But they failed to inflict grave damage.
But what is left has suffered grave damage.
"He's done grave damage to Germany's reputation.
The Tories' Europhobia, which we regretted last time, could now do grave damage.
The River Cafe is poised to reopen soon, after suffering grave damage last year in Hurricane Sandy.
Furious military and State Department officials spoke of grave damage to national security and danger to people named in the documents.
The government defines information as top secret if its disclosure could cause "exceptionally grave damage to the national security".
Not honoring the pledge would cause grave damage to the Republican brand, he has said, likening it to a Coke can with a rat head in the bottom.
As a contractor, Snowden was given access to information that, according to the Times, "would cause 'exceptionally grave damage' to national security if disclosed to the public".
China could not challenge America without doing grave damage to the economic growth that is the Communist Party's source of domestic legitimacy.
