(v. t.) To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.
Example Sentences:
(1) This tends to protect the myocyte in starvation but jeopardizes the older cell.
(2) Minor technical errors may jeopardize the patency of femoral-popliteal bypass grafts.
(3) Adhesions were formed at the site of the anastomosis to such an extent as to jeopardize the proper position of the bowel.
(4) It has increased costs, jeopardized the delivery of necessary medical services, and corroded the physician-patient relationship with mistrust and poor morale.
(5) Assuming that unrecognized or inadequately corrected hypovolemia results in higher mortality and morbidity rates, we developed a systematic approach to resuscitation that would: 1) identify criteria to aid in the recognition of hypovolemia and ensure the expeditious correction of this defect without interfering with diagnostic workup and management; 2) define criteria to prevent fluid overload which may jeopardize the patient's course, and 3) express these criteria in an explicit, systematic, patient care algorithm, ie, protocol, useful to both the resident and the practicing physician.
(6) Although a noreflow phenomenon was observed in the jeopardized tissue, Gd-DOTA concentration was higher in the subendocardial central ischemic zone than in normally perfused myocardium.
(7) Intrauterine infusion of nutrient supplements and methods to improve fetal acid-base balance may eventually be incorporated into the management protocols of the jeopardized growth-retarded fetus.
(8) Early restoration of flow may salvage the jeopardized myocardium.
(9) Suture anastomotic techniques should be used which minimize endothelial trauma and thus avoid subendothelial tissue reactions which in turn may jeopardize long-term patency and growth at anastomotic sites.
(10) In this paper we present a simple statistical analysis of two networks similar to the Hopfield net, and show that the usage of positive feedback enhances the net recognizing capability without jeopardizing the stability.
(11) Collaterals from PD could be recognized as jeopardized vessels and these collaterals probably participated in the ischemic attack.
(12) This was associated with significant improvement in fractional shortening in the jeopardized zone at 24 hr after reperfusion.
(13) Postoperative complications can jeopardize the results of surgery.
(14) James Bopp, the former chief counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, has written that early bans on abortion could wind up being “a powerful weapon in the hands of pro-abortion lawyers that would jeopardize all current laws on abortion”.
(15) When referred to a surgeon, a pregnant woman with a suspicious mammary mass deserves an expedient histologic diagnosis; delay may jeopardize the chances of survival.
(16) Renewed efforts are under way to apply clinically oriented coronary venous retroperfusion methods for treatment of myocardium jeopardized by major coronary artery obstructions.
(17) For these reasons, physicians have a special opportunity and ethical obligation to resist and oppose torture as well as to support physicians whose lives or professional careers are jeopardized by their refusal to participate in torture.
(18) Four senior government officials” described the content of her emails to New York Times journalists in minute detail “on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to jeopardize their access to secret information”.
(19) In a strictly controlled outpatient programme the need for dilatation and curettage can be greatly reduced without jeopardizing the safety of the patient.
(20) These, and the other departures from normal structure described, must jeopardize monitoring of muscle activity in the manner normally attributed to spindles and their capacity to provide useful proprioceptive information is questionable.
Menace
Definition:
(n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
(n.) To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
(n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
(v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(3) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(4) Aneurysmal occlusion with an extrafocal shunt can allow one-stage surgery when aneurysm and neoplasm are equally menacing.
(5) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
(6) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
(7) Although chronic total coronary occlusions are no clinical menace in contrast to stenoses, they frequently deserve revascularization and are the reason to select bypass surgery over angioplasty.
(8) Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message or matter.
(9) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(10) The family member was one of five men executed by Isis in the terror group’s latest propaganda video, shot in the head as they submitted to their tormentors while a new English-speaking frontman made menacing threats to Britain.
(11) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(12) Maged understands better than most the menace of coastal erosion, which is steadily ingesting the edge of Egypt in some places at an astonishing rate of almost 100m a year.
(13) Now the focus seems to be on new geographic menaces rather than new technological ones.
(14) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
(15) But if you do, yet still allow your editors to use inciteful over insightful language, then far from standing up for Britain, you're a menace against all things that make it great.
(16) The club’s new president, Bruno de Carvalho, has denounced as a “menace” and “monster” the funds to whom majority stakes in almost the club’s entire squad were sold before he was elected in March 2013 and he vowed to end the practice.
(17) 2.32pm BST Blimey... Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) Menacing sight en route to the Maracanã.
(18) It's an extraordinary, sprawling world, powered by magic and steampunk technology, populated by humans, cactus-people, insectoid, amphibian and avian races, dripping with myths and monsters and menaced by repressive regimes.
(19) For days, BBC reporters on the spot repeated the words panic, threat and menace by the hour.
(20) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)