We assume grave risks when we distance ourselves from our natural roots, roots which in the past always made us feel part of the whole.
Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury, later said: "If it be necessary to assume a grave responsibility, I dare say men will be willing to assume such a responsibility".
"It may occur in spite of our precautions; and if it does and if it be necessary to assume a grave responsibility, I dare say men will be found willing to assume such a responsibility".
Joaquín Navarro-Valls, the papal spokesman, said: "Whoever decides that all peaceful means available under international law are exhausted assumes a grave responsibility before God, his own conscience and history".
Brigadier-General Meiklejohn, commander of the Malakand forces, was informed by Deane that "matters had assumed a very grave aspect" and that there were armed Pashtuns gathering nearby.
Absent any context, an observer would have looked upon these proceedings and assumed that some grave matter of state was being discussed.
Sarria's annual pilgrimage to Norton's grave assumed new meaning as the LGBTQ community began participating to mourn their dead.
"In 1900, everybody assumed that masturbation had grave physical consequences; that didn't make it true".
The impact on the nervy Liberal Democrats would be immense, and would further fuel the already hyperbolic reporting of the allegations surrounding Lord Rennard – allegations that a casual observer might (wrongly) assume are as grave as those associated with Jimmy Savile.
I was there on Aug. 9, 1974, when Gerald Ford assumed the presidency during the gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.
