"We have grave concerns over the current inability of the I.R.S. to enforce the federal tax laws applicable to churches," a group of 13 ministers in Ohio wrote in a letter to the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, in July.
Nevertheless, the report's observations are sure to be used by Congressional critics and others who have expressed grave concerns about Panama's inability to secure its border with Colombia less than six months after the United States withdrew all its troops.
The government's gravest failure was its shocking inability to provide adequate oversight.
He discovered that her restless spirit could be appeased in such a manner, so the townsfolk compensated for the woman's inability to consummate beyond the grave by placing sexually potent phallic statues in view of the shore.
Its emptiness stands for the empty graves of the unrecovered dead, and for the inability of any manmade construction to represent grief that cannot be assuaged.
Inability to turn our words into deeds when it is our turn to take action would be unforgiveable and a grave historical error.
Outside Washington, there was alarm at the seeming inability of the President and Congress to cooperate; it was front-page news in wartime London, where headlines said, "Roosevelt faces grave crisis on home front" and "Democrat rages at FDR".
Jacob's inability to integrate into a community that treats him with indifference, and his scalding resentment at his descent from cultivated teacher to penurious labourer, digging the graves of people he holds in contempt, results in tragedy.
