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Synonyms for imperil

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Synonyms for imperil

to subject to danger or destruction

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Synonyms for imperil

pose a threat to

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Robert Kagan's The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World serves as a poorly argued excuse for continued U.S.
recovery are modest goals intended to move the very most imperiled
"With Dubai Summer Surprises being such a busy time for the mall, we feel it is the ideal platform to also host this event and educate shoppers on the importance of stopping illegal ownership and trade of exotic animals." "As per the Cites convention, imperiled animals, including their skins and taxidermies, as well as plants should be disclosed at airports, sea and inland ports by passengers to Dubai Customs inspectors, otherwise it will be considered as smuggling and will be an offence punishable by law," Tawakul added.
CBD considers the agreement a big win and a key piece of its decade-long campaign to safeguard 1,000 of the nation's most imperiled, least protected plant and animal species.
"Hawaii is called the extinction capital of the world--and invasive species (plants, animals and humans) have imperiled this Garden of Eden," she observes.
Under the administration's proposal, individual agencies could decide on their own whether a project would harm an imperiled species.
With an ever-expanding world population facing an increasingly imperiled environment, what does the future hold for food production and consumption?
How dare the sacred rights of an artist be imperiled. But looking at Kammer/Kammer, and recalling the rest of Forsythe's recent work, I say, "Right on, Frankfurt!
The imminent obsolescence of their small-gauge formats adds melancholic force to their respective portraits of futile acts, foreshortened lives, and imperiled sites.
As in this animal-human gathering, in nature, balance and harmony are imperiled by irregularity or unpredictable biological behavior for which no host defenses are immediately available.
from across the country speak out about our imperiled seafood supply.
So the 527s are now in the crosshairs of the reformers, and speech is newly imperiled and must be newly defended.
A picture may speak a thousand words, but time-lapse photographs of an imperiled tidal marsh in Darien, Connecticut are more likely to leave viewers speechless.
Other courses now available or under development investigate the causes of species loss and decline, the reasons for protecting imperiled species, and the Endangered Species Act.