dangerous territory

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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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territory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈter.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈter.ə.tɔːr.i/
(an area of) land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country ...
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(Definition ofdangerousandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At the same time it is adangerousterritoryin which false analogies can 'inspire the courageous to foolhardiness and the inspired to fanaticism'.
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Traditionally, this has been referred to as 'extra-musical' concerns, a term which, like the similar sounding term 'extramarital', seems to implydangerousterritory, hence its irresistibility!
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I feel that we are stepping intodangerousterritory.
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With leasehold enfranchisement, we are surely in extremelydangerousterritory.
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If we make a practice of this, we are enteringdangerousterritory.
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On the question of foreign policy, we are moving intodangerousterritory.
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But, with respect, if one goes down that road, one is enteringdangerousterritory.
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Once one starts to do that, one entersdangerousterritory.
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We are indangerousterritory, unless he is capable of substantiating both of those propositions.
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I think we are moving intodangerousterritory.
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I fear that we are moving into verydangerousterritory.
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As regards fiscal fines, we enter into desperatelydangerousterritory.
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We are already treading indangerousterritory—perhaps sub judice—because of the interrelationship of those aspects.
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To go beyond that brings us intodangerousterritory.
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That isdangerousterritoryand verges on a conspiracy of bureaucrats, bootleggers and baptists to promote legislation to further their mutual interests and powers at the taxpayers' and consumers' expense.
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We are indangerousterritory.
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If we extend the argument to rights to views and permission to cut down perfectly good trees because they interfere with somebody's view, we will be indangerousterritory.
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They know that conceding the idea of the removal of border controls in the treaty would have been trespassing ondangerousterritory.
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It is verydangerousterritorybecause it creates a situation in local authority management in which the reputation of the law is called into question.
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