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.
States leveraging their cash balance to purchase private property has the potential to quickly metastasize into an ever-more hazardous situation as power and control over enormous influential sectors become consolidated into the hands of actors as a means of reaching political and military goals at the peril of the West.
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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.
Almost entirely missed, however, was an opportunity to raise awareness of what is developing into the most significant legal phenomenon of the new century - one that we ignore at our own peril, moreover, as it constitutes a very threatening form of asymmetric warfare being waged against the United States.
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.
In the absence of Senate due-diligence andtransparency about LOST, particularly those Senators up for reelection nextyear flout this pivotal part of the electorate at their 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.
Presidents enjoy a great deal of freedom in policymaking, but they ignore the views of their most reliable supporters 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.
But first, an exhibit called Archivist of the "Yellow Peril" is open at New York University.
"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.
"In that notion lies the seed for the future destruction of American democracy, and we ignore that warning at our peril, " Glenn said.
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.
What this means is that - as was the case in May 1967, when the combined Arab armies gathered with the express purpose of wiping the Jewish state off the map - today again, Israel is alone at its hour of greatest peril.
If there's anything 38 years of the drug war has taught us, we forget it at our peril, they say... because drugs always come back.
But Treasury's accommodation to SCF demonstrates that we are on the same trajectory - the one ordained and demanded by the promoters of Shariah, one to which we serially accommodate ourselves at our extreme peril.
If you were in Pakistan, there might have been a late-night knock at your door and by now you would be in jail, like some of the other honest journalists who were bold enough to assert the primacy of reason over official bulletins, knowing they did so at their own 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).
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