Sentence examples for committed a grave violation from inspiring English sources

"If any government was complicit in the abduction of Leonid Razvozzhayev, that government committed a grave violation of Mr. Razvozzhayev's right under the 1951 Refugee Convention to be protected from involuntary return," said Mark Hetfield, the interim president of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a nonprofit group whose lawyers in Ukraine were preparing Mr. Razvozzhayev's asylum application.

Mr Churchill has committed a grave faux-pas by congratulating the Indian troops.

[President] Morsi committed a grave mistake.

"Navalny... committed a grave crime," said Judge Blinov as he delivered the sentence.

But golf had committed a grave sin against Karma.

"Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina and Samutsevich committed hooliganism - in other words, a grave violation of public order," she said.

According to one Palestinian named Wassim "Settlements are contrary to international law; they constitute a grave violation to the fourth Geneva Convention, meaning that these are actually war crimes being committed.

The Vatican called the event a grave violation of church law and of religious freedom.

The UNCA said it "considers this a grave violation of freedom of the press".

The EU said the test was a "grave violation" of UN resolutions.

Moscow has warned any intervention without a UN mandate would be "a grave violation of international law".