Characters in the parental generation neglect their progeny to such an extent that they imperil the survival of their own lineage.
Deep-rooted difficulties – including poor access to health services, low awareness of hospital deliveries, under-equipped health facilities and shortages of qualified health providers – combine to imperil the survival and well-being of the children and women living here.
This would please linguists who fear that the spread of English imperils the survival of other languages.
The IUCN, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, United States Geological Survey and many leading polar bear biologists have expressed grave concerns about the impact of climate change, including the belief that the current warming trend imperils the survival of the species.
And as the weakness of an organization becomes apparent, highly resilient individuals are more likely to jettison the organization than to imperil their own survival.
It is well known and widely accepted that the US debt crisis will imperil the very survival of the country.
A parochial politician who substitutes marketing for leadership, deploying inflammatory language without regard for consequence, yet fearful of taking any action which might imperil his own survival.
"Although already fabulously wealthy by the time of the criminal conspiracy of which he stands convicted, Defendant's greed was such that he would willfully imperil his workers' survival to further fatten his bank account," they wrote.
In a speech to thousands of Jewish-Americans in Jerusalem on November 10th he more or less called the American president and his envoys naive to the point of imperilling Israel's survival.
This is Mubarak's dilemma: stay with the siege and hope America will reward him with Gamal's succession; but flouting the winds of change may imperil Gamal's very survival.
