dangerous situation

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meaningsofdangerousandsituation

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dangerous
adjective
uk
/ˈdeɪn.dʒər.əs/us
/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ.əs/
A dangerous person, animal, thing, or activity could ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofdangerousandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is handled by a method based on restrictions that prevent actions being incorporated into the operating procedure to cause adangeroussituation.
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When a person is in a stressful anddangeroussituation, the hippocampal "cool" system may not be optimal for responding to threat.
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The human being's natural limits in dealing with complexity make this adangeroussituationfull of sticky intellectual tar pits.
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An alreadydangeroussituationreached the critical stage as the climate was doing strange things.
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The onset of adangeroussituationgave rise to panic.
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It is accepted that there is a need to remove these workers from a potentiallydangeroussituationso that such an innovative system could prove popular with highway agencies.
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Health authorities have to face up to this potentiallydangeroussituation.
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This would give rise to a highlydangeroussituation.
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That will be a reallydangeroussituationin spite - and maybe because - of other political movements around these countries.
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Can we take it that this will not be allowed to drift into an extremelydangeroussituation?
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That constitutes, in my view, a most serious anddangeroussituation.
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Here is a verydangeroussituationthat needs more than watching.
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If that is not so, we shall get into a difficult anddangeroussituation.
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It is adangeroussituationwhich is developing, because it leads to a number of unsatisfactory positions.
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How long is this potentiallydangeroussituationgoing to continue?
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Unless something is added to subsection (2), adangeroussituationmay be left for the fishing interests.
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I have done so because we are in a verydangeroussituation.
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I concede that at the present time there is adangeroussituationthere.
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