The question here is whether and why giant honeybees do not recognize hornets outside the distance of 50 cm as a threatening peril.
The case highlights the life-threatening perils of indiscriminate and often excessive intake of calcium-containing supplements in an appropriate clinical setting.
Sinkholes now are becoming a life-threatening peril.
Sakharov warned of grave perils threatening the human race, called for nuclear arms reductions, predicted and endorsed the eventual convergence of communist and capitalist systems in a form of democratic socialism, and criticized the increasing repression of Soviet dissidents.
It has also created great perils, threatening the very existence of the human species.
By Thierry Delvigne-Jean DAKAR, Senegal, 18 October 2004 – More than two hundred community and religious leaders from across Africa discussed the perils threatening the survival of Africa's children, at the Pan-African Forum which opened here today.
Other perils threatened: A long war that would try American patience; the likelihood that street fighting, with heavy casualties, might be needed to take Baghdad; even the possibility that Mr. Hussein might escape, as Osama bin Laden did, or that no weapons of mass destruction would be found, making the war look like a wild-goose chase.
And why, though many other global perils threaten us far more, does fear of terrorism uniquely bring the world together?
But it is worth remembering that millions of children whose lives are threatened by other perils are worth fighting for, too.
Apparently he is oblivious to the perils of Avian Flu, SARS, Ebola and Zika threatening our national security and the health and lives of millions of people.
In these times the west, or what we used quaintly to call the civilised world, is threatened by two opposing perils, one actual and near, the other notional though becoming a reality at an ever-increasing pace.
