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The Nigerian authorities said the floodgates had to be opened because water levels have become dangerously high.

It has been a year of living dangerously.

It was as Harry dodged another Bludger, which went spinning dangerously past his head, that it happened.

He releases the ball. It swings back, dangerously close to his chin, but does not rise any higher. The audience laughs and cheers.

I've stayed late at work and missed the last bus home, so I've had to fork out for a taxi when I'm dangerously close to payday.

One by one, Katarn defeated them, though in his aggressive strikes, he came dangerously close to succumbing to the dark side of the Force.

France's mainstream parties should be careful. At a time of crisis, populist sloganeering can prove dangerously effective.

Winding along at the bottom of the gorge is a dangerously narrow wheel-road, occupying the bed of a former torrent.

But Epictetus gave up too many things, and I had been quick to observe that nothing was more dangerously easy for me than mere renunciation.

Traditionally, the federal government has nothing to do with that; it treats it as a local matter, and a dangerously controversial one.

he also fought ruthlessly to expand the power of the executive branch, which he thought had been dangerously restricted since Watergate.

And the DPJ verges dangerously close to believing that this matters less than the redistribution of wealth.

The pastor and his assistant then steered the boat through the dangerously large waves, eventually bringing all the children to safety.

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan.

The Spanish economy may be dangerously close to meltdown but one area at least - prostitution - appears to be doing very nicely.

In a social situation, I wouldn't just say, 'You're dangerously ill' but I'd try to elicit information and encourage them to see a doctor.

When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.

For the moment, the system does not look dangerously undercapitalised.

In Syria and Iran, among other places, social media users are lulled into a dangerously false sense of security.

Growing pools of dangerously radioactive water and deposits of plutonium have been inhibiting access to important parts of the plant.

More importantly, you and your son are in a dangerously abusive relationship, and you must get out immediately.

It was a dangerously foolish area to which they pinned down a major portion of US military power.

The German people in the early thirties were in a mood that made them dangerously susceptible to the Fascist infection.

It proved the commencement of delirium: Mr Kenneth, as soon as he saw her, pronounced her dangerously ill; she had a fever.

They have been replaced by a central bank official as fears grew that the bank, which is dangerously short of cash, could fail.

Becomes dangerously ill with a bleeding ulcer and is hospitalized but recovers to work with Truman Capote on the musical House of Flowers .

The burgeoning hedge fund and private equity industries are both a cause and a symptom of a dangerously lopsided America.

As a source of good writing, the country benefits from a highly educated elite and a dangerously dislocated society.

Bad debts would otherwise become dangerously large and China needs much more efficient allocation of capital if it is to keep growing.

The Wall represented an artificially divided Germany and a dangerously bifurcated world.

Yet it has also led to a dangerously low birth-rate and an unusually large aging population.

Yet Greece recently protested that eight Turkish fighter jets had flown dangerously close to a Rhodes-bound Greek passenger aircraft.

The case of the Countess Olenska had stirred up old settled convictions and set them drifting dangerously through his mind.

the pharaoh is no longer beyond criticism , and ramesses ' failure to take kadesh could dangerously undermine his position.

It is avoided by locomotive monitor to scrap locomotive early and to waste, or to scrap locomotive late and dangerously.

If European governments do not use their new breathing space to control spending, financial markets will get dangerously restless again.

In any event, China's reflexes belong to a bygone era, a fact that will become dangerously obvious if Japan seeks its own deterrent.

There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously.

Most of us think nothing of juggling a couple of chores at once, whether at home or in the office or, most dangerously, on the road.

For years, Israel had said it could hardly be expected to make concessions in such a dangerously undemocratic region.

Charity official Georg Willeit says one infant was dangerously dehydrated, but all of the children are well now.

I had not noticed that expectations were dangerously high. I had supposed they could hardly be lower.

Despite the bacon and fried onion rings, the burger wasn't all that greasy and didn't feel dangerously unhealthy.

In 2001 a handyman named Vincent Lowe went into a cage to repair a dangerously worn-down gate.

And a number of major institutions are dangerously close to the edge.

