In an age that imperiled humanity with nuclear Armageddon, the issue was whether America could keep pace with Soviet strategic capabilities, maintaining the balance of terror — an assurance of mutual destruction, with hundreds of millions killed outright — that had dominated the nuclear arms race and strategic planning throughout the postwar era.
Infrastructure in the form of pipelines and railways carrying oil and commodities from Canada's hinterland are now imperiled, along with the value of the Canadian dollar.
Under this latest scenario, though, nearly the entire island I grew up on would be imperiled, along with much of the current low-lying property on the entire Eastern Seaboard.
The great historic churches of Harlem do not seem imperiled, and indeed, with their nonprofit housing and local economic development arms, some have fueled the demographic and economic transformation and resurgence of the neighborhood.
On the Road, directed by Walter Salles, premiered at Cannes last May, but it was Stewart's appearance at Toronto in September -- her first public outing since the cheating scandal that imperiled her relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson -- that created the bigger sensation, and kicked off a frenzy of Internet searches for screen shots showing the actress with her top off.
All of them could easily have required answers that would forge links in a chain of facts imperiling petitioner with conviction of a federal crime.
One ad, aimed at Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, shows an imaginary news broadcast reporting that the Supreme Court has struck down the law, imperiling people with pre-existing conditions, and that the newly confirmed Justice Kavanaugh cast the deciding vote.
Mr. Grant said he could not "for the life of me think of any conceivable source" for an article in The Mail on Sunday in 2007 that claimed that his relationship with the socialite Jemima Khan was imperiled by late-night conversations with a "plummy-voiced" British-born film executive, "other than the voice mails that were on my mobile telephone".
The species remains gravely imperiled by hunting, conflict with locals and habitat loss.
He also has an interesting profile to serve as a partner for a set of owners whose financial empire has been imperiled by their dealings with Bernard L. Madoff.
