Sentence examples for exceptionally grave from inspiring English sources

would apparently expose US citizens to exceptionally grave danger".

It's true that black-on-black violence is an exceptionally grave problem.

Even so, Mr. Freeh said of the suspected damage, "We believe it was exceptionally grave".

The government defines information as top secret if its disclosure could cause "exceptionally grave damage to the national security".

Last week, Panetta filed an affidavit opposing the disclosure, which he said "could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security".

Judge Peter Rook told them they committed "exceptionally grave crimes" against the girls and said that the "depravity" they showed was extreme.

Macdonald told the Guardian: "Some of the offences that have been committed are exceptionally serious and they require grave punishment, and the sentencing guidelines cater for this.

The man on the phone from Bombay was exceptionally polite, almost grave.

Under that doctrine, a state may intervene exceptionally in circumstances of grave humanitarian emergency in order to save an entire population whose very survival is threatened.

The unexpected grave sites made for an exceptionally exciting year for Bryan's program, known as Hopkins in Egypt.

Christopher Reid's Nonsense (Faber £12.99) was, as usual with this exceptionally gifted poet, a reliable source of pleasure – grave, deft, subtle, oblique, surprising, touching.