Sentences with phrase «peril of»

Such suffering seems to be the case for residents of King Farm, some of whom would choose the freedom to be stuck in Beltway traffic rather than face the peril of a community divided by train tracks.

That means that the rest of the world — particularly China, which is building almost every type of reactor on offer, and Russia — may well inherit the promise and peril of nuclear power, whether small or large.

Statistical evidence argues that holding up banks is a dangerous and unlucrative career that nets the average bank robber the annual salary of a cafe barista — and at the peril of getting caught or shot

In his new book Gotham Unbound, Ted Steinberg says Hurricane Sandy showed the peril of ignoring the city's true ecological footprint.

Another turning point is coming, and maybe soon, via CRISPR / Cas9, a biotechnology that holds the promise of curing genetic diseases (and the peril of making permanent, heritable tweaks).

«Double danger: The peril of childbirth for women with rheumatic heart disease.»

The last time official Washington was so captivated by the political peril of a Congressional leader was back in late 2002 when then Majority Leader Trent Lott (R - Miss.)

An elected official in the Town of Alden hasn't paid his property taxes in more than five years and is in peril of losing his home to foreclosure.

But even after those reforms, accusers are still relegated to speaking anonymously, their careers in peril of stagnating.

We will resist any such plans by the government by all lawful means, even at the peril of our very lives.

The taxi driver, who, at the peril of his own life, stopped two armed robbers in their tracks on Saturday in Accra, deserves national recognition, former President Jerry Rawlings has said.

Plan for 100 Percent Clean Energy: The peril of climate change is upon us.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the case illustrates the larger peril of potential funding cuts.

No longer content with deriding «illegal» migrants, or «swarms» of refugees seeking protection, the government has turned its attention to the hitherto unnoticed peril of migrants with jobs and visas who come here to work, pay taxes, create jobs, and support our ageing population and underfunded public services.

Exceed those limits at peril of in - flight ejection from helicopters.1 Which essentially is the point that making demands in deep favour of labour in parliament result in the abolition of parliament as we know it.

The taxi driver, who, at the peril of his own life, stopped two armed robbers in their tracks on Saturday in Accra,...

I'll want to know the thought pattern of how a 31 year old air force man decided to take control of a nation at the peril of his life.

A few folks got a darker yellow than they expected — this is the peril of computer monitors and color accuracy, unfortunately.

That's the peril of adopting with a primarily foster agency, and something that can happen no mater how you're trying to build your family.

Most women are faced with the peril of low milk supply at some point during their breastfeeding journey, whether at the beginning, middle or end.

Walcott needs to realise the peril of his position and put it right quickly.

But with the present owner our club is in mortal peril of it's long term support which leads to death by blood loss.

But the ghost of the mechanical - determinist idea still haunts the intellectual world, functioning as a favorite straw man to be pummeled by those who need a horrible example of reductionism to warn us against the dire peril of investigating the relationship among class, ideology and ideas.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

For in holding fast to the revelation of God in Christ, brought to us through the Church, as supreme, adequate, definitive, we are led to see that there can be continuing expansion, development, restatement, reconception, without peril of any essential loss.

That is the peril of tradition, its penchant to displace the Word of God.

Others ignore the peril of our predicament and indulge in wishful thinking.

Few men have been more aware of the peril of the uncontrolled tongue than James was.

Tawney said that the man who «seeks God apart from his brethren is likely not to find God, but rather the devil, whose face will bear a surprising resemblance to his own» That is, unless we broaden our perspective and correct our idiosyncrasies by sharing with our human brethren, we are in peril of conceiving God simply as ourselves writ large, with all our peculiarities, self - centeredness, and imperfection.

None may disregard it save at the peril of losing his happiness and his home.

From Elijah on, they were not, as they commonly are pictured, progressives, but conservatives; they were contending for an ethical heritage in peril of being lost.

But privilege is relative to context, and we forget that to our own peril (or, more likely, the peril of others).

If aesthetic enjoyment with spiritual lethargy is the peril of the wealthy city church, plainness with lack of spiritual passion is the pitfall of the poor rural church.

A government that makes a policy of denying the normative character of these customs in favor of a vague multiculturalism does so at the peril of the larger culture to which it owes, yes, its own core identity as a constitutional government.

This does not mean that such a quest should presuppose a given christology, or that it should be oblivious of the peril of modernizing Jesus, this time perhaps in terms of existentialism.

The medieval Crusades against the Turks show the peril of not reading the Bible properly.

Pointing to the ultimate from the standpoint of the conditioned, these symbols give an answer of assurance to counteract the threat and peril of meaninglessness.

In her knowledge of God she had a treasure of such serene exaltation that she might not, at peril of her soul, retain it as hers alone.

, we ignore this cultural behemoth at the peril of our own irrelevance.

The presence in our body politic of such a party is the only means by which democracy can be saved from its present moral chaos, from the tyranny of entrenched interests, from the insolence of a predatory officeholding party system, and from the peril of a fascist dictatorship of big business, on the one hand, or of a communist dictatorship of the proletariat, on the other [December 31, 1932].

The peril of nuclear war is so great that it may bridge the great ideological chasm between the two blocs and make them conscious of having one thing in common: preference for life over death (The Structure of Nations and Empires [Scribner's, 1959]-RRB-.

The church, as it engages in evangelism, apologizes for this fact or sidesteps it at the peril of its own institutional survival and at the peril of the new believer's life in Christ.

They underestimate the peril of anarchy in both the national and the international community.

Christians are always faced with the temptation to overrate the opinion of other human beings, and to try to be pleasing to other people, to the peril of their relationship with God (see John 5:44, Gal.

I sometimes fear that just as Germans today look back on the early 1930s and say, «How could we have been so blind as not to have seen the peril of Hitler?

In his contribution, «The All - Determining God and the Peril of Determinism,» David Polk explores the meaning of God as the «all - determining power» in Pannenberg's system.2 The question of power is a difficult one, as Polk shows: if Pannenberg overemphasizes God's control, he falls into the morasses of determinism alluded to in Polk's title; conversely, «the freedom of the other» must be «genuinely authenticated» (TWP 159).

He noted the peril of specialization in modern culture, which tends to isolate religious thinkers from those in philosophy, art, politics and science.

When this surrounding culture is at the same time «worldly» — cultured in the narrower sense, demanding conformity at the peril of loss of social status — the problem is intensified.

In his stunning new book Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1983), Harold J. Berman argues that the roots of modern universalistic principles of law, morality, science and scholarship derive from essentially theological insights which are now in peril of being lost by neglect.

But the controversy over «Noah» illustrates the promise and the peril of bringing the Bible to the big screen.