Sentence examples for of utmost gravity from inspiring English sources

"This is a crime of utmost gravity," he said.

The head of the Iraq war inquiry said the UK's decision to attack and occupy a sovereign state for the first time since the second world war was a decision of "utmost gravity".

We are engulfed today in a concatenation of crises of the utmost gravity, as most people recognize even if they have no idea what to do.

It would have a "chilling" effect in a case involving allegations of unlawful conduct of the "utmost gravity" against state agents, lawyers for the claimants have told the court.

Delivering the decision at the special court for Sierra Leone, Judge Richard Lussick said Taylor's crimes were of the "utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality".

"This is a case of the utmost gravity, the horrific features of which are rarely heard in any court," Judge Christopher Critchlow said before sentencing Miles this week, according to the New York Daily News.

He could be a highly comic writer - and an equally comic speaker, with an impeccable sense of timing - even when the issues were of the utmost gravity.

Later in Washington, an official of the State Department described the situation as "a matter of the utmost gravity".

London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "An allegation that a serving police officer posed as a member of the public whilst fabricating evidence is a matter of the utmost gravity.

Prime Minister Tony Blair said tonight that British submarines had fired cruise missiles into Afghanistan as part of the opening salvos of the American-led war on terrorism, labeling the events "a moment of the utmost gravity for the world".

These are allegations of the utmost gravity.