Sentence examples for some grievous from inspiring English sources
That ruling held that to be successful, a plaintiff must show that each member committed some grievous act, like discrimination or extortion, outside their roles as board members.
Had Rooney started, had Manchester United possessed more pace up front than Depay, who was replaced at half time by Young, they might have inflicted some grievous damage before the interval.
In his film "The Fog of War" (2003) he recast Robert S. McNamara, a much-reviled architect of the Vietnam War, as a careful thinker who made some grievous yet altogether human mistakes.
Some councils have spectacularly failed to heed her advice, and it lists some grievous examples of malpractice (some attributable to bureaucratic incompetence, others to a cynical gaming of the system).
Roberta Campbell balked at closing on an $18.75 million co-op apartment on the Upper East Side in 2009 after an inspection turned up what she felt were some grievous shortcomings: missing cooktop grates, shower enclosures and a microwave; unfinished floors; and a lack of heat, hot water, gas and air-conditioning.
Andorra haven't got any better since then, perhaps they have even got worse – a point Jimmy Greaves speculated upon with some wonderment at half-time – but there was a point to Wayne Rooney's particularly fierce rejection of those deeply unsatisfactory days when you couldn't rely on England to cross the touchline without some grievous psychological mishap.
Recently some far more grievous insults to the dead have been reported in an apparent epidemic of desecrations.
A loan from an old friend and comrade in arms did not seem to some all that grievous.
What's been lost in literature and music going back to the earliest times is greatly more grievous: some 80 plays by Aeschylus, it has been computed, and two-thirds of the output of Aristotle.
With state and federal officials unwilling to aid the victims of this fiasco, and with several people serving unconscionably long prison sentences, it has fallen to a small group of dedicated lawyers to try to right some of these grievous wrongs.
