Sentence examples for perilous prospect from inspiring English sources

Cardiff await Sam Allardyce's men in Wales in the play-offs on Thursday night, though it is a perilous prospect for a side whose automatic promotion bid was often unflattering.

Setting out to search for something simple can be a perilous prospect.

However, Mohammed's permit expired when he turned 16, and he faced deportation back to Syria, where the government would force him to serve in the army — a perilous prospect in the chaotic region.

Transporting the oil to Gulf Coast refineries via rail is not economically feasible, as it involves prohibitively expensive start up costs stemming from time intensive expansions in rail infrastructure, not to mention the perilous prospect of a railway accident with devastating environmental consequences.

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One or two misfits will be wondering, "Does the speaker mean parlous or perilous?" In The International Herald Tribune, the historian Roger Buckley writes darkly about "the parlous prospects for the economy".

Choosing "Troyens" as the Bastille's opening gambit looked perilous in prospect.

The Republicans don't want this to happen so the more perilous the prospect of the cliff-face, the more leverage for them, says Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine.

In this regard, the passing of two abominable measures in the Israeli Knesset speak volumes about how far this government will go to advance the right-wing "Greater Israel" agenda, however perilous this prospect may be.

You'd think, for instance, that Germans would have learned from John Maynard Keynes's 1920 book "The Economic Consequences of the Peace," which correctly predicted that the onerous reparations inflicted on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles were economically unsustainable and politically perilous to the prospects for German democracy.

"If money is not paid, Queensland Nickel's position is worse than perilous and Mineralogy's prospects of continuing litigation and maintaining valuable assets in its subsidiaries are seriously at risk," Couper said.