"jeopardize the system" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to put something at risk or in danger of being compromised or harmed. Example: The new software update could potentially jeopardize the entire computer system if not installed correctly.
In finance, however, the collapse of a single firm can jeopardize the system, and as with Knight Capital's teetering on the brink last week, it can happen very quickly.
The segmented power supply avoids the scenario in which one failure could lead to system failure and thus jeopardize the system's reliability and availability.
The aims of this paper are to jeopardize the system's untraceability criteria and to outline a countermeasure by precisely describing the database query mechanism.
Focusing on lightweight RFID security protocols; we examine the server responses for several RFID tags and realize that if the database querying is performed through a static process, the RFID system is subject to timing attacks that could easily jeopardize the system's untraceability criteria.
Focusing on lightweight RFID security protocols, we examine the server responses for several RFID tags and realize that if the database querying is performed through a static process, the RFID system is subject to a timing attack that could easily jeopardize the system's untraceability criteria.
But he doesn't think that Canada should give into pressure from other countries to make changes that could jeopardize the system.
This development is jeopardizing the system-wide energy, economic, and environmental benefits that distributed cogeneration still has to offer.
The merger would be the first since the financial crisis to create a bank with more than $50 billion in assets, the regulatory definition of a systemically important financial institution -- one whose failure could potentially jeopardize the banking system.
We do know that too much concentration in finance increases risk, since a handful of dominant players are more likely to make the same kinds of mistakes, and jeopardize the entire system.
When the authorities leveled a record $1.9 billion penalty against HSBC in a money-laundering case, they stopped short of indicting the British bank, saying that such a move could jeopardize the financial system.
The Volcker proposal resembled an amendment by Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, Democrat of Pennsylvania, that would let regulators dismantle financial companies so large, interconnected or risky that their failure would jeopardize the entire system.
