imperilformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking risks
adventurer
all in
be skating on thin iceidiom
bet the farm/ranchidiom
broke
dare
expose
hazard
high wire
high-stakes
imperil
jeopardize
lay
re-expose
risk
run the risk of doing somethingidiom
sail
sail close to the windidiom
skate
sniper's alley

Examples of jeopardizing

jeopardizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

But they may also invade our minds, obscuring what was called the common clinical sense, thus jeopardizing our ability to make the right diagnosis.
We know that material progress depends upon both cooperation and innovation and that each of these needs the other while jeopardizing the other.
These largely syllabic textures and regular text structures allowed scribes to present the songs in non-rhythmic notation without jeopardizing the utility of their copies.
Instead, we concentrate on outlining how co-payments should be designed to avoid severely jeopardizing the goals of health insurance.
Several developing countries may be reluctant to take the lead in raising their environmental standards for fear of jeopardizing their comparative advantage.
Often their choice is to compromise, coming as close as they can to their true policy preference without jeopardizing their standing with their constituents.
But no one has provided evidence of what additional information could be made permissible at a polling station without jeopardizing the electoral process.
In the social imagination, the sewer opened up the drawing room to these destabilizing forces, jeopardizing the very existence of purity in the urban context.
But equation (22) suggests a major disturbance may not be enough to push below the threshold level, jeopardizing the self-organization process.
Without the mandate this margin is reduced to 50-36, jeopardizing some liberal wins by bringing the liberal vote close to a bare majority.
In that case the oscillations in contact force response and in the position of the manipulator tip have appeared, jeopardizing robot performances and in certain cases, causing the system instability.
If not properly modelled, these properties can invalidate the normal distribution assumptions resulting in biased estimation of ecological effects and jeopardizing the integrity of the scientific inferences.
The incentive to build and maintain wheat program base acres was removed and farmers were free to try other crops, including crop rotations on wheat base acres, without jeopardizing subsidies.
Material types, as represented by the structured bill-of-materials, can often be modified without jeopardizing the par t, component, or assembly function.
They cannot be clarified rapidly, here and now, without serious risk of jeopardizing the solution of what really is a crucial problem.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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