Sentence examples for treacherous undertaking from inspiring English sources

But then, just as suddenly as he had embarked on his treacherous undertaking, the neighbour left: "He remounted his horse, his men keeping their eyes on him for some signal he might give them, very astonished to see him leave and abandon his advantage".

Cross, a graduate of Columbia's architecture school and a self-described design junkie, was discussing his campaign to revamp the team's graphics and to introduce Jets fans to good design — a treacherous undertaking, like trying to foist helmets and shoulder pads on the Kirov Ballet.

This makes navigating the literature about truth-makers a treacherous undertaking but a necessary one because of the significance the debate about truth-makers bears for contemporary metaphysics.

When the first academic book about Rand's philosophy appeared in 1971, its author declared writing about Rand "a treacherous undertaking" that could lead to "guilt by association" for taking her seriously.

A French stuntman has fallen nealry 100ft to his death while preparing to undertake a treacherous tightrope walk between two hot air balloons.

A new video, which global children's charity Theirworld shot in February and released Thursday, shows the country's shoddy makeshift schools and the treacherous journeys that children undertake to get to them.

His 1950s song "The Red Rock" was banned for years; the authorities feared that its romantic narrative about three young men equipped with "an old dream, a map and a water bottle" on an adventure that turned deadly would beckon more young Israelis to undertake a daring and treacherous journey through the Red Mountains to the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, then enemy territory.

One month after her attempted suicide, Wollstonecraft agreed to undertake the long and treacherous journey to Scandinavia in order to resolve Imlay's business difficulties.

"The CIA has further represented that this sort of operation would not be undertaken in a perfidious or treacherous manner," the white paper says.

The journeys bear many similarities to the treacherous voyages that many Middle Eastern and African refugees have undertaken across the Mediterranean and that not infrequently end in death.

In some Guatemalan rural communities, people are virtually entrapped into undertaking the journey by unscrupulous loan sharks in league with often treacherous coyotes.