Sentence examples for gravest step from inspiring English sources

"Initiating a war is the gravest step any nation can take.

Impeaching a popularly elected president is a grave step.

This is a grave step that attests to the possibility of renewed terror attacks...

Only rarely does the House take the grave step of expelling someone, a sanction that requires a two-thirds vote.

Currently, he said there was not enough support among institutions and industry to proceed with such a grave step.

Imagine him saying that the graver step of internment would not be taken, at least until these other measures had been tried out.

The assassination of the once-relatively obscure Fatah leader Mr. Obaiyat, whom the army blamed particularly for leading nocturnal shooting on Gilo, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem, was regarded as a grave step by Israeli commentators.

Catherine Bithell, of Unite, said: "It's a grave step, and they're doing it because they've been left with no alternative by Ineos management, who seem to be hell-bent on closing down a viable, affordable and well-funded final salary scheme.

To criminalize command decisions in a theater of complex combat operations is a grave step indeed.

Graves stepped on the ice for warm-ups at 6 30 last night, and he was promptly applauded by several hundred Rangers fans who had gathered in the stands near the tunnel leading to the San Jose dressing room.

The very act of "tapping in" is like being handed a shovel to dig your own grave, before stepping directly into it and thanking TfL for the opportunity, but would they mind just nailing it shut from the outside, please?