Sentence examples for put in perilous from inspiring English sources

Women were put in perilous positions and forced to make impossible decisions between a deadly illegal abortion or worse.

However, should other hedge funds be put in a similar perilous situation, investors contend, things might get difficult.

They have rammed the Sun Laurel, putting them in perilous danger, and simply abandoned them".

But leaving its TV home base puts it in perilous new territory.

Dicks admits the manager must bear overall responsibility for the dismal season, but maintains that West Ham would not be in such a perilous situation had a number of the club's players put in the required effort.

Cameron is rather uninspired, lacking vision and given to putting the country in perilous positions in order to try and keep the Conservative Party in one piece (see: referendum, European Union).

The Moroccan runaway-turned-dancer's friendship with Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has put him in a perilous fix.

"A lot of our teachers are saying 'I wouldn't teach it because it would put me in a perilous position,' " she said.

One danger for Mr. Obama is that he may be forced to abandon his own party on Afghanistan for the right, which could put him in a perilous position if Republicans at any point decide they do not want to support a Democratic president on the issue.

You put yourself in a more perilous position if you editorialize or express "political" opinions in the classroom — for instance: "I think the marriage laws should be changed, and Sandra Bullock's cheatin' husband horsewhipped".

Many recognize the setting and the circumstances, and can identify with the blur of questionable choices that allowed an experienced group to put itself in such a perilous predicament.