Leaf felt bound to pursue his present course, however perilous.
This is an extremely perilous course you plot.
It's as if they're fighting and saying, 'Why is the administration taking us on such a perilous course.'
India has embarked on a perilous course with the installation of its first potentially durable Hindu nationalist Government.
It was an intentional exhortation to make this supposedly mild diplomat strongly warn the French of their perilous course.
And lots of pressure on the non-runners to think about late entries, as perilous a course as that obviously is.
But he also understood that a schism now would only add to an already perilous course.
The captain took a perilous course through the ice, ignoring the warnings of his first officer.
And domestic-violence cases are left to their own perilous courses.
Like anyone setting off on a perilous course, I was sure it wouldn't happen to me.