Sentence examples for public peril from inspiring English sources

Now Augsburg, a municipality outside Munich, has braced itself for this new public peril.

The privilege between a therapist and patient ends where the "public peril begins," the court said.

Judge Haight said in 2003 that he would allow greater police powers because the nature of public peril had changed.

The document also states: "The Communications Act of 1934 authorized the President, if he deems it necessary in the national security or defense and the requisite threshold condition exists, to use, control, or close communications services, systems, and networks under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission in conditions ranging from 'state of public peril' to 'war'".

They do so at the public's peril, forgetting and obscuring the stunning benefits of immunization, antibiotics, revascularization, and refinements in chemotherapy.

And when the time came to exchange gifts with the royal family, an exercise fraught with potential public-relations perils, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, were more than prepared.

To decide to wait, however, continuing surveillance in the hope of developing better proof, is to risk losing the suspects and placing the public in mortal peril.

The organization he led from 1964 to 1986, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, does not include such municipally muscular groups as police officers or firefighters, who can put the public in swift peril by striking or engaging in work slowdowns.

And listening in public has its perils, too.

Peter Peterson, a private-equity billionaire, is spending most of his fortune trying to educate the public about the perils of fiscal incontinence.

In the late 19th century, when women started taking over the field, they were paid half what men were for clerical work — but twice the salary of a public-school teacher, Peril finds.