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Virginia's refusal to provide the match will have a number of negative impacts, the most troubling of which is the imperilment of the impending purchase of new 1000 series railcars.

Transportation group backs McDonnell's proposal to add statewide appointees to Metro board 2010

I know personally, I would march day and night, risking imperilment to demand that the offending soldiers were held accountability to the fullest extent.

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What I could not grant away in imperilment of charter, "said Radulfus with deliberation," I can give freely as a gift from this house.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

What I could not grant away in imperilment of charter, "said Radulfus with deliberation," I can give freely as a gift from this house.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

After their exploits of the morning, and the consequent imperilment of Penrod, they decided that nothing more was to be done in apples, vegetables, or bread; it was evident that Whitey must be fed from the bosom of nature.

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And once he put his ecclesiastical heel in a pail of varnish, and slid down an entire staircase, to the great imperilment of his kindly old soul.

Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

After their exploits of the morning, and the consequent imperilment of Penrod, they decided that nothing more was to be done in apples, vegetables or bread; it was evident that Whitey must be fed from the bosom of nature.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

For it is the right and noble alone that will have victory in this struggle; the rest is wholly an obstruction, a postponement and fearful imperilment of the victory.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

For it is the right and noble alone that will have victory in this struggle; the rest is wholly an obstruction, a postponement and fearful imperilment of the victory.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

If you think about it not that you will while you're watching this show, "Matilda" addresses many of the national worries that dominate the daily news here: an enfeebled and ineffective education system, corrupt business practices, abuses of power, organized crime, the mind-rotting effects of bad television, the imperilment of public libraries and the popularity of those tacky dance competitions.

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