Sentence examples for perilous enterprises from inspiring English sources

In the literature of the fifties and sixties, marriage and parenthood were complex, perilous enterprises, charged with passionate intensity, as described by Mary McCarthy, Robert Lowell and John Updike.

Television comedy is a perilous enterprise.

Is the fate of their perilous enterprise hidden in the apron?

MAKING BIG DECISIONS in the sports business is a perilous enterprise these days.

'We had no problem doing it in the spirit of veteran honouring veteran.' Pigeonholing vets such as Sanders is a perilous enterprise.

In a country where no party can win an outright majority, and the army alternately rigs the elections and seizes power, political planning is a perilous enterprise.Musharraf opts for Fabian tacticsIn the final months of 2007, however, a fairly solid consensus had emerged about the outcome of the election.

Because there are no good answers to these questions, this Court has recognized from Chief Justice Marshall, see Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch 87, 130 (1810), to Chief Justice Warren, United States v. O'Brien, supra, at 383-384, that determining the subjective intent of legislators is a perilous enterprise.

7 1 When he had thus carried through a perilous enterprise, Agathocles ventured upon another even more hazardous.

"Even though I actually liked Banville's book, I thought the whole franchise thing was ridiculous and something of a perilous enterprise for a writer.

After a perilous start, the enterprise takes off, but not before the four learn some brutal lessons in debt collection.

A phantom called "The Chimera" explains its career: I urge men to perilous voyages and great enterprises.