Sentence examples for gravely increased from inspiring English sources

The U.S. State Department noted, in its 2015 "Trafficking in Persons" report, that the vulnerability of women and children to trafficking had "gravely increased" in the past year, and that security and law-enforcement officials, as well as criminal gangs, were involved in sexual slavery.

It is shown that the compressive strength of cement-mixed gravely soil increases considerably with compacted dry density.

Nowadays, there is full recognition of the fact that inequality affects growth and increased inequalitymaims growth gravely.

If Barbaro recovers and lives to enjoy the green pastures of a stud farm, it will be a result of advances in veterinary medicine that have increased the odds of survival for gravely injured racehorses, veterinarians said yesterday.

It adds: "The consequences, gravely damaging to the health and wellbeing of children, include increased difficulty in providing 24/7 paediatric cover, increasing need for locum and agency staff, and a reduction in innovation and medical advance".

The clinical failure of antimicrobial drugs that were previously effective in controlling infectious disease is a tragedy of increasing magnitude that gravely affects human health.

Where it is available, sodium-bentonite powder should be mixed with sand or gravely sand; high silt content is likely to increase the risk of shrinkage.

"They are both gravely concerned by the attack that took place in Damascus on Wednesday and the increasing signs that this was a significant chemical weapons attack carried out by the Syrian regime against its own people," the spokesperson said.

Higher numbers of gravely ill patients surviving the acute phase of myocardial infarction, albeit often with severe damage to the left ventricle suffered despite the medical intervention, mean there are increasing numbers of patients who may potentially develop symptoms of heart failure, mainly due to impaired left ventricular contractility.

In other words, the increase of the PC1 value indicates that the sediment becomes finer, better sorted, and less gravely (Fig. 10); this means a selective decrease in coarser materials from grain-size distribution (Fig. 10).

His friend nodded gravely.