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How to use the word risking in a Sentence? Page #4

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The Christmas season – often a season where Christians around the world are most visible – is a tense time for Christians in Saudi Arabia, who have to celebrate the holiday in secret, risking arrest and deportation.

Jeff King

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s a shame that so many people are risking their lives for the country and not being given to opportunity to come here.

Alex Joshua

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

As a result of his behaviour, Turkish President Erdogan is risking the withdrawal of the German army.

Andreas Scheuer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

So we have a framework here which doesn't help Puerto Rico, harms the state and local marketplaces by risking an expectation and change in the rules and raising borrowing costs, so if it is not for Puerto Rico, and it is not for state and local governments, I'm not sure who this bill is for.

Hector Negroni

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is one of those leap of faith movies, Could this happen? We are dealing with memory exchange. We're dealing it with animals, of course. I think no doubt though if the world was in the balance, I don't think they'd have a problem risking someone's life like they did with me, so I just try to play it honest. I know it's a big leap. I know when something's really grounded and we know when we have to make a big leap but movies can do that and we try to and I hope we got over that hump.

Kevin Costner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Specifically, the board believed that the consortium’s proposed $ 108 million CFIUS reverse termination fee would not adequately justify risking the company stockholder premium present in the ON Semiconductor transaction.

Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It says to the NYPD, you have to be very cautious about taking your gun out, to the point of risking your own life.

Robert Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Oh, so he's like an organizer, risking his life for the good of the community, that could help your case.

Elquin Gonzalez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Kim Jong Un has been promoting the fisheries, which could explain why there are more fishing boats going out, but North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift, and fishermen starve to death.

Kim Do-hoon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift, and fishermen starve to death.

Kim Jong

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The South China Sea is a classic example of how China thinks about, and is probably succeeding in, rejecting and displacing U.S. primacy in the region, without really risking (major) conflict.

Michael Wesley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Kim Jong Un has been promoting the fisheries, which could explain why there are more fishing boats going out, but North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift and fishermen starve to death.

Kim Do-hoon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift and fishermen starve to death.

Kim Do-hoon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The banks went into the volatility of August and September with a decent amount of exposure. They have had fairly awful third quarters. The outlook for the fourth quarter does not look much better, M&A looks great but the fixed income division has had a very hard time, we expect them to be continue to be in de-risking mode from here to year end.

Oliver Wriedt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The trend among pension funds is toward 'de-risking,' this is a recognition of the maturing of plans. There may not be as much tolerance for risk.

Tom Aaron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will be a lot of trouble for all countries and I cannot predict what will happen in this situation, they are risking their lives and nobody is able to stop this flow ... without shooting.

Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These actions could provoke a further escalation of the conflict and lead to the loss of more innocent lives, increasing the flow of refugees and risking a confrontation with the anti-ISIS (Islamic State) coalition operating in Syria.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So we think of bringing human intelligence and combining it with computer algorithms, so we took only the good part of each to really make the best robot for disasters where we can actually use robots instead of risking human life.

Sangbae Kim

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You've got a player who's been in your organization for seven years, who you valued, who you are trading clearly to bring back an important asset, and the fact that he's out there risking injury at a time when you're trying to consummate the trade is strange in itself. But for him to be that emotional and out on the field just strikes me as odd.

Gary Cohen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The likely target here is instead the HDP. By striking hard at the PKK, the Turkish government is pressuring the HDP to pick a side, either it denounces PKK to end violence, risking political blowback among its Kurdish base, or it adopts a more pro-Kurdish rhetoric, risking the ire of the Turkish public as well as the judiciary, which has a long history of banning Kurdish parties and politicians.

Erik Meyersson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is maddening and I can't believe that hobby drones are risking people's lives to get videos on YouTube, drone operators are risking lives when they fly over an emergency situation.

Ted Gaines

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A lift in the minimum wage will make a real difference for thousands of working families in every community across our state, on a day-to-day basis, that increase may be the difference between buying groceries and skipping dinner, between paying the rent and risking having the power shut off.

Representatives Speaker Tina Kotek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With the recent tragic loss of three fallen heroes, and a contagion of anti-cop rhetoric permeating, some have understandably reached the point of re-evaluating what they're risking their life for.

Jon Adler

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

One of the most special and sort of battery-charging things about this campaign was being able to go with my mother, who was in 1964, the youngest member of SNCC, at 17, going through Mississippi, registering people to vote, risking her life.

Robert Ozanne

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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