Sentence examples for graver responsibility from inspiring English sources

There is no graver responsibility for any prime minister than the commitment of British forces to violent action, especially when that action is politically (and possibly even legally) controversial.

Similarly, because their opinions reach such a wide audience, the British media have a graver responsibility than most and a greater opportunity to promote the peace of nations, the integral development of peoples and the spread of authentic human rights.

Re "No More Silent Summers," by Anthony Tommasini (Critic's Notebook, June 29): The New York Philharmonic is a great public trust — sometimes even a grave responsibility, as in the orchestra's response to Sept. 11 a decade ago — one I take seriously, and one of the biggest joys of my life.

Instead, he stressed that the Lehman board had a "grave responsibility," a fiduciary duty to shareholders.

The UK bears grave responsibility for what is happening in Northern Ireland.

What grave responsibility, what terrible guilt do they carry around which explains the reprisals against them?

The Iranian revolution was a consequence of neocolonialist machinations in the country, for which Britain bore grave responsibility.

Those of us who are not in immediate peril have a grave responsibility to those who are.

Commander Conor O'Neill, the captain of HMS Montrose, is a bright young naval officer with a grave responsibility.

And the gravest responsibility of the custodian of hope is knowing when it's time to stop hoping.

"The international community, and in particular the Security Council, has a grave responsibility to act to bring the desperate suffering of the Syrian people to an end," he said.