Sentence examples for scope and gravity from inspiring English sources
Preparations for the World Cup have distracted attention from the scope and gravity of what most commentators agree is the biggest scandal ever to hit Italian football.
An investigation into the suicide of a Roman Catholic priest last week at the St . Luke Institutein Silver Spring, Md., found deficiencies in care "of such scope and gravity as to pose a serious and immediate threat to patient safety," a Maryland health official said yesterday.
The scope and gravity of the political and economic problems meant that they could be dealt with only from a firm basis of political power, and there was no power that the German merchants could use except that of their own cities.
Each individual stage has been upgraded so much that they all have the scope and gravity of main stages.
With its connotations of scope and gravity, the phrase resonates — not unlike "extra heavy duty" or "bigger and better than ever".
But the frequency of public expressions of concern by high-level government officials and the stridency of their warnings bear little relation to the actual scope and gravity of the threat.
And while I would not have the United States go to war solely to protect civilians, for the reasons noted above, I can imagine a humanitarian crisis or a war crime whose scope or gravity would require us to act, whether in the name of regional stability or to make an example of the perpetrator.
Ecstasy and gravity, then.
Magistrate Spero for one clearly does not understand the scope or gravity of the request he just granted.
Have dignity and gravity.
