Sentence examples for grave measures from inspiring English sources

Monumental in scale, "Catenary (I Call to the Grave)" measures 118 inches long by 78 inches high.

On Thursday, Seoul gave the North 24 hours to agree to talks on the Kaesong Industrial Complex, warning of "grave measures" if its offer was ignored.

South Korea has issued an ultimatum to North Korea over the suspended joint industrial complex, saying that if North Korea does not agree to talks by Friday morning, the South may have to take what it calls "grave measures".

On Thursday, South Korea signaled it might remove the workers, threatening to take a "grave measure" regarding the complex if the North did not agree to talks.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, August 2 , 1952P. 52 Prime Minister has just warned the British people that new and grave measure have to be taken if the country is to ri rise above its hand to mouth existence.

Earlier Thursday, South Korea said it was giving the North until Friday to respond to its proposal for dialogue about the two countries' joint industrial park or face a "grave measure" by the South.

On Friday, North Korea's National Defense Commission, the country's highest governing agency, called the South's proposal a "trick" not worth considering and threatened its own "grave measure" if the "South's puppet clique further aggravates the situation".

It is a novel that reads like a piece of grave, measured music from the 18th century, an inward-looking story about three disappointed people — a dying man and two of his children — computing the losses in their lives and their distance from God.

South Korea gave North Korea until Friday to respond to its proposal for dialogue on a joint industrial park or face a "grave measure" on the future of the factory complex, which has been the only remaining symbol of economic cooperation between the two Koreas.

Or that Etherial Gain – One earns by measuring the Grave – Then – measuring the Sun – Sickness is always there, shielded by cover stories: in youth, a cough is mentioned; in her mid-30s, trouble with her eyes.

Some of his narrative series, like "Powerhouse Pepper," have the explosive parodic élan of a Rossini opera; others, like the unpublished "Ethan Downing" strip, are oddly grave and measured.