Its decision to create a new undergraduate college in a joint venture with the National University of Singapore touched off one of the strongest controversies in the 20-year presidency of Richard C. Levin, who retired this summer as Yale's president — a year after a nonbinding faculty resolution expressed grave reservations about the project.
He has expressed "grave reservations" about a White House proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
Along with many who have worked to build a strong NATO, we harbor grave reservations about the pending expansion and the direction it points.
In a concurring opinion, Burger voiced "grave reservations" about upholding the Toolson decision, but still wrote, "Courts are not the forum in which this tangled web ought to be unsnarled".
"I told Mr. Livingston that there were quite a few members who expressed grave reservations about his running for Speaker," Mr. Wamp said, putting the number at about a dozen.
Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger of Evansville, Ind., said in an editorial in his diocesan newspaper, published on June 7, that he would have "grave reservations" about a policy that amounted to "painting every failure with the same brush".
But even if someone could persuade me that the ends (detecting and punishing serious crime) justify the means (a further considerable incursion into the civil liberties of law abiding citizens), and that it was feasible to compile and maintain such a database, I would have grave reservations for another reason.
Last week top American military leaders expressed grave reservations about such a deployment.
A tempting sales pitch, yet when my editor suggested a first-person report, I had grave reservations.
Yet King Abdullah of Jordan was convinced after visiting Downing Street that Mr. Blair has grave reservations about such a war.
The incentives concern explains why Nineteenth century utilitarian reformers in Britain, such as Edwin Chadwick, had grave reservations about enacting a social minimum.
