Sentence examples for peril has been from inspiring English sources

Recently a long-delayed but powerful public response to the nuclear peril has been growing.

At other times, the societal peril has been physical and imminent.

Now, Dmitri Nabokov has announced that "Laura" will indeed be published, and suggests in a Q. and A. conducted by e-mail with the Week in Review that, in fact, her peril has been exaggerated.

But the significant similarity relates not to the slippery distinction between action and nonaction but to the fundamental concept of 'duty'; in each a situation of peril has been created, with respect to which a tort action would lie without having recourse to the contract itself.

He fears that peril has been impending since November 2013, when Camden council gave permission to the West End firm Consolidated Developments to hollow out the one-acre site to the north of it: "I could see that money was rolling in and creativity was rolling out.

1. Colleges' financial peril has been exaggerated.

Helping to keep the party together in its acute moment of peril had been his greatest achievement, Healey would later tell visitors.

He shot me a look of comic astonishment — eyebrows high, forehead furrowed, a quirky smile working his mouth — to say that his survival was far more mysterious than his peril had been.

Stringer, a senior Bakersfield officer whose plaudits for once saving a colleague in peril had been overshadowed by his arrest for a hit-and-run while driving under the influence of prescription drugs, reached under the bloodied white sheet and tickled De La Rosa's toes.

10 Despite increasing awareness of the fraudulent drug epidemic, efforts to quantify and stop this peril have been stymied by multiple obstacles, not the least of which is agreement on definitions.

These perils have been one factor scaring investors away from American stocks.