More marginal, more "at risk," and more controversial life styles still feel less salient, and less politically appealing.
Like many others here this week, Ueberroth and Jim Scherr, the U.S.O.C.'s chief executive, said that American athletes were free to express themselves politically, at the obvious risk of obscuring their athletic endeavors that already were long ago marginalized by those who sold the Olympic soul to the corporations and the networks.
In that battle, Mr. Rumsfeld now admits, he had more at risk politically if, as defense secretary, he could not finally kill a weapons system, than could actually be gained along the Pentagon's bottom line.
Is something or someone at risk politically, financially or physically due to the event or issue?[61].
"They're convincing people that we're at risk either politically, or at risk as a nation".
Only the Greens backed the SNP, saying the "reputation" of a politically independent civil service was at risk.
WHEN the last remaining American forces withdraw from Iraq at the end of this month, they will be leaving behind a country that is politically unstable, increasingly volatile, and at risk of descending into the sort of sectarian fighting that killed thousands in 2006 and 2007.
In terms of striking that careful balance, she told me: "We're faced with more and more censorship of words that have been deemed politically incorrect and we're at risk of becoming a nation that is losing its freedom of speech.
She said the legal process was now at risk of being "politically hijacked", adding: "It is deeply upsetting.
The president was at risk of seeming politically timid and calculating, standing at the sidelines while a large number of Americans — including members of both parties — embraced gay marriage.
