Sentence examples for are less perilous from inspiring English sources

Occasions when a player tries to dislodge the ball but accidentally slips up towards his rival's shoulders are less perilous than a tap-tackle from behind.

The risk of side effects are less perilous than allowing the diseases these vaccines prevent from running unchecked.

If they had, Britain's position might now be less perilous.

Our present state would be less perilous if we had spent less on trying to purge developed nations of disease and more on vigorously promoting public health programs throughout the rest of the world.

In Congressional testimony, Mr. Trumka said the Enron case showed that the current system of retirees' receiving defined benefits was less perilous than one in which people managed their own retirement accounts.

With their management fees and other costs displayed clearly, mutual funds presented as products sold by brokerage firms rather than self-governed companies might be less perilous, said Mr. Wallman, who now runs Foliofn, an online brokerage company.

The loss of respective key forwards Taylor Walker and Matthew Pavlich to injury has been less perilous than predicted but it's the Dockers' miserly defensive methods, created by coach Ross Lyon and corralled by unfashionable full back Zac Dawson, which should see Freo succeed against Adelaide's stickytape attack.

"It was around the edge of the water that Lauren and Mike noticed what appeared to be crocodile tracks, and not having their mobiles to phone for help, they decided to go to the far edge and swim across what they suspected was crocodile-infested water which they reasoned was less perilous than staying in the forest overnight.

The ghost's world may be one of jeopardy, but it's probably less perilous than it is depicted in Robert Harris's thriller The Ghost, a book credited by many with outing the ghost's tradecraft.

And, he added, today's geopolitical threats are far less perilous than those of the Cold War.

Of course, desk jobs are far less perilous than those of, say, workers on the manufacturing line.