For the French too, victory in the field served to solidify the perilous state of government at home.

I would take this further to say that academic medicine is in a perilous state.

The economy is in a perilous state and we needed some imaginative changes.

By any definition that seemed to be a precarious, if not perilous, state of events.

Although the College building was saved from the war, its walls and roof were left in a perilous state.

But that could still leave management in the hands of the same men who have managed the company into its current perilous state.

All of the military politics has done little to rescue the armed services from their perilous state.

The phone calls made from the towers, he suggests, show that however perilous the state of the world, "love is all around."

Instead of becoming safer, we could be in a more perilous state than ever.

To compound matters, China's largest export market is in a perilous state.