Word: imperil
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There's much more to this richly detailed, sometimes humorous film: Tom undertakes an affair with his best friend's wife (Aure Atika); he and his Chinese piano coach (Linh Dan Pham) fall in love despite the fact that they don't share a language; he manages to profoundly imperil his father when he screws up an attempt to collect a debt from a Russian crime lord...
...billion?the first increase since 2000. Yet even as the club struggles to overcome illegal bookies, powerful new competitors are springing up. In nearby Macau, a welter of Las Vegas-style casinos are scheduled to open in the next few years, giving Hong Kongers more ways to imperil their paychecks. The number of tourists visiting Macau jumped 53% in the first half of the year. It's enough to make a punter long for the good old days, when the sport of Kings was the only game around...
...certify that a "credible" election could be held under these circumstances. That leaves the U.S. to either launch an offensive to retake Sunni towns form the insurgents in the brief window of opportunity between the U.S. election and the scheduled Iraqi one - and risk a backlash that could imperil the prospects of political survival for the government it has appointed - or else delay the election or allow it to proceed on flawed lines...
...Mosque after cease-fire talks broke down last Saturday, the government in Baghdad had once again jammed on the brakes. That was because it had become clear to Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that a frontal assault would wreck the national conference designed to produce an interim legislature and imperil his prospects for achieving popular legitimacy. The Najaf issue eclipsed the conference's agenda and dominated discussions on Saturday and Sunday after hundreds of Shiite delegates angrily denounced the planned action in the holy city. Although Allawi rejected delegates' demands that he order U.S. forces to withdraw from the city...
...waged forced the Marines to fight with one hand tied behind their backs: Sadr's men were holed up in and around the Imam Ali Mosque, the holiest shrine in the Shiite Muslim tradition, and any damage to the mosque could provoke a massive Shiite uprising that might imperil the entire project of remaking Iraq...