Sentence examples for they imperiled from inspiring English sources
As collaborators, Holland and the princes of Orange could make the clumsy governmental system work with surprising effectiveness; as rivals, they imperiled its potency as a state, at least until one or the other emerged a temporary victor, but neither force was able to rule permanently without the other.
In pursuing this approach, Saudi leaders should be cognizant that not only are they imperiling regional and global security, but they are also following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein.
The main perquisite is lower borrowing costs, a result of lenders' assumptions that the giants are less risky because they will be in line for government assistance if they become imperiled.
European officials confronted a palpable sense of impatience and resentment from their counterparts, drawing accusations that they have imperiled the fate of the globe by repeatedly failing to prop up ailing member states.
Such easy viewing (I never left the truck) lulled me into thinking these were common birds, but Mr. Berg said they are as imperiled as Alakai's forest birds.
They said the service academies all had systems to ensure the admission of minorities, believing in a need for an integrated officer corps, a goal they said was imperiled by the president's stance in the Michigan case.
PAGE A3 Ordeal in the West Bank Recent violence has split Jewish settlers between those driven by a religious mission and those who had mainly sought a better life, which they now see imperiled.
While they may have brought Arab nations closer than ever to fulfilling of the promise of self-determination that has echoed through the speeches of American presidents since Woodrow Wilson at the end of the First World War, they have also imperiled crucial American allies, empowered antagonistic Islamists, and unleashed sectarian animosities that threaten to drag the whole region toward chaos.
(In a black irony, they are now imperiled by the return of the cod itself).
WASHINGTON -- A group of U.S. Postal Service employees and supporters launched a hunger strike Monday on Capitol Hill, urging action from lawmakers in order to save an agency they said was imperiled by Congress itself.
