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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
jeopardise .
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Examples
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Returning after a lunch adjournment, Davis was scathing about the legal manoeuvring, saying the court was being put in an impossible situation and its dignity had been "jeopardised".
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Unions have claimed that a rescue plan for 1,200 workers who lost their jobs when a maintenance firm went out of business was now being "jeopardised".
icCheshireOnline 2010
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Unions have claimed that a rescue plan for 1,200 workers who lost their jobs when a maintenance firm went out of business was now being "jeopardised".
icCheshireOnline 2010
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However, should the accounts of the ruling elite be frozen, some of those investments might be jeopardised, Newton added.
Libya uprising forces oil price to highest point since 2008 2011
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An alternative view – and apparently a minority one, which happens to be mine – is that the World Cup, a tournament whose attractions have withered over the past decade, is so diminished by so many one-sided contests that its very existence is jeopardised.
Netherlands face England aiming to show associates belong in World Cup | Vic Marks 2011
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"The overall pattern raises a question about whether the constitutional propriety of the political independence and neutrality of the monarchy are being jeopardised by a long-standing pattern not just of work on good causes but on campaigning on political issues, which are sometimes party-political."
Royal charities lobbied ministers and officials, papers reveal 2011
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The Labour proposal to elect authority chairs grapples with the exact same problems as the jeopardised Home Office plans, which may now take years to implement.
Public service reform: A bungled police operation | Editorial 2011
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The Gypsy Council said Travellers' rights had been jeopardised.
A stone's throw from Dale Farm, travellers' stand-off simmers on 2011
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A spokesman for Bondcare said: If Southern Cross goes into administration, the care of these residents in our view would be jeopardised.
Fears for elderly as biggest care homes firm faces breakup 2011
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A spokesman for Bondcare said: If Southern Cross goes into administration, the care of these residents in our view would be jeopardised.
Fears for elderly as biggest care homes firm faces breakup 2011
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