Sentence examples for gravely alarmed from inspiring English sources
It needs, even so, to be said... A lawyer writes: All those concerned with the even-handed dispensation of justice in Britain must have been gravely alarmed by recent events affecting the royal household.
In Washington, the State Department said it was "gravely alarmed by continued allegations of the use of chlorine gas by the Syrian Regime to terrorize innocent civilians". U.S. officials expressed alarm last week at a rise in reports that the Syrian military is using chlorine as a chemical weapon against opposition-held areas.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accused Damascus of breaking its pledge to withdraw heavy weapons and troops from towns, and said he is "gravely alarmed by reports of continued violence and killing in Syria".
Joseph-Gaspard, moreover, had been desperately ill, so ill that the news sent to the Beauharnais family on the party's arrival at Brest on 12 October gravely alarmed them.
Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights and a South African, this month called attacks on foreigners in her homeland "gravely alarming".
Instead, the Administration seemed overly alarmed by goading from Republicans like John McCain who talked about "gravely serious breaches of our national security" and wanted not just any old investigation but a special prosecutor and treated this as a matter of pride.
Instead, the Administration seemed overly alarmed by goading from Republicans like John McCain — who talked about "gravely serious breaches of our national security" and wanted not just any old investigation but a special prosecutor — and treated this as a matter of pride.
NEW DELHI — Rahul Verma's son was born gravely ill with digestive problems, but over years of visits to the boy's endocrinologist, Mr. Verma saw the doctor grow increasingly alarmed about a different problem, one threatening healthy children.
On Aug. 2, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said she was "very alarmed" that Saudi authorities jailed award-winning human rights activist Samar Badawi, and the next day, her department said it was "gravely concerned" about Badawi and scores of other activists recently placed behind bars.
