Sentence examples for gravest consequence from inspiring English sources

In the Wine.com sting, the gravest consequence was that several retailers were asked to stop their interstate shipments.

Our incapacity to influence the social and economic circumstances of our own lives ought, it might be argued, to be a matter of the gravest consequence.

Haylee spent 11 weeks in intensive care as doctors fought the ravages of her hemolytic uremic syndrome, the gravest consequence of E. coli O157 H7 bacteria, the strain involved in the outbreak.

He had faced the ordeal of concealment, of false passports and dissimulated identity; he had risked arrest by the Gestapo as a Resistance fighter; he had visited occupied Paris during the war to see his mother--a cloak-and-dagger plot of gravest consequence (for her part, she was interrogated and blackmailed by the occupiers).

He had faced the ordeal of concealment, of false passports and dissimulated identity; he had risked arrest by the Gestapo as a Resistance fighter; he had visited occupied Paris during the war to see his mother a cloak-and-dagger plot of gravest consequence (for her part, she was interrogated and blackmailed by the occupiers).

Those who have done the least to cause the problem bear the gravest consequences".

Everything is interconnected, and it is our children -- literally our babies -- that are suffering the gravest consequences.

Most people are lucky — they learn the lesson of the shield without grave consequence.