(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.
Spartan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
(2) They built spartan, concrete residential blocks on their remaining property, subdivided them into scores of tiny rooms and rented them out to migrant workers from the countryside.
(3) Simultaneous measurements of biochemical and physiological events of compensatory renal hypertrophy were made in groups of white Spartan rats.
(4) The very first inkling of what would be dubbed the Bristol sound was the Wild Bunch's spartan treatment of Bacharach and David's classic The Look of Love , released in 1988 on 4th & Broadway.
(5) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(6) Gaskill’s Spartan staging of Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret in 1966, received dreadful notices that led to a ferocious tussle with the London critics.
(7) Opened last year by the Irish Youth Hostel Association ( anoige.ie ), its somewhat institutional architecture, utilitarian concrete floors and Ikea furnishings may be too spartan for some, but the bright interiors and views of Glencree valley more than compensated.
(8) Alfred Parsons (1864-1952) was noted for his vigour of mind and body and Spartan habits and his dramatic teaching.
(9) Nevertheless, again, unusually "normally" for a royal, he attended school, even if it was the notoriously spartan Gordonstoun.
(10) George Jameson, rallying with Reclaim Australia in a replica Spartan military outfit, said they weren’t racists and had come together to stand up for freedom of speech.
(11) There's a suggestion the player will also take control of another Spartan investigating the series hero – more on that later.
(12) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
(13) The episode is illustrative of Sontag's emotionally spartan childhood, which produced a self-contained but not insular child.
(14) Orwell's letters were bucolic - lots of stuff about horses, flowers and fishing - but the references to the house suggest that 'spartan' may be too generous a description.
(15) For now, Halo spin-off Halo: Spartan Assault remains exclusive to Windows-powered device.
(16) *** Five hours before the People’s PPE meeting, I pitch up at a grim-looking office block next to Euston station, buzz the entry phone and go up a couple of flights of stairs into a warren of spartan rooms.
(17) 10.10am: Barry Glendenning's paper view has arrived to round up the Fourth Estate's perspective this morning: In the Mirror, Oliver Holt is busily fighting John Terry's corner, claiming that the former skipper deserves credit, not opprobium, for being the only England player prepared to speak out about the "spartan regime they have been living under for the last five weeks".
(18) Apart, perhaps, from Skipper's spartan office which looks out over a car park and the windowless neighbouring building of the department of work and pensions.
(19) It was here that he refined his incomparable talent for drawing, but in his early years he was drawn to history painting – young Spartans , Semiramis – and the dreamy style of symbolists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau .
(20) It portrays the heroic endeavours of 300 Spartans, under King Leonidas, who are shown resisting an invading force of 120,000 Persian troops led by Emperor Xerxes.