Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his counterparts in Washington are holding fast to their insistence that the government stay out of rescuing another financial firm, even at the peril of another massive meltdown.
Entrepreneurs that shun this time-tested method of raising capital, because their investors might make a lot of money, do so at the peril of not achieving their stated goals, which might just include serving the very community Professor Yunus is nobly focused on: fully one half of the world's population.
The World Health Organisation says the West has ignored the diseases of the poorer nations at its peril.
And some would say that a government ignores the wellbeing of smaller companies at great peril - and would point to how Germany, with its army of smaller manufacturing businesses, is powering out or recession.
They want someone with political experience, a sure hand, knowledgeability, someone who's been around Washington at a time of peril to the country.
By definition symbols convey meaning, and people therefore tamper with them at their peril (witness the mixed emotions of race and tradition when the Confederate flag is flown in the South, or the horror when some white supremacist burns a cross or daubs a swastika).
Compelling attention wherever he went by turning out the likenesses people requested had seemingly no effect on the impersonal element at the core of his strength, the inborn modesty that was his toughness and that he later sidestepped at his peril.
So the question is how best to nurture and encourage this transformation of investors from quick-buck merchants into thoughtful stewards - and how also to persuade company boards that they ignore the wishes of their owners at their peril.
But casting aside the wisdom of our fathers comes at great peril.
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In this case, banks would leave small amounts of cash in the vaults at their peril.
Once the property is seized, the owner may file a claim, at peril of being indicted, or of incurring heavy civil litigation costs.
"A strike will happen at everyone's peril, " the NBC Universal chief told a breakfast of industry insiders last week.
"A strike will happen at everyone's peril, " the NBC Universal chief told a breakfast of industry insiders earlier this week.
Further, investors need to take note that investing in only a handful of the billionaire stocks is done so at their own peril.
Consent of the governed: European leaders forget that at their peril.
Organizations ignore data at their peril, and there will only be more of it in the future.
Politicians have long been aware that the notion chimes deeply with the British sense of self, and is meddled with at one's peril.
This reaction from the public shows Shell has serious problems in the court of public opinion, and that it ignores Arctic defenders at its peril.
But this year the rule is back, and lots of folks seem to have overlooked it at their peril.
He worried more than most about liquidity risk, the danger of cash-flows and funding drying up (which many financiers ignored at their peril in the last boom).
The World Bank rates Kenya as a low-income country and analysts like Alban Aoko of Consumer Trends say that companies ignoring the mass market do so at their own peril.
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Music is clearly the driving force, Strategy Analytics says: when audio represents 45 percent of the content on a generic platform like Dropbox, companies ignore tunes at their own peril.
The crises pile up in front of us, one after another, and we ignore them at our peril.
Because President Bush and his team have aggressively taken the war to the terrorists and their supporters, eliminating them by the thousands, uprooting their networks and showing state sponsors of terror that they risk continuing their sponsorship at their peril.
Long in financial peril thanks to a sorry, two-decade-long record of mismanagement, the institution is at last on a sound footing.
Likewise Tony Blair, faced with the only moment of high peril in his premiership, the Formula One tobacco scandal, offered himself for examination at length by John Humphrys on BBC One's On the Record.
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