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It's an innovative financial tool that has great promise and great peril.
Predicting the future is always fraught with peril, yes, but demographics is an exception.
Ignore it at your own peril.
Named-peril policies specify risks covered and exclude everything else.
There is aloofness, a divide, between those in power and those in peril.
But, the-peril-of-positive-thinking link goes to a blank page.
Such coincidences are ignored at one's peril, so the review's going up.
But the authorities play with the government-bond market at their peril.
We begin to see that it's at their own peril that designers disregard critiques.
Above all, central bankers now know that they ignore macro financial stability at their peril.
But the vanishing reefs could face peril if we fail to sustain them.
Some worried that their liberties would be put in peril.
We neglect this spirit of inspired immaturity at our own peril.
It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her to walk securely amid all peril.
And yet it is not simply in his record of aggression, cruelty and recklessness that the peril to the wider world resides.
So stall at your own peril.
The road to recovery is fraught with peril, but now is the time for a more balanced, humane policy.
Any life that was present or developing on Earth at the time would have been in constant peril of being blasted out of existence.
But dredging up these negative thoughts isn't the only peril of positive thinking.
He would spend the next eight years at it, at some peril to his sanity.
Even if the initiative goes nowhere, it is fraught with political peril.
But at the end of the day, we forget at our peril the obvious: these guys are really, really smart.
All-peril policies specify risks not covered but include everything else.
All have their own advantages and disadvantages, which are ignored at a designer's peril.
The school reforms are popular with parents, he says, and politicians know they meddle with them at their peril.
But unless they work well together and the roles are clear, it is an unnecessary peril.
Globalisation, for one, has increased the sense of peril.
One area that holds out both undeniable peril and extraordinary promise is energy.
However, he is in some peril of turning from a skeptic into a denier.
Still, here was the author's attempt to allow opposites-peril and bliss, furtive lovers and traditional family-to harmonize.
The psychologists wanted to explore more directly this link between psychological distance and real peril.
But opponents who dismiss her as an airhead do so at their peril.
Sports fans ignore her diagnoses at their peril — reconfiguring your imaginary lineup based on her instincts can really pay off.

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