But rather than salvage the situation with a hoik into touch, he made a perilous situation terminally bad.

And the pressure on them will only grow the longer this perilous situation goes on.

If, aboard a large passenger ferry lying at anchor off-shore, a detainee decided to start a fire as a protest, a very perilous situation would ensue.

We got out of this perilous situation by selling spirits in the shops for no gross margin, turning stock into cash within 14 days, while buying on 60 days credit.

Analysts attributed yesterday's rout of banking shares to intensified fears about the euro sovereign debt crisis and uncertainty about politicians' willingness to take control of the increasingly perilous situation.