Sentence examples for perilous undertaking from inspiring English sources

The role of Nettie has traditionally been cast with an opera star (sometimes a perilous undertaking), but Ms. Blythe is in every way an ideal fit.

A number of the book's other authors have been censored or jailed, a reminder that whatever its rewards, writing fiction is a far more perilous undertaking in the Arab world than in the West.

One death in five years is one too many but with 6 billion passenger journeys in that time, plus a similar number on the London Underground, it is a fallacy to suggest that rail travel is a perilous undertaking.

If the nine attempted to leave independently, one likely method would involve hiring a smuggler to navigate northern Syria, a perilous undertaking compounded by the counter-offensives of Kurdish forces pushing south.

Meanwhile, Debenhams, Britain's largest department store chain, has been trying desperately to raise funds—a perilous undertaking in the current financial drought.The luxury-goods sector which seemed immune from the general economic downtown, until the sudden demise of Lehman Brothers in September caused even the rich to panic is now in free fall.

As custom dictates, she was buried in the ihram or simple white tunic that she, like any other pilgrim, had worn in Mecca.The haj, which will bring over 2m people to Mecca towards the end of this month, has always been a somewhat perilous undertaking, and pilgrims like devout travellers of every faith and era see facing the dangers of the road as part of their spiritual duty.

It is a remarkable but perilous military undertaking in a sovereign country, particularly in a place of conspiracy theories and constantly shifting alliances, where it is hard to know who can be trusted and where many people are historically skeptical of what they see as intrusiveness by outsiders, this time by the Americans.

Sudjic was drawn to the idea that novels used to be a slightly perilous moral undertaking.

Friday's deaths underscore the perilous work undertaken by the sherpas, who lug ropes, tents and supplies for foreign climbers.

We unearthed unpublished photographs and accounts of the perilous journey undertaken by Palestinian Arabs in 1948, fleeing their homes in the face of the advancing Jewish forces.

What would Iraq be like now if America had approached its perilous, monumentally controversial undertaking with humility, honesty and courage?