What might seem unthinkable one day ― like abortion becoming illegal in America ― can quickly come to pass the next day if good people sit by idly and allow their silence to co-sign perilous ideas that soon become perilous laws and have perilous consequences.
He got the pols to commit to his politically perilous policy ideas.
The catch, it would develop, lurked in a perilous contingency: Whose idea?
His bracing, even startling, book, "Jihad and Jew-Hatred" (translated by Colin Meade), reminds us that it is perilous to ignore idiotic ideas if these idiotic ideas are broadly, and fervently, believed.
Jones, the corporation's chairman and a lawyer in Albany, said last week that "we had no idea" that the perilous hazing activities were taking place at the Plattsburgh house.
Yet, I truly had no idea of my perilous situation.
The idea that in these perilous times we need less of these more mature ways of coping with our fear and anxiety is absurd.
But the challenge, Mr Willetts believes, is to overcome a historic legacy of underinvestment - and a lack of policy attention - in the R&D stage that can see ideas successfully cross the perilous valley.
The idea that it is a perilous age for young, chart-topping rockers has been around for some time.
For example: The old notion that the paragraph should be the basic unit of composition, containing one central idea, has been deemed medically perilous.
