Sentence examples for grave affairs from inspiring English sources

I sat on COID selection committees in the 1960s and they were grave affairs in which the relative merits of British-made teapots and toasters were deliberated.

So from the start it was a grave affair".

To that extent, it captures the intuition that nonconsensual state-breaking, like revolution, is a grave affair requiring a weighty justification.

Yemen's war is a complicated and grave affair.

But, in a country where the previous President's lies about consensual adulterous relations were considered ground for impeachment, truthtelling about the gravest affair of state — the waging of war — must stand as a paramount value.

In a sprawling, federal country such as Brazil, tinkering with tax is a grave constitutional affair.

For this grave state of affairs, blame Makiko Tanaka, Japan's foreign minister.

Even more satisfyingly, given that the pair already clashed in last year's Standing in Another Man's Grave, OCD internal affairs cop Fox and the haphazard functional alcoholic Rebus are eventually thrown together as an odd couple double act.

This grave state of affairs continued after Kim succeeded his father on his death in 1994.

Up to this writing, Anthony Eden, is the only major political figure who has sounded a note of grave urgency on international affairs.. View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick By Ceridwen Dovey.

"Taking into consideration the difficult circumstances the country is going through, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave the post of president of the republic and has tasked the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to manage the state's affairs," Mr. Suleiman, grave and ashen, said in a brief televised statement.