Word: imperiled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Protective Shelter system for the MX missile, a bold act which opens the way to a proper assessment of the entire strategic posture. His improvement in command and control will provide the basis for a "launch under attack" capability. This will insure against some unexpected Soviet breakthrough which would imperil the other two legs of our strategic deterent, i.e., a breakthrough in anti-submarine warfare or a breakthrough that would imperil the survival of our strategic aircraft. His proposal to develop both the MX and the Trident-II missile calls for further analysis, however, since the Trident-II could just...
Those pressure tactics not only threaten the review's attempt to acknowledge formally that the current system has not fostered diversity among the journal's membership. They also imperil the autonomy of leadership of the review itself; such meddling is particularly in appropriate among students who deserve respect for their ability to make their own decisions...
...formidable political force in Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. It threatens, if unchecked, to make NATO a useless concept, to strain beyond tolerance the deep but subtle ties that link America with the continent it has twice fought to defend in this bloody century, and to imperil the very ability of the West to stand, free and united, against the encroachments and designs of the Soviet Union...
When the Afro-Am executive committee turned down her request--a move she said would "imperil" her $77,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant--Wright filed a complaint with the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EOEC) and threatened to sue the University, charging that it had discriminated against her on the basis of race...
...raising the zoning requirement to one house on 40 acres. They argue that if the population is allowed to rise, the residents will clamor for flood-control drainage canals, thus further reducing the area's ability to clean and store water. Beyond this, environmentalists point out, development will imperil the East Everglades as a feeding and breeding ground for wildlife in the neighboring national park, home of such endangered species as the Cape Sable sparrow and the Florida panther...