Sentence examples for grave lack of from inspiring English sources

There was also a grave lack of understanding and cooperation at crucial moments (as with Burgoyne and Howe in 1777).

José Natividad González Parás, governor of Nuevo León, bemoans a "grave lack of attention on the part of the American authorities, who have been occupied elsewhere".

I played basketball, compensating with quickness for a grave lack of height, and after a close and raucous game one Saturday night a teacher came through the departing crowd, stopped me on my way to the locker room, and said his name was Mr. Haviland, and that he was the coach of Deerfield lacrosse.

In Iraq the situation has badly deteriorated; there is a grave lack of security.

As a global health researcher, I think this reveals a grave lack of understanding of the nuances and complexity of this national security issue.

While Newtown ignited a firestorm of partisan rhetoric on gun laws, the deeper and far less debatable reality it revealed is America's grave lack of mental health care.

Over the last 10 years natural resource devolution became buried in the grave of lack of transparency, democracy and accountability.

Hopeless or grave reality situations, lack of talent or ability (usually regarded as 'inhibition'), lack of an adequate philosophy of life, and almost any chronic physical illness may be brought to psychoanalysis for cure".

For what it's worth, the "reform" of applying the logic of capitalism to college sports, and paying players on the basis of their economic value, would deepen the incentive to cast aside players who have little value.The other more grave issue is lack of accountability at the top.

Alexander Graham Bell would be rolling in his grave at my lack of telephonic etiquette.

Volunteers have expressed grave concern at the lack of official provision for the unaccompanied children in the upheaval.