Sentence examples for grievous event from inspiring English sources

The most hopeful way to look at this grievous event — and it's a stretch — is that this election and the years to follow will be a test of the strength, or the fragility, of American institutions.

His law partner, Arthur Jordan Charneyy), hopes that this grievous event can soften the rectitude Alison has displayed over the years in refusing to name collaborators or make emotional pleas to the parole board for her release.

It's inconceivable that anyone could live through such a grievous event — even from afar — or to return to a greatly altered city and country and not be changed lastingly by it.

Losing a child or experiencing a terminated pregnancy is a major and grievous event, which may lead to a lot of emotions.

A Meditating Monkey, floating in the margins of the previous book, becomes for Barry a mantra-in-pictures, an agent of serenity in the face of grievous events: Iraq, Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina and the sudden deaths of friends.

It all boils down to one grievous issue.

Transmission congestion management became a grievous issue with the increase of competitiveness in the power systems.

Given this grievous outcome, novel, effective treatments are urgently needed for this disease.

According to him, it is this blind dishonesty that is responsible not only for my own unhappiness but also for grievous world events like the Holocaust, which is invoked three times -- and presumably, the recent terrorist attacks, though they don't get wedged in here at all.

Plus, strikingly, in their joint declaration Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and Pope Francis prayed especially "for Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, which have suffered most grievous due to recent events" -- the very three countries that are the focus of the May 7 "Pledge of Solidarity and Call to Action".

Many in the West have been making some grievous miscalculations in framing these events.