Beijing has its own, genuine frustrations with the dangerously unpredictable Kim Jong-il and his country's nuclear weapons programme.

Payne experiments with increasing the ship's height to fit in enough cabins and balconies, but this makes the ship dangerously unstable.

Recent research bears out the broad brushstrokes of their claim but reveals that women can be equally, if less dangerously, belligerent.

Even if one is found, the sectarian wounds that seemed to be healing have been dangerously reopened.

"I thought you could take both, " Wynn says, disclosing a dangerously inaccurate assumption.

but it was a lifelong treatment, carrying the ever-present risk of causing blood-sugar levels to fall dangerously low.

A decade ago, today's witness, Microsoft, came dangerously close to quashing competition throughout the high-tech economy.

Still, to regard a druid as merely a healer is a dangerously simplistic assumption that has led to the defeat of many an unwary foe.

As The Economist went to press, the authorities seemed to be back in charge but the situation was dangerously fluid.

Today, racism is again rising dangerously in Europe and America, with an outburst of racist laws and demagogy from the state.

'I'm sorry to tell you, 'she continued, 'that your mother is dangerously ill.

What begins as vague desire can skate dangerously close to the edge of classical Lamarckism when it reaches individual learning.

Anyone jumping in less than 18 months ahead of election day in early November is thought to be cutting things dangerously fine.

The motor of Jack's boat was dangerously hot, but he decided to shoot the works and try to win the race.

Now a third stage is at hand, one of dangerously outsized expectations.

The latest spat between China and Vietnam looks dangerously close to escalating. China needs to take the lead in finding a solution.

if the mainland's growth balloon does burst, the shock would be dangerously destabilising both at home and abroad.

she had been breathing Garuda's atmosphere for a dangerously long time.

Tens of thousands of refugees from Libya have already reached Europe by crossing the Mediterranean on dangerously overloaded boats.

Chinese pride and boosterism veer dangerously close to nationalism. Healthy criticism is seen as unpatriotic .

For girls, the prediction is just over one-in-four, down from earlier forecasts that almost half would be dangerously overweight.

Officials say some houses are too far away from fire hydrants and that the old city is dangerously overcrowded.

Experts found callers' stress levels and blood pressure rise dangerously high as they become frustrated with the delay in getting through.

I fear the world, and especially a large part of Western opinion, has become dangerously misguided about this threat.

There are also plenty of skeptics, of course, who say that the Indian stock market may be getting dangerously frothy.

In Listing 11, the primary key logic is dangerously simple; I can boost my confidence with a few tests, though.

IT WAS a hard-eyed, unemotional get-together. They had never met face-to-face, but once sparred dangerously.

He was dangerously close to becoming the player the fans liked the least.

Not knowing the pitfalls, outside organizations have severally reported the Gini index of China to be rising dangerously.

However, given the extreme optimism among investment advisers, the odds of a short-term correction are now dangerously high.

Breathtakingly beautiful, but like so many other low-lying countries around the world, the Maldives is dangerously vulnerable.

Unequal treatment of siblings in an estate plan can be dangerously divisive.

After all, investor sentiment is still fragile, at best, and some institutions are still operating with dangerously low capital ratios.

The death of James and the destruction of Jerusalem crippled the Jesus Movement and placed it dangerously close to extinction.

At current growth rates, that would leave the economy dangerously close to recession.

For two years the price of oil has been dangerously volatile, seemingly defying the accepted rules of economics.

All this is dangerously short-sighted, for Iran may yet do all of these things.

The Bretton Woods founders had believed that floating rates would be dangerously unstable.

If China's lending role were to increase, the paper warned, the government could be left "dangerously unchallenged" .

The big question for executives is just how radical they should be in driving change at a dangerously unstable time for their companies.

The figures are further evidence that young women are more likely to become dangerously overweight than men.

Voyager was getting dangerously close to the end of the runway.

Nutrition, previously profiled as a main pillar of primary health care, has been notoriously and dangerously neglected in recent years.

To boycott the festival which has been the home for all diverse voices to be presented on the screen is dangerously backward thinking.

This uncontrolled, systemic inflammatory response leads to dangerously low blood pressure and, ultimately, organ failure.

