The simple existence of such a court would give serious pause to any tyrant who tortured his country's citizens or who invaded the territory of another nation.
And the idea of concentrating such epochal yet amorphous power in the hands of a college student must give the insiders of the movie industry, as of any industry, long and serious pause — a pause long enough to cost the film, its director, and its star their deserved awards.
Her examination of the strength, strategy and sheer staying power of the fraternity in light of these increasingly dangerous and life-threatening circumstances on American campuses should give any parent with a college-bound child serious pause.
Yet the risks of another American intervention in Iraq, this country's third war in a quarter century, also give serious pause.
These responses would not only give Miss Manners serious pause, they overlook a valuable opportunity to teach skills in addressing, and placing in proper context, the kernels of truth embedded in comments such as these.
But somehow I don't think a hack involving a tube sock and a cheese grater will cause me to give serious pause to my life, making me ponder how on earth I survived 41 years on this planet by combing my hair with (are you ready for this?) an actual comb.
These are proud and intimidating motifs, designed to catch the eye of a club's adversaries and give them serious pause for thought.
WHILE I respect efforts by the New York Police Department and the Department of Education to keep my two school-age children safe, and I applaud the decline in school violence, the recent announcement about a random metal-detector scanning program gives me serious pause.
Donor nations were already tired after Haiti, but there is an antipathy toward Pakistan that should give its government serious pause.
As a popular governor of the ultimate swing state, Kasich gave some Democrats serious pause as they contemplated the prospect of him becoming the GOP presidential nominee.
