Fugate, a soft-spoken, bespectacled figure who hosted the LA launch of Obama's memoir Dreams From My Father in 1995, gives more credit to progressive achievements – achievements that would be imperilled under Trump.
The only remedies, in fact, were resources that would be imperilled under Trump: stringent environmental accountability, as well as funding for maternal health care, childhood nutrition, early-childhood education, and other programs thought to mitigate lead's long-term effects.
SunEdison's financial troubles have imperilled dozens of projects under way globally.
And Mosul, where the Isis insurrection in Syria morphed into a phenomenon that imperilled the regional order, is under increasing threat from regrouping US-backed Iraqi forces.
Some, like Laura, are survivors of domestic violence seeking safety in the U.S. Others, like Elizabeth, are Dreamers, undocumented youths who were granted relief from deportation under President Obama, only to have their status imperilled by his successor.
Though the protests were sparked by the electoral reform proposals, they were fuelled by concern that the existing freedoms and rights enjoyed by residents under the "one country, two systems" framework are imperilled by Beijing's tightening grip, and that migration and closer integration with the mainland are wearing away its culture.
It's very easy to imagine not only that journals like Godfrey Williams' are under threat, but that the very idea of the daily diary is imperilled by blogs, PDAs and the teeming distractions of modern life; that Bridget Jones's Biro could soon be replaced by the blogger's beloved keyboard.
Their whole Thatcherite consensus could prove imperilled.
U.S. sovereignty is not imperilled.
In "The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government," published in 1873, the journalist James Shepherd Pike described a set of circumstances in which the white population was imperilled by the presence of black elected officials in the state legislature.
"The President kept talking about sovereignty as if it were imperilled," Richard Haass, the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the head of the State Department's policy-planning staff under the George H. W. Bush Administration, told me.
