Sentence examples for dire jeopardy from inspiring English sources

"They have placed the futures of the very employees that they propose to represent in dire jeopardy".

In those instances, circumstances will swiftly conspire to raise the existential-absurdist ante and place his and others' lives in dire jeopardy.

Meanwhile, millions of American lives are spiraling down into a financial black hole, and even those of us with jobs find our pension funds, I.R.A.'s and life savings in dire jeopardy.

The world's scientists have weighed in clearly, stating that greenhouse gas emissions need to peak this decade, otherwise the stability of our climate and weather systems are in dire jeopardy.

Asserting that gun manufacturers are in dire jeopardy from a raft of lawsuits by state and local governments, the firearms industry plans to start running commercials during prime-time coverage of the Republican National Convention next week attacking President Clinton and other politicians, mostly Democrats, who support the litigation.

The Social Security Administration has warned that the system is in dire jeopardy and will go bankrupt by 2029 at the latest, and perhaps as early as 2016.

Pushing the memo, she thought, as she stared out at the crowd now in dire legal jeopardy, had been a mistake.

Others are in jeopardy.

If the players know the history of their own union, they will recall that the then-radical concept of a salary cap — albeit one that could be exceeded to retain a team's existing players — was implemented in 1983 in large part because six teams were said to be in dire straits and four in jeopardy of folding.

Almost two months after the sickness took root on Feb. 19, closing over 1,000 farms and marking more than one million cloven-hoofed animals for slaughter, the authorities along with individual hoteliers and retailers have come to realize that the perception overseas of their land is so dire that Britain's $90 billion-plus tourism industry is now in jeopardy.

Final Jeopardy!