1.  Given his perilous position in the polls, Lazio had the most to gain.

2.  Grisham is left in the perilous position of arguing that the ends justify the means.

3.  In dropping five of their last seven games, the Yankees have drifted into another perilous position.

4.  Kim needed one more out to put the Yankees in a perilous position Wednesday night.

5.  Linguists issued fresh warnings about the perilous position of the thousands of languages spoken mainly by adults but increasingly rarely by their children and grandchildren.

6.  Pettitte is an intense pitcher whose frustration increases whenever he walks batters and puts himself in perilous positions.

7.  The incident with a cabdriver placed him in a perilous position with Steinbrenner, even though no charges are expected to be filed and an out-of-court settlement is probable.

8.  The Tar Heels were pushing and prodding and doing just what they needed to keep putting the Spartans in perilous positions.

9.  They had argued that they would be put in a perilous position if their main competitor also owned their primary supplier.

10.  True, but by the time it had to, the offense had put San Francisco in a perilous position.