Word: imperilling
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...just as it only takes one or two decisions to imperil a court's reputation, a handful of high-profile cases can restore faith. For years, Malaysia's once highly regarded courts had been beset by allegations of bribery and eroded independence. Then, in November, a top human-rights activist whose 13-year battle against charges of maliciously publishing false news - an allegation international human-rights groups decried as trumped up - finally won her appeal. The same month, a Malaysian court overturned the Home Minister's decision to jail a dissident journalist without trial. Two court cases may not sound...
...number of Google searches for ‘moral hazard’ tripled in the last few weeks for a reason. Think of the precedent this would set: We’re enabling an entire prospective wave of pillaging, leveraging money-chasers, some of whom will no doubt imperil us again...
...Tibet. After bloody anti-Chinese protests in mid-March were suppressed by the Chinese military, Beijing closed the Himalayan region off from the outside world and made scores of arrests. Those moves brought widespread international condemnation, which in turn sparked a nationalistic backlash in China that some feared might imperil the smooth running of the Beijing Olympics this August...
...this week for kidnapping two Austrian tourists on Feb. 22. A man identifying himself as an AQIM spokesman said the couple - identified by Austrian media as Andrea Kloiber, 43, and Wolfgang Ebner, 51 - were in good condition, but warned that any armed attempt to free the captives would gravely imperil their lives...
...Paris, often prone in the past to take action in conflicts that imperil friendly African regimes, has thus far taken pains to stay out of the current Chadian conflict. Though French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been in repeated phone contact with Déby throughout the crisis, his proposals to help have been limited to offering the President safe passage and refuge in Paris - a proposition the mutiny-hardened Déby declined. But despite what French Defense Minister Hervé Morin called France's "neutral" position in the conflict, he and other diplomats have begun venting anger over...