jeopardy

Preposition: as

• result: Assurances were sought that no services should be put in jeopardy as a result of NGC's proposed activities.

Converse of object

• avoid: But we need to go further if we are to avoid the double jeopardy of worsening social problems and escalating tax bills.
• double: Recent examples of its work vary from land registration to offenses of fraud, and from housing law to double jeopardy.
• face: The Government faces double jeopardy: spending increases that are unbalancing the public finances, yet barely improving services.

Adjective modifier

• double: Any risk of double jeopardy is excluded in either case.
• serious: Anything else, he feels, would place science in serious jeopardy.
• extreme: AB: You need to define the statement ' extreme jeopardy ' used here.
• real: The whole Hamas government project is now in real jeopardy.
• great: The person renting is in a far greater jeopardy than the buyer of many years.
• further: The reclamation project is predicted to put Jakarta in further jeopardy.

Modifies a noun

• rule: In Scotland the former ruling relating to double jeopardy rule still applies.
• law: We heard from lawyer Julian Young about what the scrapping of the double jeopardy law could mean.
• principle: The right to trial by jury and the double jeopardy principle have both been eroded by an executive that seeks targets and conviction rates.
• man: Double jeopardy man is given life... news.bbc.co.uk BBC NEWS | Politics.. .
• case: I listened to the 10 o clock news and was really pleased to hear about the first successful double jeopardy case.

Preposition: by

• failure: We carry sufficient spares and replacements to ensure that your business is not placed in jeopardy by the failure of computer equipment.