Amsterdam, however, faced a siege that might gravely imperil its trade, while the besiegers themselves ran the danger of being drowned should Amsterdam open the dikes.
But in discussing fairness, they never talk about how fair it is to require taxpayers to bail out reckless institutions when their trades imperil them.
A missile launch, U.S. officials said, would imperil that deal.
A setback could send shock waves through the recessionary global economy and imperil the umbrella World Trade Organization, which was created six years ago to expand trade and regulate conflicts.
Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee who opposes the Thompson-Torricelli legislation, said in an interview this week that both that bill and the new intelligence could greatly complicate or even imperil passage of normal trade relations with China.
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson has warned that the executions might imperil the state's trade relations with Europe, and a crowdfunding campaign aims to help family members of the men make final visits.
The bottom line: Our failed trade policies imperil both Americans' livelihoods and the health of our planet -- two reasons why the more people learn, the less they like them.
"No single issue more gravely imperils the multilateral trading system, from which you benefit so much".
American manufacturers of factory equipment and raw materials have also expressed concern that the trade measures could imperil their sales to China, whose government began its own investigation into whether American and South Korean manufacturers of polysilicon, the main ingredient in the solar panels, were selling the material below cost.
members do seem more willing to take meaningful steps toward an agreement, rather than allowing narrow farm interests to imperil the entire system of international trade rules.
