without expectation of reward. Show More Sentences This gave Europe some degree of protection from the peril of Central Asian invaders. But I will say that if you're an IT professional, youignore big data at your peril. Africans forget their history at their peril, says the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the king of the Asante people of Ghana. What I liked about the script was that everyone gets in to such terrible peril you wounder how on earth they will get out of it. The image of boats in peril contrasts the cold light of the moon with the firelight glow of the fishermen's lantern. Ambulance aircraft which do not comply with the above will do so at their own risk and peril. Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. Paul Greengrass's uncannily similar movie about those in peril on the sea turns the tension up to no more than six and a half. Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy. The court held that the defence was available as long as the crime was a reasonable and proportionate response to an imminent peril of death or serious injury. Most concerningly, local knowledge and expertise has often been overlooked in the discussion around developing northern Australia, at the peril of those leading the charge. If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Let all good citizens whose livelihood and labour have thus been put in peril bear with fortitude and patience the hardships with which they have been so suddenly confronted. The glimpse of bright yellow fusilage and the whump of the rotorblades above the clouds or the waves has signalled life again for many a sailor and climber in peril. Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling. Nevertheless, the art of fighting on foot was an obligatory part of military education which even a charioted knight could ignore at his own peril. Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron. What was a very specific war history, initiated by non-Hmong, gets converted into a permanent cultural trait, masculinizing all Hmong as transhistorical figures of peril. Salvage law has as a basis that a salvor should be rewarded for risking his or her life and property to rescue the property of another from peril. Also in shipbreach men flee to a board, and are oft saved in peril. Show More Sentences Here, the condition of peril is as prominent as that of protection. The amount of the award depends on, in part, the value of the salved vessel, the degree of risk involved and the degree of peril the vessel was in. Examples from Classical Literature The flesh fly's maggots, though incomparable liquefiers, know nothing of this peril, even in a puddle of carrion broth. If peril could bring about unity God could bring it about even more effectively. The men knew their deadly peril, knew that the tip of the wand in the death angel's hand was brushing their cheeks. The Shirt-tail battalion and the bluegrass battalion stood in peril of decimation in their maiden engagement. He must sadden the heart of this creature of joy that he might keep her body safe from peril. If thou wilt not postpone the duma, then the peril will be upon thine own head! In this mortal peril the father determined to offer sedna to the birds and flung her overboard. Not only was such an act sacrilegious in its nature, but it was fraught with peril. On a craft like this every man instinctively knows what should be done in any moment of escapable peril. She fancied every man a seducer, and every hour an hour of accumulating peril! Miss Matilda was aware of a slackening from the keen excitement and zested peril of their escape. We are not neglecting the safeguards provided by peril points, an escape clause, or the National Security Amendment. T' this the lad was listenin' like a caribou o' the barrens scentin' peril. He liked Waverley, yet the thought of the other's peril did not sway him for a moment. The peril of traversing these plains is greatly increased by the movability of the sand and the Medanos. He did not peril his prows beyond the shoals which environed the entrance to his harborage. The teredo or shipworm was a serious peril in the days before the sheathing of ships. Hatteras could think of nothing but the Doctor, and of the serious peril which threatened him. Immediately after escaping from this peril, a still greater one had befallen him. But nevertheless he could not leave it behind since it was for this he had incurred his present peril. Show More Sentences Finally, he strewed leaves, and bent grass, until no least gleam of metal betrayed the masked peril of the trail. Whilst still a mere lad, Dost, by his courage and sagacity, delivered fatah from more than one imminent peril. All three huzzaed loudly, and for a moment forgot the peril of their position. The latter, although fully alive to the imminency of the peril, lost not her composure at this trying moment. Seeing, then, the imminency of the peril in which you stand, you will do well to avoid it while there is yet time. It was an impish trick, and it brought him unwittingly into peril of his soul. The sickening sensation of impending peril held the girl as the emergency brake squealed. An inexplainable instinct sometimes warns a person of the approach of peril. It is the special peril of the young lover of life, that an inflammability to beauty in women is in a breath intense with him. In the first place, the Western world will not permit the rise of the yellow peril. We recognize, however, without difficulty, the peril of insatiableness and immodesty in the pleasures of Art. We were closely pushed and in peril when they ensnared the trireme with their sand. With the sensing came the realization of peril, so great that I did not stop to wonder at the uncanniness of my visitors. To us, alone and in peril, this diary assumed an epochal importance entirely out of kelter with its face value. But, with the good hand of God upon him, he escaped the then unimagined peril. My peril in this palace is as great as in the room of a terrestrial detective. To all appearance he was secure in his inheritance and buttressed against any peril. But the cashless, unsusceptible Mule stands in no peril of such baleful self-deception. The instances of fisher help to merchantmen in peril are uncounted and uncountable. The lees of twenty ducats shabby in his fist told her how near the peril was. Show More Sentences The absence of M. de la Fayette from the line threw the 'parfait' into peril. Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused. An immigrant peril is the sweat-shop labor which this class performs. The clouds that wrapped the summit of Tacoma spelled mystery and peril. It was a moment fraught with peril, and with unnumbered possibilities. The Edina was in the most imminent peril on the edge of the Brake Sand. He had been on crusades, had fought the courteous Saladin, had been in prison, and often in peril. The Finlander recognized our peril as quickly as I did, and halted. Muscari was in towering spirits, seriously believing in the peril, and his talk to Ethel might well have made her think him a maniac. I can conceive nothing more sublimating than the strange peril and novelty of an adventure such as this. The message might have been taped under a threat of some great peril. Before another hour had passed, the disclosure of the husband's sudden death was followed by the suspense of the wife's mortal peril. It was at least a platonic Paradise, where Lothario ventured at his peril. Remarkably, these massive losses came from a peril that was not even barely contemplated and therefore not underwritten or priced. Our national peril is mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold. Happily the townspeople became aware of the peril which threatened them. The white forces in the Transkei were in imminent peril of annihilation. A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. But Moab was shown to be in peril, was warned to be generous. Her mind is set on taking it down, yet she will not peril her husband. Show More Sentences For some time past he had been haunted by the anarchist peril. The peril in which feudalism was placed revived their ancient sentiments. The howlers spread talk of yellow peril and Black Plague to follow. Bosc continues to come and see her at the peril of his life. And off I went among the bracken, thanking God for this peril escaped. But Buckingham's insolent assurance was proof against that peril. Double yellow peril I WOULD like to take your comments on Peter Budd's parking fine to task. The yellow peril struck Moseley on the first of their back-to-back trips deep into the West Country. Only the wit and readiness of the coadjutor saved him from imminent peril. Notwithstanding this, they came on till they were near enough to call to them with a speaking-trumpet, bidding them keep off at their peril. Frey wanted to marry her, and to disoblige him would be at their peril. The ride had been nightmare-like, fraught every second with peril. No word of this peril reached Robin's ears, although his men brought him word of the seizure of the Huntingdon lands. He was conscious also of the shallowness and vanity of his mother's nature, and in that saw infinite peril for Sibyl and Sibyl's happiness. Go, then, and at the peril of your life, bring me back the Golden Fleece. Go, then, and at the peril of your life bring me back the Golden Fleece! You do not yet know what it is to have a sonless son in peril. Triumph of love is greatest, when peril of love has been sorest. Also they realised the peril of the mainland from the Hunnish invasion. The human race is in dire peril, harried by renegade humans called Mollies who are intent on crippling Earth's colonization of other worlds. Show More Sentences Danger from incendiarism was now removed, but a new peril appeared. It made me quite faint to feel that we might escape the Scylla of our present peril and yet split on the Charybdis of circumstantial evidence. Alas for him that under lowering skies, In peril o'er a trackless ocean sails, Where neither friendly port nor pole-star shows. Still, decision support tools can be nebulously defined or even taken for granted, both at a provider's own peril. Flora was beside me, and I felt ready to surmount any peril for her sake. No peril of the deep was unforeseen, no ounce of prevention unprovided. Yet Raffles, with me in his arms, crossed the zone of peril softly as the pard. But that flexibility is not provided to department stores because, as private enterprises, they act at their own peril. That I did not overrate the peril before me, events soon proved. In fact, a program manager needs both, and our point was that heroes and heroines are ignored or disparaged at the PM's peril. A dollar looked bigger to me, just then, than a wheel of the yellow peril. You're discussing my father, whereas I desire to discuss the yellow peril. It was my zeal for the king of Spain that brought me into that peril. And before the wind we were, and leaping, when Johnson, easing his sheet at imminent peril, cut across our wake a hundred feet away. That was an objection to peeping through the venetian blinds, as we nevertheless did, at our peril of observation from the road. The horses, too, were like those he had gone, at the peril of his life, to fetch from the Russian outposts. He will cover his face with an iron vizor, which the prisoner shall never raise except at peril of his life. They had fortitude and self-reliance, and in time of difficulty or peril stood up for the welfare of the state like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide. I were undeserving his grace did I not peril it for his good. In this regard, terrorism is a peril similar to flood, earthquake and windstorms in that we know that certain areas are more susceptible to an attack. Show More Sentences It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. There's slapstick buffoonery, unconvincing peril and mild grumbling as the decrepit duo are tempted by soft beds, pretty ladies and motorised transport. Participate at your peril and experience the dark and mysterious world of the Apothecary, a concocter and seller of drugs in the time of Shakespeare. God grant that we may be guided aright, and that He will deign to watch over my husband and those dear to us both, and who are in such deadly peril. Often, too, they had to grope their way through the yet burning forests, in constant peril from the limbs and trunks of trees, which frequently fell across their path. Find more words! 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