Yet an excessive focus on poor government oversight often means that the much graver problem of disintegrating civic morality is neglected.
The northerners have much graver problems.
Today's charges pose a much graver set of legal problems for Mr. Giordano, who has been in federal custody since his arrest July 26 on charges that he used a phone or computer to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, than those presented by federal investigators.
The word "racism" invites dispute because it is simultaneously a much graver accusation, and a less specific one.
Yes, because playing tennis with your wife is a much graver proposition than winning Majors.
That is a much graver worry for Mr Osborne than when precisely he should get the budgetary squeeze under way.
But now Israel has committed a much graver diplomatic blunder.
However, to those having developed into organ failures, as seen in our patients, a review of the literature suggests a much graver prognosis.
A graver problem is fiscal.
Beyond his blunders, Bloomberg has also had to struggle with a graver problem.
According to The Report Card on Maternal Mortality 2008 published by Unicef, "The avoidable loss of each woman who dies from pregnancy or birth-related causes is disheartening enough in itself, but the problem is much graver and more widespread than the death statistics show.
