Sentence examples for palpable risk from inspiring English sources
"The palpable risk that this bill poses to the public safety of our residents is deliberately lost on the N.R.A. and the Democratic and Republican sponsors of their bill," said Ms. Norton, a Democrat.
"The deadlock instruction," the majority said, "gives rise to an unconstitutionally palpable risk that one or more jurors who cannot bear the thought that a defendant may walk the streets again after serving 20 to 25 years will join jurors favoring death in order to avoid the deadlock sentence".
"There is a palpable risk that Afghanistan will again turn into a failed state, this time in the hands of drug cartels and narco-terrorists," Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, writes in a grim new report on Afghanistan.
Or alternatively, it may be the minimum needed to appease nationalist pressure and hold a state together, albeit in a loose, ramshackle way.Both in Kosovo and Macedonia, there is a palpable risk that rows over devolution, and other seemingly technical issues, could lead to fresh shooting.
In Egypt, the current plan calls for elected members of parliament to elect a constituent assembly with a simple majority, with the palpable risk that the assembly will represent only a limited political strand, and not the colorful pluralism of Tahrir Square.
He attributed this largely to "an improving economy, coupled with some concerns about future inflation (not to mention the still-palpable risks of investing in residential mortgages)," he said.
These politicians would have us believe that our nation's women and girls are at risk, in palpable danger from this grave and pervasive threat.
Waisel wrote to the court: "In light of the insufficient dose of midazolam, it is substantially likely that McGuire [is at] substantial, palpable, objectively intolerable risk of experiencing the agony and horrifying sensation of unrelenting air hunger.
Even "Catch Me If You Can," another lighthearted film about a master impostor, conveyed a more palpable sense of risk and provided some notion of how its protagonist carried off his impersonations of a pilot, a doctor and a prosecutor.
The greater risk is palpable: The ten-year Treasury is four times as rate-sensitive as the two-year Treasury.
