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How to use the word imperiled in a Sentence?

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The Administration supports H.R. 263, the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which would build on existing laws that protect big cats like tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and other wild animals living in captivity in the United States, the Administration looks forward to working with Congress to take additional steps to protect the public and imperiled large cats through H.R. 263, as it proceeds through the legislative process.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Fossil fuels are driving the extinction crisis, and the Bureau of Land Management is making things worse by failing to protect these imperiled species.

Brett Hartl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By gutting key components of the Endangered Species Act, one of our country's most successful environmental laws, the Trump Administration is putting our most imperiled species and our vibrant local tourism and recreation industries at risk, we will be taking the Administration to court to defend federal law and protect our rare animals, plants, and the environment.

Maura Healey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Emperor has contributed more than all of Japan's prime ministers combined in advancing reconciliation, these efforts to restore dignity to Japan's victims has also helped the nation regain a dignity that remains imperiled by revisionists.

Jeremy Yellen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The island of San Domingo, situated in tropical waters, and occupied by another race, of another color, never can become a permanent possession of the United States. You may seize it by force of arms or by diplomacy, where a naval squadron does more than the minister, but the enforced jurisdiction cannot endure. Already by a higher statute is that island set apart to the colored race... I protest against this legislation as another stage in a drama of blood. I protest against it in the name down, in the name of peace imperiled, and in the name of the African race, whose first effort at independence is rudely assailed.

Charles Sumner

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11 years ago

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