Sentence examples for direct peril from inspiring English sources

A more direct peril is negotiations conducted by an ill-prepared and belligerent American president inclined to go it alone.

Whenever the U.S. faces a "threat" nowadays, our leaders treat it aggressively as a "cancer" even when the threat poses no direct peril to us.

That ruling was trumped by Proposition 8, a voter initiative that changed the state constitution and defined marriage as "between a man and a woman". George later made a speech about "the perils of direct democracy," in which he examined the 2008 ballot initiatives, including one that regulated the confinement of backyard fowl.

Each of them is in peril, each frightened by a direct question concerning her raison d'être (that daunting phrase they are just beginning to hear).

But when he tries to direct a fictional story, he confronts the perils of movie-making and has to decide if it is time to escape.

In late March, Mr. Mitchell and Peter Martins, a principal dancer at City Ballet who became artistic director of the company after Balanchine's death in 1983, talked with Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times backstage at the State Theater about the joys and perils of directing ballet troupes.

The experience of Oregon, which has taken the most direct and aggressive action, illustrates both the promise and perils of trying to inject science into addiction treatment.

WOLFGANG PETERSEN can't stay away from directing movies dealing with water, ships and people in peril.

Maxwell J. Mehlman considers the promises and perils of using genetic engineering in an effort to direct the future course of human evolution.

So strong is Schubert's music, so direct is Müller's verse and so finely intelligent is Bostridge's singing that all peril is overcome and art gains.

It is quite evident that the perils presented by climate change are greatly on the rise, and that its direct effects on individuals like you and me are out of our control.