Sentence examples for or graver from inspiring English sources
Chief among those were the burin, or graver, this being a strong, narrow-bladed flint able to scrape narrow incisions into bone, which made possible the manufacture of needles, hooks, and projectiles.
WASHINGTON — Long before he announced his presidential run this year, Newt Gingrich had become the most prominent American politician to embrace an alarming premise: that Shariah, or Islamic law, poses a threat to the United States as grave as or graver than terrorism.
The most significant tool was the burin, or graver, a stout, narrow-bladed flint able to scrape narrow grooves in bone; two parallel grooves, for example, would allow a sliver of bone to be detached as stock for a needle, pin, awl, or other small object.
Whether whimsical or grave, however, Rogers Groups all have much in common.
Nearby are the two big tumuli, or grave mounds, of Dowth and Knowth.
There are no scare tactics that end in the coffins or graves.
A suspect would also be allowed to meet a defense lawyer without permission from the police, except in cases involving national security, terrorism or grave allegations of bribery.
Under the existing UN system, there is no recognition of a right of the international community to intervene to protect against genocide or grave human-rights abuses.
Stupefyingly, the new Vatican document also links raping children with ordaining women as priests, deeming both "graviora delicta," or grave offenses.
Rather, it found that the government had erred in using a procedure meant for emergency threats to safety or grave damage to the environment.
