Sentence examples for treacherous elements from inspiring English sources
At any rate, Miller's superiors think that he intends to sell the battery to enemy powers, but twinkly-eyed, diminutive-yet-muscular Miller insists he is actually protecting this gizmo – a classic Hitchcockian "MacGuffin"– from treacherous elements among those very superiors who want to make a few dollars by making it available to the bad guys.
Folks drown in this treacherous element.
The political symbolism of public displays of affection has long been known to be treacherous, especially when Communists or other unsound elements are involved.
So far all he has is a letter from George Bush to Mr Qurei referring to "further West Bank withdrawals".Too well liked by the IsraelisMr Arafat's supporters say Mr Dahlan is making a treacherous power grab, egged on by "foreign elements".
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Twin suicide car bombs that targeted a notorious military intelligence compound shook the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Thursday, killing and wounding hundreds of people and raising the likelihood of extremist elements propelling the conflict to a more treacherous phase.
The primary culprits are not museum robbers and looters of antiquities sites, but two even more treacherous forces that now have fewer checks on their power: the elements and developers' bulldozers.
Most significantly, the Papers document Marsh's treacherous 1870s expeditions with his students, and these records became a core element of McCullough's research.
What they saw had all the elements of a melodrama: on the one hand, a desperate people setting loose their most violent, treacherous impulses in order to resist the inevitable, and on the other, brave men performing the dangerous work of securing the frontier for a more enlightened order.
A substantial part of the genome of higher eukaryotes consists of stretches with low-complexity such as the short and long interspaced repetitive elements (SINEs and LINEs) and other transposons [ 31] and these regions makes gene assembly treacherous since reads can be conjoined because they share a similar repetitive region.
While the term treacherous has not been defined, as previously noted it is not regarded as prohibiting operations that depend upon the element of surprise, such as a commando raid or other form of attack behind enemy lines.
