Sentence examples for grievous examples from inspiring English sources

But before the train had gone two stops, she spotted several grievous examples of what she was talking about.

As a consequence, such sentences will continue to be imposed, and only grievous examples of miscarriages of justice will pique people's conscience.

Some councils have spectacularly failed to heed her advice, and it lists some grievous examples of malpractice (some attributable to bureaucratic incompetence, others to a cynical gaming of the system).

The corridors of power he walks are no protection: in fact, one of the most grievous examples of racism in recent years came courtesy of Roberto Calderoli, a Northern League politician, who suggested last summer that then-integration minister, Cécile Kyenge, had "the features of an orangutan".

But Catholic University of America President John Garvey, at an address to the bishops intended to kick off the "Fortnight for Freedom", listed the National Labor Relations Board decision as a grievous example of the "decline in respect for religious freedom".

President Goodluck Jonathan has shown no appetite to reopen the issue, even though a parliamentary probe has uncovered a huge scam based on subsidies claimed on billions of non-existent litres of fuel.An even more grievous example is Egypt, which combines a prodigious subsidy programme for its 85m people (petrol costs less than the cheapest bottled water) with modest hydrocarbon reserves.

The most grievous example of this is the Love Canal catastrophe, where residents of Buffalo, NY, were poisoned for decades after Hooker Chemical Company surreptitiously buried 200 tons of dioxins there in the 1950s.

It documented examples of grievous wounds suffered by civilians whose skulls and limbs had been struck by metal tear gas canisters blasted from a few feet away.

"This case," Judge Marin ruled, "presents a clear example of a grievous constitutional double jeopardy violation...

Long before such examples there was a grievous, ancient border crossing: the uprooting of Spain's Jews in 1492.

"If it's a less grievous crime and there is, for example, a younger defendant involved, then in that case maybe it is disproportionate".