1.   India embarks Thursday on a perilous course with the planned installation of its first potentially durable Hindu nationalist government.

2.   The angels, obviously, are your basic guardian angels, one for a possibly dangerous canoe trip, one for a certainly perilous course of disease.

3.   The ship, the Sea Mist, had been blown into Cork harbour by a storm on Saturday as it chartered a perilous course between Venezuela and the Baltic.

4.   The ship was blown into harbour here by a storm on Saturday as it chartered a perilous course between Venezuela and the Baltic.