Sentence examples for perilous practice from inspiring English sources

Mr. Henson, refusing to continue the perilous practice of drawing down the endowment (now around $140 million) to cover deficits, proposes cuts that would reduce the orchestra's annual budget from $32 million to $26 million.

One would think it might be perilous practice to start undercutting one's rivals, in a business which rests on every product being priced eponymously, but such is the length to which Poundland has gone to reclaim this rather downmarket West Midlands High Street.

If Jesus' experience is any indication, turning over tables in the temple is a necessary, if potentially perilous, practice.

It is a perilous exercise.

We hate it because it can drag us closer to the perilous zones of illegal practice than any other complaint.

But like many things on Wall Street, the practice can become perilous if not properly policed.

This is a perilous departure from the universal practice of investing such authority in the highest official of the nation.

But the practice can be perilous, since real people are often left out of the computerized trading process.

Whether such laws are non-reducible in principle or merely in practice is a perilous prediction to make.

Journalists who faced personal danger to cover wars in Iraq and Africa, and others who exposed perilous working conditions, predatory lending practices and the sexual exploitation of homeless children, were among the winners of 14 George Polk Awards for 2003 announced yesterday by Long Island University.

Re "It's Even Worse Than You Think," by Howell E. Jackson (Op-Ed, Oct. 9): The government's accounting practices are so perilous that the media have an obligation to educate the public, most of whom do not understand the consequences of deficit spending.