And while that sounds like good news for the farmers, a growing number of scientists fear it is imperiling the monarch butterfly, whose spectacular migrations make it one of the most beloved of insects — "the Bambi of the insect world," as an entomologist once put it.
And it is imperiling our children's future, as sea levels rise, extreme weather ramps up and arable farmland dries to dust.
It can also invoke a reorganization needed to save the business, but it has to prove that it's imperiled.
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.
As they see it, our collective survival is imperiled by the modern "dream," as he put it, that sees nature as an endless fount of resources.
When politicians forget this, it's not so much government that is imperiled -- it is spirituality itself.
MBIA, an insurance company whose very existence is imperiled because it underestimated the risks involved in mortgage lending, says the banks owe it billions because they lied about the mortgages backing securities that MBIA insured.
But when the credit system is imperiled, as it is now, you have to focus on saving the system, even if it means bailing out people who don't deserve it.
American food aid to the starving is imperiled ― for Congress, it's an easy cut.
The European Union does not have a constitution, but it does have important institutions whose legitimacy is imperiled.
