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In abandoning their deference to the transcendant, late-liberal societies followed a perilious course ... they have gambled on securing majority suport for a narrowly materialist and sensual sphere of public communications.

Archive 2009-08-01 Burke's Corner 2009

In abandoning their deference to the transcendant, late-liberal societies followed a perilious course ... they have gambled on securing majority suport for a narrowly materialist and sensual sphere of public communications.

New Labour and the coarsened public realm Burke's Corner 2009

I fear (and rightly so) we Americans are on a perilious journey in losing our sovereignty.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

But this he ought not to regret as it saved him from the danger of the perilious Novbr.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, [28] February 1796, "Thursday is my Red Letter Day..." 1796

Jan Karski, a Polish born Catholic who was tortured before he escaped the Gestapo, witnessed the perilious condition of the Jews as a member of the Polish underground and tried to get the West to recognize it.

Reader - MassLive.com Kathryn M. Roy 2010

The UK examples given (Woking, London) are actually more responses to climate change rather than peak oil, and although they are visionary responses to reducing the carbon impacts of energy generation, as the authors point out, some of them, especially London's transport measures, are also good 'peak-proofing' measures (it has been argued by some that Woking's shift to gas fired CHP, although clearly preferable from a climate perspective, does little to reduce vulnerability given the perilious state of the UK's gas supplies).

Transition Culture 2008

The UK examples given (Woking, London) are actually more responses to climate change rather than peak oil, and although they are visionary responses to reducing the carbon impacts of energy generation, as the authors point out, some of them, especially London's transport measures, are also good 'peak-proofing' measures (it has been argued by some that Woking's shift to gas fired CHP, although clearly preferable from a climate perspective, does little to reduce vulnerability given the perilious state of the UK's gas supplies).

Transition Culture 2008