What's the difference between imperil and rescue?

Imperil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring into peril; to endanger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many of the plays we produced needed time for research and development in workshop mode – this investment, the provision of time for the development and rehearsal of plays for which I have campaigned throughout my career, was a cornerstone of our work, and could not be stripped away without imperilling the creation of plays themselves.
  • (2) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
  • (3) We need to persuade ministers that our great art galleries, from Manchester to Margate, our flourishing TV industry, our growing reputation for fashion, and all the many other achievements are imperilled if we do not invest in the arts and cultural education.
  • (4) Attempts to salvage patients are indicated when treatment has failed to arrest disease, when life expectancy is threatened, or when return to normal activity is imperiled.
  • (5) Carney said in response: “The issue would be imperiling potentially the achievement of price stability.
  • (6) But with Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress and with a wide-open presidential contest looming, the 20-week abortion ban could soon overcome the obstacles that have thus far imperiled its enactment at the federal level.
  • (7) Claude Turmes, the Green MEP who was the European parliament draftsman for the original renewable energy directive, warned that the UK government's stance would imperil efforts to tackle climate change.
  • (8) Unions can disintegrate because mistakes are made, and I would like to think the Conservatives are not going make mistakes that imperil the future of the union.
  • (9) The success of the D-day landings was imperilled by the marital problems of the double agent at the heart of Britain’s elaborate wartime deception operations, newly declassified MI5 files have shown.
  • (10) The situation demands carefully crafted solutions since it involves millions of livelihoods that are already imperilled by the dwindling of the bay’s resources.
  • (11) Never before had he found his holy body, under the protection of dozens of professional security guards, so imperilled.
  • (12) Dealing with Islamic State, Russia and al-Qaida, and maintaining Britain’s status as a country that is true to its word and punches above its weight - all of this is imperilled unless Labour and the Conservatives have a real discussion about defence spending and the foreign policy challenges the next government will face.
  • (13) I’d rather do it right than do it fast but obviously we can’t wait forever.” A growing list of defections had imperiled the prospect of a vote to even begin debate on the Senate legislation, which would repeal and replace major components of the healthcare law signed by Barack Obama.
  • (14) Enddiastolic flow reductions, based on an increased placental resistance, are provable relatively early, whereas a beginning centralization of the fetal circulation is only recognizable in a closer temporal connection with the fetal imperilment on account of pathological flowprofiles.
  • (15) Their comments on my research do not imperil my interpretation of it or challenge my criticism that classification judgments of acoustically analogous speech and nonsense signals do not permit interpretation, by themselves, in terms of underlying auditory-system mechanisms.
  • (16) Malcolm Turnbull has weighed into the case of a Brisbane hospital that is refusing to discharge a baby facing removal to Nauru, saying the government would not “imperil the health or security of any individual”, as Australia came under further international pressure over its asylum policies.
  • (17) Our highest-ranking soldier, Field Marshal Lord Bramall – no starry-eyed Europhile – warns that if we left, “ a broken and demoralised Europe just across the Channel ” would imperil our security.
  • (18) Though the protests were sparked by the electoral reform proposals, they were fuelled by concern that the existing freedoms and rights enjoyed by residents under the “one country, two systems” framework are imperilled by Beijing’s tightening grip, and that migration and closer integration with the mainland are wearing away its culture.
  • (19) After the successful dissection of AcP's the patients lost the feeling of illness and do not feel being imperilled.
  • (20) 's study imperil both their results and their conclusions regarding developmental stuttering.

Rescue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
  • (v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
  • (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
  • (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
  • (v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (2) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (3) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (4) He also paid tribute to first responders and rescue workers.
  • (5) The war rescued the young men of Brooklyn from the Depression.
  • (6) Marker rescue experiments with alkylated T7 bacteriophage carried out in the presence and in the absence of nalidixic acid suggest that the gradient in rescue is due to two alkylation-induced causes: a DNA injection defect and an interference with DNA synthesis.
  • (7) Moreover, the rescue effect was surprisingly large considering the relatively small number of RPE cells transplanted.
  • (8) The purpose of this study was to review our results with mechanical support as rescue therapy in children with sudden circulatory arrest after cardiac surgery.
  • (9) High-dose thiotepa with autologous bone marrow rescue is a new and promising treatment modality in several kinds of solid tumors.
  • (10) Panel Julia St Thomas, protection and rule of law technical adviser, International Rescue Committee , Beirut, Lebanon , @juliastthomas , @theIRC Julia has been working on human rights issues in the Middle East since 2007.
  • (11) There are no more operational hospitals and not a single ambulance to rescue the ever-growing number of wounded and sick.
  • (12) Fv-1-specific host-range pseudotypes of murine sarcoma virus (MuSV) were developed by rescue from nonproducer cells with N- or B-tropic leukemia viruses.
  • (13) When oocytes were microinjected first with the mosxe antisense oligonucleotide, and subsequently with in vitro synthesized v-mos RNA, meiotic maturation was rescued as evidenced by germinal vesicle breakdown.
  • (14) Fitness for use in pharmacokinetic drug level determinations was shown in three patients, who received both low doses and high dose therapy combined with citrovorum factor rescue.
  • (15) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
  • (16) Forty-nine patients have received OKT3 therapy, with 31 grafts (63.3%) successfully rescued.
  • (17) I ask the Turkish guard to confirm that they will send a search-and-rescue team.
  • (18) The quantum leap in integration being mulled will not save Greece, rescue Spain's banks, sort out Italy, or fix the euro crisis in the short term.
  • (19) Investors and analysts are concerned that while the European emergency fund had enough cash to rescue Greece, Ireland and potentially Portugal, if needed, it may not be large enough to fund Spain's borrowing needs.
  • (20) Banks continue to recover following the UK goverment's £500bn rescue plan announced the previous day.

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