This uncontrolled, systemic inflammatory response leads to dangerously low blood pressure and, ultimately, organ failure.

And higher currents will heat the lines, which could then sag dangerously close to trees and structures.

The boat tipped dangerously.

However, I find I concentrate much better and am more prolific with a deadline dangerously close.

He also says the Pentagon needs to take a closer look at mergers to make sure the US industrial base is not being dangerously eroded.

Sane I don't think a sane person would drive as dangerously as he did.

if it's not excellent, it's dangerously deluded to pretend that it is.

Hiro's eyes flashed dangerously as he raised his gun, his finger on the trigger.

In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously.

The path is in dangerously poor condition. Underneath it are holes filled with unsanitary water.

A world in which that were not true would be one in which a dangerously narrow consensus had taken hold.

With China at the vanguard, Asia as a whole stands dangerously exposed to external shock.

something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously.

To claim attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is genetic is to dangerously simplify the nature of the condition.

Government debt is dangerously wobbly in Italy and Spain, yet political approval of the deal has hit trouble in Germany and Finland.

Many Americans, including a dangerously large number of Democrats, still have their doubts about Mr Obama.

Signs that the Reagan revolution had drifted dangerously have been clear over the past decade.

The Iranian government has dangerously upped the nuclear ante in diplomacy and still faces resilient protesters at home.

More dangerously, as Americans become more economically despondent, China will naturally emerge as scapegoat number one.

For Franzen's characters, too much freedom is an empty, dangerously entropic thing.

All those cute tops that seemed so huge a few months ago are now quite snug and dangerously short.

The stance is echoed by technical experts in Cairo, who claim that Egypt's share of the water in the region is already dangerously small.

Unfortunately, as the number of wolves has decreased drastically in the world, Garou blood has become dangerously impure.

That dangerously blurs the distinction between diplomats and spies and is best left to the spies.

One of my favorite films is Peter Weir's The Year Of Living Dangerously, made in 1982, and starring a young Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver.

On the whole, though, those big ideas are either mad or could have dangerously unpredictable consequences.

Deeper economic integration, they say, will dangerously narrow Taiwan's options as China moves towards the endgame of unification.

It thus gave Judaism a religious dimension whose mystical approaches to God were viewed by some as dangerously pantheistic and heretical.

GDI is excavating and it's getting dangerously close to something they MUST NOT discover.

Life becomes dangerously insecure when new technologies, innovations, and ideas increase the scope of defection.

Emergency workers worked to regain control of the dangerously overheated nuclear complex yesterday, using all resources available to them.

But constitutional fundamentalism is a dangerously simple-minded approach to government.

The Royal College of Midwives has warned that it is dangerously short-staffed when it comes to delivering little Britons.

He unravels the most carefully crafted falsification in modern history--Albert Speer's memoirs dangerously polluted history.

A British naval blockade had greatly reduced food shipments to Germany. Now, Britain itself faced dangerously low supplies of food.

Boga was brave and trusting enough of Kenobi's command to perform daring leaps and close with Grievous' dangerously spiked conveyance.

Only one child out of 16 in the town tested positive for having dangerously high levels of lead.

At very low tides they scramble dangerously round the exposed, rusting bones.

A property bubble blew up, and Ireland became dangerously dependent on the revenues that flowed from it.

Unfortunately, no amount of diversion can hide the message from the new numbers: America's budget is on a dangerously unsustainable course.

Her body had dehydrated dangerously with the heat.

The shocked Diamond Shark Khans found their Galaxies completely surrounded and dangerously low on ammunition.

More dangerously for Groupon, big online firms have begun to enter the fray.

The human body can absorb only about one quart of water per hour, max, and after that, the brain can swell dangerously, says Dr.

Her husband has been accused of having a dangerously wandering eye, but Pink chooses to look the other way by slandering other people.

The combination can dangerously thin the blood, putting patients at risk of uncontrolled bleeding which can lead to a stroke.

Politics remain dangerously polarised at the start of an election year.

To be sure, the financial industry is dangerously powerful.

Murrah Federal Building; soon the FBI too will halt its search of the dangerously unstable structure.

