Sentence examples for grave state from inspiring English sources

For this grave state of affairs, blame Makiko Tanaka, Japan's foreign minister.

After May's 15-minute presentation on Wednesday, the 27 leaders instead spoke of the "grave" state of the negotiations, and agreed to up their readiness for a no-deal Brexit, sources said.

At the start of "Dublinesque," the latest novel by Enrique Vila-Matas (translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey; New Directions), Riba, an aging publisher who has recently battled alcoholism and closed down his publishing house, is invited to a literary festival in Lyon to speak on "the grave state of literary publishing in Europe".

By Joanna Kavenna Enrique VilAtMathe At the start of "Dublinesque," the latest novel by Enrique Vila-Matranslatedlated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey; New Directions), Riba, an aging publisher who has recently battled alcoholism and closed down his publishing house, is invited to a literary festival in Lyon to speak on "the grave state of literary publishing in Europe".

Reflecting the grave state of the market, Houlihan Lawrence, a family-owned real estate company dating from the 1950s, announced on Feb. 13 that it was laying off 10percentt of its employees -- although not its sales agents, who work as independent contractors.

This grave state of affairs continued after Kim succeeded his father on his death in 1994.

For Prime Minister George Papandreou, who commands a seven-member majority in Parliament, the bill represents the beginning of the end of the cradle-to-grave state compact that his father put in place as prime minister in the early 1980s.

The protest was grounded in fears that if Saudis, their closest kin in the Gulf, could be reduced to that status of a maid, so could Qataris, pampered by a cradle-to-grave state.

"The Pews would spin in their graves," states one of several case studies featured in the Philanthropy Roundtable's library, which details the liberal organizations and causes, from radical environmentalists to campaign finance reform, that are financed by the bequests of conservative capitalists.

Before Labour, the "cradle to grave" welfare state had no cradle.

The location of the tombs fits the historical description of the Desmosion Sema, or People's Grave, a state burial site for dignitaries, generals and soldiers who perished in combat.