Sentence examples for perilous trick from inspiring English sources
Omar, a rangy 22-year-old with a crooked smile from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, had tried for most of Tuesday night to perform the perilous trick of the "dougar" specialists by attaching himself to the underside of a stationary truck with a belt fashioned from webbing and a steel hook.
The trick is to avoid the perilous cycle of over-commitment, misery, overwhelm and defeat.
The British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, added: "We must target the traffickers who are responsible for so many people dying at sea and prevent their innocent victims from being tricked or forced into making these perilous journeys".
"We must target the traffickers who are responsible for so many people dying at sea and prevent their innocent victims from being tricked or forced into making these perilous journeys," he said, calling for a "comprehensive, co-ordinated response" to the regular deaths.
For the most part, Mr. Niccol doesn't continue down this perilous avenue, though like other filmmakers he can't resist tricking out his resident storm troopers, a policelike unit known as the Timekeepers, in regulation black and shiny, shiny leather.
A late-night boat ride in the Bay, to trick a blindfolded Slahi into believing he was headed to an even more perilous place, featured Guantánamo personnel punching him, kicking him and filling his jacket with ice.
And despite new revelations of accounting tricks in Lehman's collapse — "materially misleading" gimmicks that Lehman used to mask the perilous state of its finances, according to the bankruptcy examiner — the role of speculators in that debacle remains a hotly contested issue, both on Wall Street and in academia.
These are perilous times.