The bear is taking an enormous risk. Walruses are big, and dangerously powerful. But on the polar bear's side is the element of surprise.

The work of repairing our crumbling roads and bridges, and our dangerously deficient dams and levees.

Forest fires swept across central Greece, dangerously near Athens, before being brought under control.

Politics in Thailand has become dangerously polarised, ideologically and geographically.

Rebuffing offers of foreign aid does nothing to tackle a dangerously rising budget deficit.

Scientists say they have found physical evidence of brain differences which may drive "thrill-seekers" to act impulsively or dangerously.

In recent days, Italy's borrowing costs have soared dangerously and the prime ministers of both Italy and Greece have resigned.

One side regards "sex worker" as a dangerously obfuscatory euphemism.

Public Citizen, a watchdog group, has found that some drug information sheets are dangerously wrong or misleading.

Old bits of dangerously frayed rope hung from some of the more accessible greenery.

But takeovers are not an option for the biggest banks, which are already considered dangerously large.

Tensions between cyclists and motorists here have become dangerously combative.

"Of the leading indicators we follow, there's not a single one that's pointing dangerously lower. "

A flood of bank lending threatens a future surge in bad loans, while markets for shares and property look dangerously frothy.

But to attribute the woes of euro-zone government-bond markets solely to evil speculators is dangerously misguided.

In the emergency room, his blood pressure was dangerously low and his heart was beating fast.

Notably, Robert Shiller of Yale gave an early warning that America's housing market was dangerously overvalued.

Beneath its amiable surface, Jordan hosts many dangerously competing tensions.

Mr Cameron talks of a country that has been living dangerously beyond its means.

"With the buttery crunch of a sophisticated shortbread, these are dangerously addictive, " says Apartment Therapy.

America is dangerously uninformed about other country's history, language and cultures.

But its composition may be: food is becoming more expensive dangerously fast.

A bad index will lead monetary policymakers dangerously astray.

In an interview, Mr. Lache adds that Chrysler is also running dangerously low on funds.

How can open society protect itself against dangerously deceptive arguments?

In a crisis of deficient demand, however, they are dangerously contractionary.

"Prices are dangerously close to the levels of 2007-08, " said Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist at the FAO.

All three started with dangerously stretched household balance-sheets.

What investors once deemed safe levels of capital and liquidity they now consider dangerously thin.

Defibrillators shock hearts that are beating chaotically and dangerously back into normal rhythms.

His colleagues, he believed, were intruding dangerously into fiscal policy.

If the bubble bursts, land prices could plummet, leaving the banks dangerously exposed.

those watching earthquake formation have long said these quakes are dangerously near.

Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, Fallen is a page turning thriller and the ultimate love story.

CO is a dangerously poisonous gas that is emitted into the air in relatively large quantities by the automobile engine.

Yet we are told that the feeling of unhappiness is "dangerously nationalistic" and "poisoning" .

In my heart, my desire was to live more dangerously. I would.

Can the blood grow dangerously accustomed to a blood thinner?

Irek Ismeren, the son of a fellow Emperor's Hand, was corrupted and reformed as Lord Nyax, a dangerously unstable Dark Jedi.

Your assignment for this week is to live dangerously.

Keep away from it, the fire is sparking dangerously.

A stronger currency would also help to lift some pressure off an economy running at dangerously high steam.

Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA.

Is the lead of a bullet dangerously non-degradable?

Without Brown, Blair was dangerously exposed, especially after Iraq.

Basel III allows the equity of banks to be as low as 3 per cent of their total, non-risk-weighted assets, which is dangerously low.

It would drive voters and decision-makers dangerously far apart.

That reactor and two others at the plant are dangerously overheating and authorities are racing to prevent meltdown.

You are dangerously low on disk space. It is recommended that you free up some disk space and restart Imaging.

As a result, a complex and unstable system veered dangerously out of control.

Done artfully and wisely, living dangerously engages our intellect, advances society, and even makes us happier.

Still, countries, like people, behave dangerously when their mood turns dark.

If so, his administration will find itself dangerously behind the curve.

