Sentence examples for matters grave from inspiring English sources

They point to Indonesia's riots this May when President Suharto was overthrown as a sign of the continuing dangers, and argue that East Asia's economic slump has made matters grave.

In a world of absolute truth, in matters graver than life and death, there is no room for dissent and no room for theological doubt.

As we say, matters of grave national security.

But in the Senate, when matters turned grave, the language of debate turned legalistic.

On the outskirts of town, three men are hunched in the candlelit corner of a pine-panelled Gaststube, discussing matters of grave importance.

Yet her theory sounds like the plot of a conspiracy thriller, which is not usually true of experts' theories, especially on matters this grave.

The man who until this week was England's soccer coach has, as they say in the secret services, no "need to know" about various matters of grave and habitual concern to this column.

All have learned early that what is said and what is unsaid are matters of grave import, but no one dares shatter taboo by speaking aloud the grim specifics of what took place.

At other times he wrote about matters of grave moral importance, unfailingly denouncing authoritarian regimes whether of the left or the right.

These shortcomings are matters of grave ethical concern as they threaten the ability of patients to make informed decisions regarding their medical care.

When the defendants appealed their convictions on that and other grounds, one of three federal judges hearing the matter called the evidence of bias "a matter of grave concern".