Sentence examples for grave and lasting from inspiring English sources

We don't yet know how grave and lasting the consequences of the present world crisis will be, but they certainly mark the end of the sort of free-market capitalism that captured the world and its governments in the years since Margaret Thatcher and President Reagan.

Some have supported James Tobin's (1996) proposal for a tax on international currency exchanges on the grounds that capital markets are currently structured in a way that makes significant shocks and financial crises more frequent and more painful than they need be, often causing grave and lasting harm to poorer and more vulnerable economies.

Yet they're now unfolding in plain view and both threatening to do grave and lasting damage to the GOP.

"The speed with which Ana's relatively minor criminal infraction triggered her disappearance into immigration detention, without any ability to communicate or coordinate with (child protective services), would have grave and lasting effects on the children's dependency proceedings that would unfold over the next months and eventually years," Rabin wrote.

"Children who become involved with armed forces are at grave risk of physical injury and lasting psychological harm, and they are deprived of a most basic right - to be children, to have a childhood," Lake said.

The first of these was the bridge over the River Waal at Nijmegen, the second the bridge over the River Maas at Grave, and the last was the bridge over the River Rhine at Arnhem.

Hundreds of thousands of people annually flock to France and Belgium to see the battlefields, war graves, memorials and last resting places of the servicemen and women who fell during the two world wars.

"It lasts and lasts.

The Bush administration's repudiation of the International Criminal Court is a grave disappointment with lasting, harmful implications.

#"The damage inflicted by the aggressor ... must be lasting, grave, and certain".

This hanging grave usually lasts for years, until the ropes rot and the coffin falls to the ground.