at (one's) own peril

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at (one's) own peril

Done with the foreknowledge or forewarning that there is implied danger, especially of loss of life, which one must accept as one's own responsibility. Those who skydive do so at their own peril.

(do something) at your (own) ˈperil

(often used as a warning) at the risk of serious danger: People who go climbing in winter do so at their own peril. ♢ You go in Mike’s car at your peril. He’s a terrible driver.

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Summary: The more we're out of our element the more we are put in contact with a truth we often ignore at our own peril: We aren't in control as much as we think...

Travel more often, it is worth the spend

Holidays don't just turn up like an unexpected rash: they are a normal annual occurrence, which we fail to plan for at our own peril.

Time for adland to take a pitstop

Yes, Boss, we are, unfortunately, ignoring the words in your song at our own peril.

We [Don't] Take Care of Our Own

It is those faces the faces of the innocent that we forget at our own peril.

The Eichmann Trial At Fifty

"But if history has taught us one thing it is this: we ignore British farming at our own peril. Our survival has relied upon it before, and will have to rely upon it again."

'Ignore farming and risk going hungry' FARM & COUNTRY

We heard, from political, media and business leaders, as well as an internationally recognized expert on regional collaboration, that if Southeast Michigan waits any longer to truly work together, we do so at our own peril. The community is hungry for regional collaboration.

Regional collaboration: adjusting to the realities of worldwide competition

These questions, and others, are largely absent from the current debate, and we ignore them at our own peril.

The true cost of "cheap" labor: the costs associated with uncontrolled immigration and flooding the U.S. job market with foreign, low-wage laborers far outweigh any savings to be gained

The world really is just one village, Garrett states, and our tolerance of disease in any place is at our own peril. Only through the establishment of effective public health infrastructure within all countries can this globalized disaster be stopped.

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Georgetown Law Professor, David Cole, cogently argues that we ignore the implications of such policies at our own peril.

Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism

Unfortunately, there is a new danger lurking around the corner, the presence of which we are ignoring at our own peril. That of Islam.

From Maria Stukel. (Letters to the Editor)

White some segments of society with always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril.

US Plans for "Weather Wars" in 25 Years

SSPCA spokeswoman Doreen Graham said: "Every serial killer in the UK this century started as an animal abuser and we ignore that fact at our own peril.

ANIMALS WILL HELP COPS CATCH PSYCHOS

If we do, it's at our own peril. Basically, if we keep doing dumb, short-sighted, nationalistic things, rather than be thinking what's best for the whole planet and thinking long-term, then we're going to become just as extinct as the dodo.

TED TURNER: Billionaire, Media Mogul ... and Environmentalist

There's a kind of inescapable link in the real world, Hindus and Buddhists seem to say, that we ignore at our own peril. In much of traditional Christianity we've managed to quiet that troublesome emphasis by stressing the idea of individual salvation over everything else and looking at the unity concept as an interesting metaphor, or worse, as a command to act as though we were all one.