"Buy-out groups are living dangerously, " said Steven Bavaria, head of S&P's bank loan ratings business.

The evening after his visit, the laboratory found that Mr. Siewert's potassium levels were dangerously high.

Normally cassowaries are very shy but when disturbed can lash out dangerously with their powerful legs.

As so often, the two sides' positions have become dangerously entrenched.

In my heart, my desire was to live more dangerously.

And yes, Britain's economy is dangerously dependent on revenues from the financial sector.

Anti-Western sentiment is riding high and Syrians are dangerously polarised.

Some banks are becoming dangerously addicted to the medicine the ECB has been administering.

Almost all observers say the Copenhagen talks are dangerously stalled.

A circuit that protects a computer system from dangerously high voltage surges.

Dangerously high levels of omega-6 fatty acids are due to the overuse of vegetable oils in modern diets.

He was talking all the way, dangerously holding an umbrella while riding the bike.

But, researchers say the tests being sold are dangerously inaccurate.

Into this mix, dangerously and unpredictably, comes North Korea.

The world is getting dangerously out of balance.

Now, 500 years later, excessive fishing has reduced the number of fish to dangerously low.

The powers of the inhuman and the efficacy of hatreds mutate dangerously.

Millions of people continue to suffer from drinking water that contains dangerously high levels of arsenic.

Hunter S. Thompson called his version of living dangerously "edge work. "

The medical report revealed that Dan's cholesterol level is dangerously high.

In relationships, they could be dangerously jealous. They are also passionate and caring.

The first six or seven dishes seemed to fill the table, with plates dangerously balanced one on top of another.

Synergy is a dangerously overused word in business, but sometimes it fits.

The gas from the water heater is unable to escape from the room and accumulates to dangerously high levels.

More stimulus now would add to an already dangerously high deficit.

I hope its competitors have learned the lesson: a limited language means a dangerously limited world.

That allowed temperatures to rise dangerously.

Few aspects of civil society can devolve more quickly and more dangerously into personal civil war than the dissolution of a marriage.

There are inevitable echoes of Open Water, as they start blaming each other and nature gets dangerously closer.

Please don't. It's dangerously hot and the bottled water is non to reliable for a baby's stomach.

Every time he knelt the rockets would slide dangerously forward.

The achievement of China Petrochemical Industry is that the climax happens frequently very dangerously too in this violent fluctuation.

All in all, a China that can look intimidatingly powerful from the outside can equally seem dangerously brittle when examined up close.

The other driver accused Wilson of driving dangerously.

Several bolts sheared, causing the floor to SAG dangerously.

The Bush administration was offensively and dangerously careless on all those points.

It has become, I'm afraid, a dangerously corrupted medium.

Inflation looks dangerously high.

In February 2008, a 1000-ft. -long stretch of dangerously eroded land was found near state-owned floodgates north of the lake.

(Brit. informal, dated)move very fast and dangerously.

When your blood sugar dips dangerously low, you need carbs quickly.

If Mr Dalio thinks his underlings never bad-mouth him behind his back, he is dangerously deluded.

After a decade under the leadership of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft is dangerously absent where it counts.

More dangerously still, even Spanish spreads have reached 270 basis points (see chart).

As currently envisaged, however, it's a dangerously dumb idea.

More dangerously still, the politics of exams are upside down.

It's arguable the UN process has become dangerously cut adrift from the science of climate change.

Lehman's fear of insolvency was dangerously assuaged.

Their ship was sailing dangerously in the tempestuous sea.

My daughter dangerously injured, not a sou!

She was sent home when she became dangerously ill.

Almost half of women of child-bearing age are overweight or obese and more than 15 per cent of pregnant women are dangerously overweight.

Yet it is also hard to shake the feeling that Massa remains dangerously consumed by racing.

The tiger population is dangerously small.

The move is a bold bid by Europe's leaders to corral an 18-month-old debt crisis that is veering dangerously out of control.

Knock that nail in, it's sticking out dangerously.

In 2005, the country released 590 million tons of the greenhouse gases blamed for dangerously warming the globe.

Some activists want to pull back, viewing the situation as a dangerously unarticulated barrage of anger.