Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, told me the bill was meant to prevent what he called the "Perils of Pauline" problem — referring to the silent movie serial that placed its heroine in repeated danger.
Gen. George B. McClellan, who also had been an American observer during the Crimean War, vowed to "make the prisoners remove [the mines] at their own peril," a threat repeated by Maj.
Though the current housing crisis would have undoubtedly caused problems at both companies, Freddie Mac insiders say Mr. Syron heightened those perils by ignoring repeated recommendations.
While the world's largest independent software company repeated its familiar cautions about potential perils of the global economy, it also said the quarter's results indicated that no slowdown in the desktop personal computer market loomed on the horizon.
In September, the board voted to expand the summer program to grades 3 through 12, placing far more students in peril of repeating.
Entertainment Weekly felt that the "woman-in-peril stuff is second-rate, giving off a whiff of exploitation" while Variety found the repeated violence towards Beckinsale's character disturbing.
Despite repeated fears of a double-dip recession, an economy that has endured a spring swoon for three consecutive years and other potential perils, the country's rate of job creation has been remarkably steady, if subdued.
They would repeat such actions 'at their peril'.
The results are sexy, peculiar, and decorative; Albenda's peril lies only in repeating the winning formula.
By presenting him as the chief culprit, the Chinese are making room for a fresh start -- but also putting the would-be successors on notice that they would repeat Mr. Lee's performance at Taiwan's peril.
