"Great peril" means that there is a significant danger or risk involved, often indicating a very serious or precarious situation.
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And like the best stories of heroes beyond our own powers, it'll give audiences the world over somebody new to look to in times
of great peril.
Every new climate - damaging project that is approved puts us all in
even greater peril and makes recovery even harder.
A century ago traveling across an ocean would take months and came
with great peril.
In so doing, players will control both siblings at the same time in order to solve puzzles, defeat beasts, and
survive great peril.
There's a reason the European world went looking for spices, even
at great peril; spices make food taste so much better!
Marriage does not always go well, to be sure, but by and large the alternative would yield an
even greater peril.
Some of these guys have never met one another before, and they are about to put their lives
in great peril.
Set in 1940, the year of Britain's
greatest peril from the Nazi menace, it boasts a towering lead performance by Gary Oldman.
Upon Summers» departure from the White House, President Obama said, «I will always be grateful that at a time of
great peril for our country, a man of Larry's brilliance, experience and judgment was willing to answer the call and lead our economic team.»
«War is one of the conditions of progress... The day that humanity achieves a great pacific Roman Empire, having no external enemies, that day its morality and its intelligence will be placed in the
very greatest peril» — that was Ernest Renan, author of the famous life of Christ.
As earlier confessed, the course had usurped from Trinity itself the role of bearer of a blessing to the larger community: we had tried to impose such a boon on Trinity and to ignore what Trinity had labored
through great peril to deliver.
Yet Labour will be in
equally great peril if Jeremy's presence on the ballot distracts attention from the fact that two of his rivals are currently offering only superficial modifications to the Miliband approach that just consigned us to one of the worst defeats in our history.
There is, of course,
after great peril and tribulation, Miguel's realisation of what love and family really mean, while holding on to his own hopes and aspirations.
If you can't weather a bad economic time you will be in
much greater peril and you're putting yourself in danger of default.
The folks in
greatest peril here, of course, are those in that clique, if these same questions are posed to them during serious top - level investigations.....
His theory: In earlier periods, when famine was more common, people with unusually large brains would have been
at greater peril of starving to death because of gray matter's prodigious energy requirements.
While acknowledging that it could be «a moment
of great peril to the fine fabric of social idealism which has painfully been woven in the consciousness of modern Christianity,» they chose to offer cautious support to the new Republican president, suggesting that they believed his promises to create some substitute for the League.
Roy is finally coaxed off of the couch when he is given a brand spanking new entertainment center and satellite system, which unbeknownst to him is actually a device that will suck anyone that ventures too close into a sort of TV Hell, trying to survive the nonstop cavalcade of dangerous television programs designed to put the participants
in great peril.
You can't believe the blowback: Their clients felt so wronged, so betrayed, and abandoned at the time of
greatest peril, this was their revenge.
«
The greatest peril in America today,» he wrote his own journal in 1918, «is a knavish press... pouring out the floods of falsehoods, like poisoned gas which blinds us and makes it impossible for us to see straight or to think straight.»
This may be
the greatest peril we face in championing religious liberty — the danger that our call for sustaining a space for living out our moral vision might be mistaken for an argument that the sustaining of space for ourselves is itself the essence of our moral vision.
Again aggregates of people collaborate to recall mythic memories, to symbolize present accomplishment, and to project a final triumph often wrought from
great peril.
Paired with brimstone, it warns that the justice of Yahweh is forgotten only at
great peril (Deut.
But we do so at
great peril to our cosmology and to our general vision of things.
While this was the context in which Christianization of the Third World took place, it must be borne in mind that the Gospel was brought to us with
great perils, to people who did not know of it.
In my own experience, and from what I've heard in the feedback, general busy - ness is by far
the greatest peril to a plant - based switch, followed closely by the more «regular» dietary needs of spouses and children.
La Academia's
greatest peril, though, may come from Major League Baseball.
I became convinced that he'd be the right guy to handle the economy at a time when it's at
great peril.»
Anyone who has paid attention to the progress made on the Republican side knows that they've caught up since and that we ignore their advancements at
great peril.
«It's a bit irritating living out of a bag, but it's not one of
the greatest perils in life.
Trans women and LGBT people of color are at
greatest peril.
«If a near - Earth object is approaching Earth and we are in
great peril, then the U.N. Security Council can make its own decisions about what to do,» says Hans Haubold, a senior officer with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, who has co-authored several papers with Remo.
We are acutely aware that jumping to conclusions comes at
great peril.»
To argue otherwise it to willingly expose autistic people to
greater peril than we already face.
This phase of the recovery cycle is ignored at
great peril to your gains; if the muscle fails to receive additional stimulus during this time, overcompensation gives way to «involution,» which is basically a return to normal.
When all else fails, animals can be your biggest allies or
your greatest peril, as Kyrat's wilderness delivers on the promise of a true open world anecdote factory.