imperil

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• The prospect of such a fall-out—which had been a looming prospect for years—raised the possibility of a sudden stop or delays to daily trading across the border into France, that could even imperil supplies of fresh food and medicines.

• All along the migration routes, people are changing the landscape in ways that imperil birds.

• They generate less anxiety in students, for example — an important factor to consider at a time when the pandemic is already imperiling young people’s mental health.

• In the Caribbean, ocean acidification and swelling seas are driving coral reefs toward extinction and imperiling fishing and tourism.

• They also fear that the plan could imperil hopes of reopening middle and high schools by next semester, since many staff members being reassigned are critical to crafting reopening plans.

• You want less concentration in banking—at least the type that will screw the little guy and imperil the economy?

• But the Israelis all but explicitly spurning peace will grievously imperil their own country.

• The goal should be to enable that flow without allowing undue systemic risk and greed to imperil it.

• Romney warned that a second Obama term would “remake” the Supreme Court and imperil the future of gun rights.

• A meltdown at the plant could imperil tens of thousands of citizens, especially children and pregnant women.

• He did not wish to imperil Alan's superb aloofness by involving him in the acrimonious and undignified defence of a friend.