(n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
(n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
(n.) Difficulty; sparingness.
(n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(v. t.) To endanger.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(2) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(3) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(4) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(5) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(6) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
(9) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(10) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(11) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(12) When in addition the serum P is low (which was a feature of male patients), the danger exists for osteomalacia to develop.
(13) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(14) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
(15) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(16) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(17) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
(18) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(19) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
(20) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
Hanger
Definition:
(n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
(n.) That by which a thing is suspended.
(n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
(n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.
(n.) A bridle iron.
(n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
(n.) A steep, wooded declivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Before this scheme rolled out I think there were very few accidents in the insulation industry," said the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, adding that problems occurred after an influx of people becoming installers, including a number of "shonks".
(2) When he could finally find a question he was able to understand or willing to answer, his responses were either that he was far too important to have got involved in that level of detail or a microscopic analysis of the price of coat hangers.
(3) My present intention is not to repeat the examination and findings of those inquiries, nor do I intend to endlessly traverse matters which have already been examined,” Hanger told the opening hearing in Brisbane.
(4) The missing detail in every incomplete clarification worked like a cliff-hanger ending in a soap, leaving the audience hungry for the next episode.
(5) Our attitude was like Mr T and Rocky downstairs in the basement listening to a radio with a hanger sticking out of it doing push-ups.
(6) Press TV, which has offices near Hanger Lane in north-west London, employs a number of other UK journalists.
(7) Wings for the A400M – made from lightweight composites rather than aluminium to dramatically reduce weight and improve speed and manoeuvrability – are taking shape inside a nondescript hanger in Filton called 07N.
(8) Almost a full day behind schedule, Rudd appeared in Brisbane magistrate's court but did not speak a word beyond giving his name as the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, and legal representatives held a heated discussion about the huge portions of Rudd's statement which had been redacted on request from the commonwealth due to parliamentary privilege.
(9) Hanger said: "Four young men died while undertaking installations funded by the home insulation program.
(10) Outside parliament on Saturday coat hangers, brandished by protesters as symbols of the crude tools used for backstreet abortions, were interspersed with red-painted placards proclaiming “My womb, not the fatherland’s” but also broader messages, such as “Make love not PiS”.
(11) Demonstrating his drawing power, hundreds of supporters turned out in the unlikely and awkward setting of an aircraft hanger.
(12) For women who lived in the United States before abortion was made legal, there are few images more evocative and distressing than the wire coat hanger.
(13) And so it was that I too succumbed to the vile illness and found myself quite without sight for a month, a cliff-hanger infinitely more effective in a serialisation than when you need only turn the page to find my sight restored.
(14) Lung cancer was elevated among men employed as insulators (odds ratio [OR] = 6.0; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.7, 137.8), carpenters (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0, 1.7), painters, plasterers, and wallpaper hangers (OR = 2.0; 95% CI = 1.2,3.3), structural metal workers (OR = 1.9; 95% CI = 0.6,6.0), mechanics and repairers (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0,1.7), motor vehicle drivers (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 1.2,1.8), police and firefighters (OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.1,2.3), and food service personnel (OR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.0,3.5).
(15) The television will finally come off standby and every single dress I own will be on its own hanger.
(16) Walker suggested Hanger's final report would be "impossible" should Rudd not be allowed to fully answer "suggestions" made by the current government that the home insulation scheme was created in days.
(17) The handles are attached to the slitlamp stand by placing a hanger bolt screw into the wooden dowel, inserting the exposed end of the screw through a hole drilled in the slitlamp table, and fastening the handle with a wing nut.
(18) Turn right at a crossroads to the Beech Hanger Woodland.
(19) It has been quite a phenomenon, telling us how, still, market dogmatism rules the economics profession (and its hangers-on in journalism).
(20) If this scene feels out of place in 2016, that may be because there was a time in this country’s history when thousands of back-alley and coat-hanger abortions prompted calls for the procedure to be legal.