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291 examples of Peril in a sentence

But seven decades later, the world’s democracies are in peril.
Affordable Green EnergyCOPENHAGEN – Public skepticism about global warming may be growing, but the scientific consensus is as solid as ever: man-made climate change is real, and we ignore it at our peril.
All these states are in peril of sliding into violent conflict.
The paper’s seemingly innocuous title, “Preventing Deflation: Lessons from Japan’s Experience in the 1990s,” makes the fundamental assertion that Japan’s struggles were rooted in a serious policy blunder: the Bank of Japan’s failure to recognize soon enough and act strongly enough on the peril of incipient deflation.
The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril.
In the 60 years since World War II came to an end, we have counted on each other in times of peril and challenge.
At a time of peril, people rally around the flag, and Bush exploited this by fostering a sense of danger.
Her qualities of courage and persistence – of being “not for turning” – provided a living example for us of a type of leadership that does not buckle at moments of political peril.
But the US ignores the third question at its peril.
It would be unfair, of course, to deny the existence of numerous projects for averting this or that peril.
But countries ignore the health of their manufacturing industries at their peril.
Of the 70 million children in peril, two in five have personally experienced violence or abuse.
That lesson has had to be relearned throughout the ages: the lesson that weakness is provocative, that a refusal to confront gathering dangers can increase, not reduce, future peril, and that victory ultimately comes only to those who are purposeful and steadfast.
This increased transparency carries both promise and peril for the companies involved.
The other P5 members will ignore it at their peril.
The result is great peril for the rest of us.
After the popular upheaval that ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali from power, the peril of supporting Arab autocrats in exchange for flimsy stability should have once again become apparent to Western powers.
In other words, Japan and the rest of the world ignore Trump at their own peril.
The American fantasy of a final battle, in Falluja or elsewhere, or the capture of some terrorist mastermind, perpetuates a cycle of bloodletting that puts the world in peril.
Meanwhile, we drift downstream seemingly oblivious to the looming peril of the rapids ahead.
Ironically, the war with Japan – China’s moment of greatest peril from a foreign threat – was also one of the country’s liveliest periods of democratic political participation.
Annan cannot plead that he faced any risk to his personal safety, whereas Wallenberg in 1944 and 1945 was in constant peril.
The debacle of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 should have taught us once and for all the peril of talking only through the barrel of a gun to those whose behavior disgusts us.
But the vast majority of federal spending is on entitlements, the military, and other proverbial “third rail” items that elected officials touch at their peril.
We may not agree with the remedies that they seek, but we ignore their real grievances at their peril and ours.
Thus, a small yet very powerful group maintains the fossil-fuel-based energy system at growing peril to the rest of humanity today and in the future.
Here’s more simple truth: With its large, rich, fossil-fuel-intensive economy, the US has done more than any other country to bring about the global peril of climate change, so it should accept its responsibility in helping to get us all out of danger.
That, unfortunately, is a lesson of Japan’s disaster that we continue to ignore at our peril.
Should Hillary Clinton beat him for the Democratic nomination, as seems likely, she will ignore it at her peril.
So Putin’s talk about reaching an agreement with Japan on the Northern Territories was likely as mendacious as his claims that Russians in Crimea were in peril, and thus in need of protection by Russian troops.
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