But it is the ones that he has not gotten of late that are making his bid for a third-term, if far from imperiled, maybe something less than a slam-dunk.
The government is headed for a shutdown at midnight Thursday, and there's only one serious deal left on the table that could stop it — but it's imperiled by opposition from both the far left and the far right.
That settlement was recently imperiled by a filing from the Department of Justice that said it still had significant legal problems with the agreement, even after a round of revisions.
Several weeks ago, the mayor wrote a $500,000 check to help keep the dwindling and increasingly imperiled State Senate Republicans from losing their grip on power, according to an official with direct knowledge of the donation.
What feels galactically remote in "Alien Trespass," and in the half-century-old movies it evokes, is the people, the "ordinary" human beings whose existence is so direly imperiled by superior intelligences from far, far away.
Ecology Bad News for Coral Reefs So beautiful, and so imperiled: a research team from the University of Exeter in England surveyed 19 Caribbean coral reefs and found that the production rate of calcium carbonate — which the reefs need to grow and flourish — was "extremely alarming," according to the lead scientist.
From his spartan London office, he directs the activities of the sandbaggers: covert operatives who are dispatched around the world on assignments of highly variable savoriness, from lifting imperiled agents out of hostile territory to assassinating captured colleagues before state secrets can be spilled.
Meanwhile, Bashar Assad's regime has had an enormous reversal of fortunes from its imperiled position just over a year ago.
A closely allied species, D. officinale Kimura & Migo, is a similarly imperiled Chinese endemic, suffering from overharvesting for anthropocentric purposes.
A $9 billion spending bill to help Colombia combat drug traffickers and to pay for American military operations in Kosovo is imperiled because of stiff opposition from Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, the majority leader, and fiscal conservatives in the House and Senate.
