vindictive, perilous, ‘perilous pitfalls’, imperiously, imperium, protectorates and principalities

Heavy borrowing from China drove the Republic of the Congo into a financial mess, with the country paying out nearly double what it borrowed in the end.

When crude oil prices fell sharply in 2014, the Republic of the Congo ended up paying more for its oil-for-funds loan with Chinese and other lenders than the deal was ...


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How Chinese loans can become ‘perilous pitfalls’ for Africa


emblem of imperious corporate leadership.


Just published: front page of the Financial Times, international edition, Tuesday 3 March https://on.ft.com/2vAu4fk

Vestager Gets Vindictive A10 She vows to punish U.S. companies that resist her tax policy.

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories

For philosophy this is an old story. Its history consists of one after another of its protectorates and principalities—mathematics, physics, biology, psychology, latterly even logic and epistemology—breaking away to become independent, self-governing special sciences. For anthropology, this contraction of imperium under separatist pressure is more recent and less orderly, but it is no less severe.

Pain Mounts for Europe Banks

Europe's banks, burdened by concerns about exposure to ailing Greece, took a perilous turn Monday despite efforts by the biggest of them to calm panicked investors.

Schiff, Calling Trump ‘Wrathful and Vindictive,’ Sees Tweet as a Threat

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

In an extraordinary back-and-forth between a president and a congressman, President Trump warned that Representative Adam Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager, “has not paid the price, yet.”



Europe went 'beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness'

"Willoughby?"

"He is vindictive!"

"Our Willoughby?"

"That is not your opinion, ladies. It is firmly mine. Time has taught it me. So, if you and I are at such variance, how can we live together? It is an impossibility."

They looked at Willoughby. He nodded imperiously.

perilous
(pĕr'ə-ləs)
adj.
Full of or involving peril; dangerous.
[形]((主に文))〈生命が〉危険な；〈言動・計画などが〉危険の多い；冒険的な.
perilous

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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Pronunciation: /ˈpɛrɪləs/

adjective

1Full of danger or risk:a perilous journey south

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1.1Exposed to imminent risk of disaster or ruin:the economy is in a perilous state

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Derivatives

perilousness

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛrɪləsnəs/

noun

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Origin

Middle English: from Old French perillous, from Latin periculosus, from periculum 'danger' (seeperil).

vindicative
a.
[Cf. F. vindicatif. Cf. Vindictive.]
1. Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.
2. Revengeful; vindictive. [Obs.]

Vindicative persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.

Bacon.
-- Vin·di·ca·tive·ness, n.

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vindicate

[動](他)((形式))

1 〈人の〉非難［汚名, 嫌疑, 疑惑］を晴らす；〈名誉を〉回復する

The decision vindicated his honor.
その判決で彼の名誉は回復された.

2 〈事・行為が〉正しいことを示す；…を弁護［支持］する, の正しさを立証する

We are vindicated in our belief.
私たちの考えが見当ちがいでなかったことが立証された.

3 〈権利・主義・自由を〉擁護する, 守る；〈権利を〉主張［要求］する

vindicate one's liberty
自らの自由を守る

vindicate one's right to ...
…に対する権利を主張する.

4 《ローマ法・大陸法》…の所有権を（訴訟により）回収する；…の所有権を主張する.

［ラテン語vindicātus （vindex要求者＋-ATE¹）］



imperiously
adj.

1. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing. See synonyms at dictatorial.
2. Urgent; pressing.
3. Obsolete. Regal; imperial.

[From Latin imperiōsus, from imperium, imperium. See empire.]

[形]

1 〈人・態度などが〉おうへいな, 尊大な, 傲慢(ごうまん)な

an imperious glance
人を見下したような目つき.

2 〈要求・命令などが〉緊急の；回避できない, 不可欠の

an imperious command
緊急の命令.

imperiously im·pe'ri·ous·ly adv.
imperiousness im·pe'ri·ous·ness n.

imperium

Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɪərɪəm/

noun

[mass noun]

• absolute power.

Origin:

mid 17th century: from Latin, 'command, authority, empire'; related to imperare 'to command'