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162 examples of Perilous in a sentence

Despite all that they had endured, one of them told me, upon landing on the Greek island of Lesbos, that they had panicked only once during that perilous voyage: when their mobile phone signal disappeared.
The reason is simple: front-loaded costs and back-loaded benefits make structural reforms politically perilous.
But he is not a good model for politicians in less perilous times.
But, just like perilous financial products, the only way to mitigate the risks of new technologies is to be fully educated about what could go wrong.
Of prime concern is the fact that sea travel has been and will always be perilous.
After four years of President Donald Trump’s bald-faced lies, juvenile bullying, gratuitous cruelty, and perilous volatility, it was certainly an appealing promise.
A Practical Approach to North Korean DenuclearizationSEOUL – The path to peace on the Korean Peninsula remains as perilous as ever.
As a result, some – though, relatively speaking, not many – undertake long and often perilous journeys to developed countries.
Today, it must again pursue its founding mission and help prevent a new and different, but equally perilous, cold war.
Although markets now appear to be recovering somewhat, America and China remain locked in a perilous trade war with no end in sight.
If they fail, the road ahead will only become more perilous.
But policymakers must understand that the demands of voters across the continent for greater cooperation do not reflect an appetite for institution-building, but rather a deeper anxiety about losing control in a perilous world.
Debt service will account for a rising share of spending, and the high debt will likely increase interest rates by more than the CBO assumes, leading to an economically perilous debt spiral.
With the intelligence community in an increasingly perilous state, Biden should choose a top spymaster before making any other personnel decisions.
If so, an already dangerous struggle for global technological preeminence would become a broader and more immediately perilous conflict.
The same is true of the perilous plight of emerging markets today: the international community could prevent imminent macroeconomic disaster, but seemingly lacks the will to do so.
A less perilous version of chicken is being played by Theresa May, the obstinate vicar’s daughter who is the United Kingdom’s prime minister.
The powers of old must now build new avenues of trust and cooperation with developing countries, not only to secure the critical minerals vital to powering the world in the Anthropocene era, but also because a perilous planet is a threat to everyone.
But the transition now facing the DRC is certain to be long, perilous, and frustrating.
The measure may also invite countries like the United States to retaliate with distortive measures, making it somewhat perilous.
After Brexit, we may find ourselves in a more perilous state, because the world will look at Europeans as even greater weaklings.
Playing with matches can be perilous.
That is a perilous assumption, given that media pluralism has been radically reduced in many countries.
The Trade Cure for the Global EconomyHONG KONG – The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the world into perilous, uncharted territory from which no country will emerge unscathed.
The sight of this perilous ascent had extinguished the gaiety, so brilliant until then, of the Parisian decorators; they looked at it from beneath, discussed it volubly, and did not go up.
The strangest plans, the most perilous to herself, formed the theme of her long conversations with Julien.
The bats chased the children a good distance; but the fugitives plunged into every new passage that offered, and at last got rid of the perilous things.
This, then, sirs, is to be a knight-errant, and what I have spoken of is the order of his chivalry, of which, as I have already said, I, though a sinner, have made profession, and what the aforesaid knights professed that same do I profess, and so I go through these solitudes and wilds seeking adventures, resolved in soul to oppose my arm and person to the most perilous that fortune may offer me in aid of the weak and needy."
"That is my own opinion," replied the traveller; "but one thing among many others seems to me very wrong in knights-errant, and that is that when they find themselves about to engage in some mighty and perilous adventure in which there is manifest danger of losing their lives, they never at the moment of engaging in it think of commending themselves to God, as is the duty of every good Christian in like peril; instead of which they commend themselves to their ladies with as much devotion as if these were their gods, a thing which seems to me to savour somewhat of heathenism."
This strange stillness, and the thoughts, always present to our knight's mind, of the incidents described at every turn in the books that were the cause of his misfortune, conjured up to his imagination as extraordinary a delusion as can well be conceived, which was that he fancied himself to have reached a famous castle (for, as has been said, all the inns he lodged in were castles to his eyes), and that the daughter of the innkeeper was daughter of the lord of the castle, and that she, won by his high-bred bearing, had fallen in love with him, and had promised to come to his bed for a while that night without the knowledge of her parents; and holding all this fantasy that he had constructed as solid fact, he began to feel uneasy and to consider the perilous risk which his virtue was about to encounter, and he resolved in his heart to commit no treason to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, even though the queen Guinevere herself and the dame Quintanona should present themselves before him.
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