Even aside from the obvious fact that I did not commit fraud, and thus couldn't sign on to any such thing, to do so would have also constituted a dangerous precedent, and it would have endangered my colleagues each of whom could now have been depicted as a former associate of a convicted fraudster.
Sixteen Egyptian rights groups voiced concern, saying the trial constituted a "dangerous, unprecedented shift in the Egyptian's judiciary's treatment of such cases" and represented "a grave violation of both the right to a fair trial and the right to life".
What constitutes a "dangerous" and/or "unusual" weapon is not a self-evident question.
From the military's vantage point, the inroads by Islamic-oriented civil servants constitute a dangerous weaving.
James Haskell, musing aloud on the issue of what constitutes a dangerous tackle these days, put it perfectly.
In an argument that could be lifted wholesale into the American presidential campaign playbook, Reid maintains that populists, powered more by charisma than by meaningful experience or constructive ideas, constitute a dangerous trend.
In those three hot spots, Mr. McCain could constitute a dangerous gamble for this country: Iran seems determined to continue its uranium enrichment and will be vexing for any president.
In his first speech on climate, in June 2001, Mr. Bush defended the need for more research by saying, "No one can say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided".
But as the Catholic Encyclopedia said, in 1910, in its chapter on Logos, "Hellenic speculations constitute a dangerous temptation for Christian writers" — even when the writer happens to be Pope.
Thus, does society's view of what constitutes a dangerous drug depend on fashion, familiarity and the way the drug is used.Will the hysteria about heroin one day seem equally quaint?
Shapiro boasts the unusual distinction among graduate students of having his dissertation work challenged in court on the creative grounds that it constitutes a dangerous "mosaic" of individually legal parts that, were it released, could "significantly and irreparably damage national security", in the words of the FBI.
