Sentence examples for risk of mayhem from inspiring English sources

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"Each individual hour increased the risk of mayhem and murder," he said.

But it will only find takers for its local-currency bonds if it can convince them that the risk of mayhem is slight.

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Stores have seen waves of panic buying, and a wholesale warehouse was looted overnight.The risk of such mayhem is precisely why the prime minister had stalled on Mr Coke's case, ever since the United States filed its extradition request last August.

Not least of the "various factors" (Paski's own phrase, which I concede could have been expanded upon a lot more) that made U.S. authorities tread so carefully for 19 months was the risk of violent mayhem breaking out, either just immediately at the arrest scene or on a national and possibly long-lasting scale, given Libya's febrile condition.

Intelligence and law enforcement officials said the authorities in Boston weighed the risks of some mayhem against their growing fear that time was slipping away and that heavily armed and increasingly dangerous men, and possibly accomplices, could wage new attacks in the Boston area or beyond.

What about the risk of unleashing international mayhem?

Mr. McCollum, the fleet manager, said the department considered using the vehicle for regular duty, but decided that it deserved an easier road, safe from the risk of damage and mayhem.

By embracing the principle of prevention, Mr. Bush risks mayhem by setting a precedent that individual countries can decide for themselves when to start a war against a suspected threat.

Without it they reckon there would be mayhem and the risk of a third Palestinian intifada (uprising).

At the risk of being a killjoy, I have to say that Tarantino is not quite the Pied Piper of mayhem — the joykill, so to speak — that he wants to be.

Lots and lots of mayhem.

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