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She said she was left "feeling violated, isolated, vulnerable and paranoid" as she worried that any prosecution would imperil her young son, her place at university and her opportunities to work in the future.
The president added: "While the past must be respectfully recognised, it must not imperil the potential of the present or the possibilities of the future – ar feidireachtai gan teorainn – our endless possibilities working together".
The connection you share with her father may indeed imperil your future with your fiancée, but turning your past into a dark secret is also a life sentence for misery.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, warned McConnell that changing the USA Freedom Act would imperil House passage of the revised bill, and increase the amount of time during which three sections of the Patriot Act that expired at midnight on Sunday are no longer available to the FBI.
The tech firms must come to terms with the fact that every previous form of communication from the conversation to the letter to the phone has been open to some form of eavesdropping: they cannot claim their realm is so distinct and inviolate that it can imperil others' lives, especially as the number of people who need to be monitored is in the thousands.
There is little evidence that Americans are any less weary of war, especially when it comes to complex intra-Muslim conflicts.What has changed, dramatically, is a perception that IS and other terrorists in Iraq and Syria imperil American safety, notably following the filmed beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker.
At least when one's 401(k) tanks it doesn't directly imperil one's job.That's little comfort to baby boomers, now forced to delay retirement plans.
The answer, Mr Chirac explained to the nation on July 14th, the anniversary of the 1789 revolution, is that if he were to meet the judges, he would imperil not himself as a citizen ("I have nothing to hide"), but the office of the presidency, the institutional balance of the republic and even French democracy itself.Self-serving tosh from a president campaigning to be re-elected next spring?
None of its friends will want to imperil the chance of revived growth in the euro zone's second-biggest economy.
Pawnbrokers do not make credit checks, and using them does not imperil credit ratings.
Rod Lache, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, believes it would imperil many of the component-makers in North America, which in turn would hit the foreign-owned "transplant" factories that make up the rest of America's car industry.Mr Cole's firm has modelled a scenario in which Detroit's production falls by 50%.
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The primary grammatical function of "imperil " is as a transitive verb . It requires a direct object, indicating what is being put in danger. Ludwig examples show it used to describe actions that place assets, safety, or future prospects at risk, such as "imperiling the potential of the present."
Expression frequency: Very common
