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the terrorist attack imperils peace talks
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Goddamn Italian perfectionists, he cursed, now imperiled by the same artistic excellence he taught his students to revere ....impeccable edges, faultless parallels, and of course, use only of the most seamless and resilient Carrara marble.† (source)
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Here we have two very brilliant young students, each of whom runs into a problem that imperils his college career.† (source)
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The industrial revolution was just starting up, and this new world would threaten everything people had known during the Enlightenment; at the same time, the new science and the new faith in science—including anatomical research, of course—imperiled many religious and philosophical tenets of English society in the first decades of the nineteenth century.† (source)
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The only important participants absent were the original defendants; in their stead, as it were, stood Judge Tate, old Mr. Fleming, and Harrison Smith, whose careers were imperiled-not because of the appellant's allegations per se, but because of the apparent credit the Bar Association bestowed upon them.† (source)
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Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.† (source)
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It is also my duty to inform you, that before his departure my Son became as good as engaged to be married, to Miss Faith Cartwright, a young lady of fine family and impeccable moral character, the only obstacle remaining, being his own honour, which prevented him from requesting that Miss Cartwright bind herself to a man whose life was so soon to be imperilled; and despite his damaged and at times delirious state, she is resolved to respect the wishes of the two families, as well as those of her own heart, and is at present helping me to nurse him with loyal devotion.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
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Any mistake could fatally impair the aircraft's trim and imperil the lives of the flight crew and passengers.† (source)
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And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled.† (source)
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The greater the fog the more it imperils the steamer, and speed is put on tho' at the hazard of running somebody down.† (source)
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He had very little brains, it is true, but he had plenty of muscle: surely, if she provided the thought, and he the manly energy and pluck, together they could outwit the astute diplomatist, and save the hostage from his vengeful hands, without imperilling the life of the noble leader of that gallant little band of heroes.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ING".
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In retrospect I can see that it doubtless would have been unbearable to the point of imperiling her mind had she kept certain things bottled up; this was especially true as the summer wore on, with its foul weather of brutal emotions, and as the situation between Sophie and Nathan neared collapse.† (source)
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This rooting up of his life, this adventure into new lands, the effort to improve his fortune and his state, was his wedding gift to his wife—a bold one, but imperilled already by distrust, fear, and his peasant suspicion of new scenes, new faces, new departures, of any life that differed from that of his village.† (source)
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I told Sana that your brother's escape depended on it—and that giving any more details could imperil the jailbreak.† (source)
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He was worried lest during his late discontent he had imperiled his salvation.† (source)
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For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in so doing imperils my life.† (source)
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