(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.
Jeopardy
Definition:
(n.) Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
(v. t.) To jeopardize.
Example Sentences:
(1) The governing body said then that Russia’s hosting of the 2018 tournament was not in jeopardy.
(2) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
(3) The disadvantage is that agents used to prevent thrombosis can place the hemostatic mechanism in jeopardy.
(4) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(5) Five year survival was 97% in patients with a jeopardy score of 2 and 95, 85, 78, 75 and 56%, respectively, for patients with a jeopardy score of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12.
(6) He says his job is to ‘base search on really understanding what the language means’.The most successful example of natural-language processing to date is IBM’s computer Watson, which in 2011 went on the US quiz show Jeopardy and won (shown above).
(7) In light of the deterioration of Iraq in the past weeks, they extracted promises from Campbell to review the pace and scale of the administration's drawdown – a sign that Campbell's nomination is not in jeopardy – even as Campbell dismissed concerns that the Afghan military would prove as fragile in post-US Afghanistan as Iraq's did.
(8) Nato's exit strategy in Afghanistan appeared to be in serious jeopardy on Tuesday, after it emerged that the US military command had set fresh limits on joint operations with Afghan troops in the wake of a rapid increase of "green-on-blue attacks" involving local soldiers turning their guns on their foreign mentors.
(9) The second part of the article addresses issues pertaining to assessment of infant development and interventions provided for infants whose development may be in jeopardy.
(10) It does not take a scientist to explain that with this expansion things will be displaced, and it doesn't take a professor to work out that media studies and citizenship studies will be in jeopardy.
(11) However, the patients with an early peaking MB CK had myocardium in jeopardy as reflected by a higher incidence of ST segment depression and a decrement in the global left ventricular ejection fraction with exercise.
(12) The former patients appear to be in double jeopardy with respect to synchronous neoplasms, these being more prevalent and less accessible than in patients with non-occluding tumors.
(13) "Luzhkov and Baturina have only turned into democrats because their wealth is now in jeopardy," Milov suggested.
(14) But, look, this guy has done things that have damaged and put in jeopardy the lives and occupations of people in other parts of the world.
(15) An apparently well patient may be in great jeopardy while you are delivering the most skillful dental care unless adequate precautions are taken.
(16) Lederer, a physician, objects to this application of patient autonomy because it might place the surgeon in legal jeopardy of collusion in suicide and would undermine the principles of nonmaleficence and mutual trust.
(17) The left ventricular ejection fraction was more closely related to prognosis than was the jeopardy score.
(18) The message is clear: Clinton is the elderly grandmother who comes round for tea and biscuits and then has to be driven home when she falls asleep in front of Jeopardy.
(19) Cellino’s position as Leeds owner could therefore be in jeopardy as the Football League’s owners’ and directors’ test disqualifies individuals who “have unspent convictions for offences of dishonesty”.
(20) Social work practice, however, has historically been involved in community intervention and environmental manipulation to offset social and psychological jeopardy.