On the other hand, it was maintained with equal spirit that the nomination of Granger, avowedly to secure the anti-masonic vote, would offend the National Republicans andjeopardise the state as well as the electoral ticket.
He preferred to avoid the responsibility, since an opinion mightjeopardise his political interests.
He could not afford tojeopardise his reputation at the very outset of his career by any such entanglement, or by the appearance of one.
I feel sure my son will regain his health after a few months' absence, and that he will not jeopardise my happiness and his future by any further thoughts of this unfortunate girl, who in the meantime may not be here when we return.
Break it down and you bruise and jeopardise the flower of life.
What was done was done; and it would be a crime on his part to jeopardise in the smallest degree the wholesome brightness of Sandy's childhood by any rash proposals which it might be wholly beyond his power to carry out.
Was he then prepared to jeopardise the work to which he had set his hand by such a union as he was contemplating?
But--I hope, friend Hartwell, that I shall never be led to take any step that will jeopardise your good opinion of my capacity to judge what course is the right one to pursue in certain circumstances.
The time had passed when Wall Street could jeopardise the commerce of the country.
The Doctor was liberal-minded about everything, but his standards of conduct were the laws of his life that no one could jeopardise or deny.
But above all I charge you solemnly, do nothing to jeopardise your own safety; you cannot play into Hanky's hands more certainly than by risking this.
Do nothing to jeopardiseyour own safety; you can do more by perfunctory acquiescence than by open dissent.
Now he was consumed with rage in that his younger brother should show so little proper feeling as, for some silly crotchet, to jeopardise his senior's interests.
You are ready to jeopardise your own reputation in order to save that of your poets!
You'll not do anything that will jeopardise the pit or the gallery--the boxes are sure--for the rest of the week.
Never except once, under express orders from Tokio, did either Admiral Togo or Admiral Kamimura press offensive movements in such a way as to jeopardise the preventive duty with which the war plan charged them.
This will tend to jeopardise her chances of return through or near defended areas.
But to go back was to jeopardise the reputation of the Battalion.
My reason for sending him with Asi was that he should protect him in El Obeid, and the plan succeeded admirably; for Khaled was naturally anxious to do nothing which wouldjeopardise Zogal, who, of course, remained with me at Dara.
In another moment mayhap he would have forced her to follow him, to leave milor in the lurch, to jeopardise for ever every chance of safety.
Curse you for your obstinacy," retorted the duc, "you jeopardise my life and yours.
He felt happy in the reflection that he had spoken no word that would tend to jeopardise that friendship.
But for your sake, my sweet Jessamy Bride, I promise to do nothing that shall jeopardise your safety.
It was one thing to fling away her own chances of happiness; but it was another thing to jeopardise the peace of the man she married.
We have to consider her youth, and that natural love of admiration which tempts women to jeopardise their happiness and character even for the sake of an idle flirtation.
She had gone so far as almost to jeopardiseher life, and, what was more, her honour, in the siege of Magdeburg.
They reply that by declaring the assertions to be untenable we jeopardise the principles.
We say that they jeopardise the acceptance of the principles which they and we alike cordially regard as fundamental by basing them on assertions which a little investigation shows to be untenable.
How can one reconcile these facts with the view that the lord could make no alteration in the treatment of the customary land which would jeopardise the copyholders' interest?
We will see about this hereafter; all that is necessary now is to make sure that we do not jeopardise it, if we DO see a way of escape, and this assuredly exists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jeopardise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
