In a special session of the legislature, lawmakers approved the new child support rules, undoing a rejection that had jeopardized US involvement in an international treaty and threatened to collapse the state's payment system.
An epigram on his superior, the Greek Hadrianus, Deprecatio ad Hadrianum, jeopardized his civil post; but, by assiduously praising Stilicho, minister of the Western emperor Flavius Honorius, and denouncing his rivals at the court of Flavius Arcadius, he gained the position of tribunus et notarius, the rank of vir clarissimus, and the honour of a statue.
By directly associating himself with the overthrow of the parliamentary regime, however, and linking his fortunes to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Alfonso jeopardized the existence of the Spanish monarchy.
In addition, Descartes may have felt jeopardized by his friendship with intellectual libertines such as Father Claude Picot (d. 1668), a bon vivant known as "the Atheist Priest," with whom he entrusted his financial affairs in France.
Two unconnected factors jeopardized the success of the New Deal program.
But the death of Leo X in the same month jeopardized his career temporarily; after the election of Pope Adrian VI, he was at first deprived of the governorships of Modena and Reggio but recovered them at the end of 1522.
With war seemingly imminent and the Butterfield route jeopardized by growing North-South tension, there was an urgent demand for fast central-route mail service despite the widespread belief that dependable service along a central route was impossible.
Such confidence is "a state interest of the highest order," as the Supreme Court described it in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal (2009), and would be jeopardized if judges were perceived as having come to their offices "by asking for favors".
As speaker of the House (1801 07), he was one of the most important leaders of the Jeffersonian, anti-Federalist faction, who feared that individual liberties and interests would be jeopardized by a national government.
The destruction of the Japanese navy and air force jeopardized the home islands.
Rejecting liberal democratic nationalism and distrusting Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's policy because he believed that it jeopardized the continuity of German history and embraced cooperation with popular movements, Ranke nevertheless welcomed the foundation of the empire in 1871.
