If the oil does reach Louisiana, the costs will be grave.
After that it will be too late and the consequences will be grave.
The fax warned, "Release the prisoners or the consequences will be grave".
If Jordan doesn't receive more international help, there will be grave consequences for that country, its neighbors and the world.
Metaphysics is important: if it turns out that reality contains only the kinds of things that hard science recognizes, the implications will be grave for what we value in human experience.
If cycling is pushed back into the margins of that future, rather than promoted, along with efficient mass public transit and safe, pleasant pedestrianism, as a key part of that future, the consequences will be grave and grim.
We don't know how the situation will play out, and there will be grave challenges.
Both the categories of dirty hands and moral dilemma involve agonising choice in which there will be grave moral loss either way.
"If funding is not secured now, the consequences will be grave," it added.
"If we do not act now, the consequence will be grave".
