Sentence examples for grave reverse from inspiring English sources

THE murder of the Libyan rebels' defence minister, Abdel Fatah Younis, on July 28th was a grave reverse in their campaign to oust Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his regime in Tripoli.

The difficult situation in the west and the grave reverses suffered by the royal house accelerated the weakening of the Macedonian kingdom.

But the panel also supported some of Landis's claims that the laboratory analyzing the tests made errors, though none grave enough to reverse the findings.

It had held a contest in which "ultimate Yankee fans" competed for a chance to visit the Babe's grave and ask him to "reverse the reverse curse" against the Yankees (which, in plain English, would translate as "restore the curse against the Boston Red Sox").

Cliff Schoenberg, a lawyer for Mr. Ferguson, said that "we can only hope that the district court judge or the court of appeals will reverse this grave miscarriage of justice".

a veteran combat pilot herself, to pass a law and reverse this "grave" injustice.

To combat this, SAWP recommended that the industry focus on secondhand smoke, for "[u]ntil society believes that smoking does not harm the health of nearby nonsmokers, the industry will continue to run grave risks of further reverses" (underlining in original) [ 75].

Even so, there's no escaping the sense that while the stakes are grave, the odds are long in reversing a crisis that threatens to destabilize the nation and destroy its social fabric.

Each time -- to reverse the saying -- the grave dances on him.

If house prices were now to go into reverse, this could have far graver consequences than did the fall in stockmarkets.

Brimir and Hulda realize that controlling nature for the benefit of a few has imposed a grave cost on the many, and they set out to reverse the harm wrought by Goodday.