imperilment

They have their work cut out for them, since the catalogue of imperilment is long.

An intricate, scholarly, painful survey of the oceans and their imperilment by humanity.

The roster of imperilment would grow, many biologists say, if marine invertebrates not yet considered for the red list were to be added to it.

The Kochs' sense of imperilment is somewhat puzzling.

The imperilment of his ship ... even his civilization ... was it from outside or from within?

Jonathon learns of his wife's plan of hiding their son from imperilment, but sadly never gets to see him or attain the knowledge of his location.

What I could not grant away in imperilment of charter," said Radulfus with deliberation, "I can give freely as a gift from this house.

Nor did Southview employ "all feasible and reasonable means of preventing or lessening the destruction and imperilment of the deer habitat," the board found.

IUCN Red List categories, evaluating the imperilment of threatened species (least concern through to extinct)

The IUCN Red List uses the term endangered species as a specific category of imperilment, rather than as a general term.

What is truly galling about the imperilment of the Twins is that the one franchise that would benefit most would be the Milwaukee Brewers, to the south and east.

The categories do not simply reflect the imperilment of individual species, but also consider the environmental impacts of how and where they are fished, such as through bycatch or ocean bottom trawlers.

He was polite, reasonable; he did not shout about incest or urge the people of Videssos either to rise against their Avtokrator or risk the imperilment of their souls.

There's a faint sense of imperilment (a hint of wells and throats gone dry) in the city's prosperity - as there is in cities lying on geological fault lines or on hurricane-visited coastlines.

Isolated from other settled regions and surrounded on all sides by nomadic Indian tribes, New Mexicans tended to a communal sense of imperilment and the placement of security above all other concerns.

Fewer than a quarter of the tree species are under conservation protection, said the conservation union, the World Conservation Monitoring Center and the World Wildlife Fund, who jointly announced the list of imperilment.

The court upheld the board's conclusion that "the environmental and recreational loss to the public from the destruction and imperilment of the habitat is not outweighed by economic, social, cultural, recreational or other benefit to the public from the project."

Its growth, and Mr. Wattamwar's imperilment, reflect a broader trend: Since 1990, community pharmacies have fallen from 64 to 50 percent of all pharmacies statewide, while large chains have grown from 22 percent to 36 percent.

The good news is that although only seven species have recovered enough to be removed from the domestic roster of imperilment, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service says that nearly 40 percent of the listed domestic species are either stable or improving.

In 1989, Serbian media began to speak of "the alleged imperilment of the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina", as tensions between Serbs and Bosnian Muslims and Croats increased over Serbs' support for Milošević.

"Possibly the most salient feature in human development and individuation - the extent of total helplessness and the absolute dependence on others - implies a fundamental condition of anxiety or imperilment that makes seeking and reaching out for presumably protective objects imperative," Mr. Muensterberger writes.

NatureServe ranks indicate the imperilment of species or ecological communities as natural occurrences, ignoring individuals or populations in captivity or cultivation, and also ignoring non-native occurrences established through human intervention beyond the species' natural range (as, for example, with many invasive species).