Sentence examples for a grave step from inspiring English sources

Impeaching a popularly elected president is a grave step.

This is a grave step that attests to the possibility of renewed terror attacks...

Currently, he said there was not enough support among institutions and industry to proceed with such a grave step.

The assassination of the once-relatively obscure Fatah leader Mr. Obaiyat, whom the army blamed particularly for leading nocturnal shooting on Gilo, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem, was regarded as a grave step by Israeli commentators.

Catherine Bithell, of Unite, said: "It's a grave step, and they're doing it because they've been left with no alternative by Ineos management, who seem to be hell-bent on closing down a viable, affordable and well-funded final salary scheme.

To criminalize command decisions in a theater of complex combat operations is a grave step indeed.

Only rarely does the House take the grave step of expelling someone, a sanction that requires a two-thirds vote.

"Initiating a war is the gravest step any nation can take.

Acts of Congress, like the health-care law, are presumed to be constitutional, and it is — or should be — a grave and unusual step for unelected, unaccountable, life-tenured judges to overrule the work of the democratically elected branches of government.

"[W]e should first acknowledge what a grave and momentous step it is for a former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States to ask for immunity from prosecution," he said.

Imagine him saying that the graver step of internment would not be taken, at least until these other measures had been tried out.