Sentence examples for grievous violations from inspiring English sources

The International Criminal Court is rightly investigating the crimes committed against civilians and the grievous violations of international law.

The international criminal court is rightly investigating the crimes committed against civilians and the grievous violations of international law.

I wish you had contrasted this with Israel's attitude to the far more grievous violations of international law going on in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

We ask the OPCW [Organisation for the Prohibition Of Chemical Weapons] to fulfil its mandate and launch an immediate investigation into this attack and hold perpetrators responsible for these grievous violations to international law.

These are grievous violations committed by a federal agency against its own overseers, in order to further interfere with an investigation into its own previous wrongdoing.

This was considered a grievous violation of turf.

Hate speech tends to be prosecuted as a grievous violation, but arguments that can have far more hateful consequences tend to be protected as a freedom.

And the inhumane and illegal treatment of detainees could make a return in a future administration unless the Supreme Court sends a firm message that ordering torture is a grievous violation of fundamental rights.

The fight in New Jersey to legalize same-sex marriage cleared a crucial hurdle on Monday night, and it is now time for the rest of the state's lawmakers to end a grievous violation of this nation's promise of equal rights.

Today, in the wake of the killing of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, some Americans believe that such an act is a grievous violation of our Constitution, of our judicial system, of our moral compass.

When the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) exposed this regiment's grievous violation of the 1861 chaplain law, Allen resigned rather than face the humiliation of losing his commission.