Today, as the world faces an economic crisis that some believe is as grave as that of the Thirties, Roosevelt's record in office is scanned and weighed by modern politicians, to discover whether his example has anything to teach them about how to climb back from the pit.
When Secretary Powell served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he made it plain that he opposed the use of American military power in circumstances even as grave as the war of in Bosnia.
If the trend continued, Wernberg said, the kelp forests could retract to the southern tip of the state, with environmental and economic consequences as grave as the loss of the Great Barrier Reef.
But there they were, 25,000 people representing the business aviation industry along with the extensive worldwide trade media gathered for the annual National Business Aviation Association convention, looking as grave as an assembly of undertakers who had just checked their 401 k)s.
Nearby in Georgia is Fort Benning (a military reservation); south of the city is Fort Mitchell National Cemetery, which has archaeological sites as well as graves of military veterans.
This contains the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide), which is noted for its old-fashioned red farmhouses and the ancient megalithic structures known as "graves of giants".
Near the stadium is the birthplace of baseball player Babe Ruth, preserved as a shrine and museum, as well as the grave of another Baltimore native, writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Richard Mabey describes White's reaction to the "Priory saga" as "grave disapproval of the monks' sensuality and ... general delinquency".
For serious infractions, such as grave breaches of international humanitarian and human rights laws, Signatories should report such offences to the relevant authorities".
And, truly, in Hudson, Ohio, in the nineteen-fifties, a prison camp like this one in the fastness of northern Siberia would have seemed as remote from us as the grave of the Titanic at the bottom of the sea.
