Gravely
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The report reflects a growing consensus that “terrorists could obtain nuclear materials and use them,” concluding gravely: “If current approaches toward eliminating the threat are not replaced with a sense of urgency and resolve, the question will become not if, but when, and on what scale, the first act of nuclear terrorism occurs.”
Otherwise, the status quo can
gravely
threaten Pakistan’s – and South Asia’s – future.
After two years, America’s alliances have been
gravely
weakened, even more so than after former President George W. Bush’s disastrous wars.
In addition, the court proceedings would have had the further, even more essential, virtue of underlining how the toleration of lies can
gravely
harm a democracy.
Trump has
gravely
weakened the nation’s economy, while Biden has shown over his life that he cares about people’s chances for prosperity and rewarding lives – for achieving the American Dream.
By focusing only on the 1% risk, Cheney (and many others) distracted the public’s attention from the much greater likelihood that the Iraq War lacked justification and that it would
gravely
destabilize the Middle East and global politics.
On this great challenge, US President Donald Trump’s administration has
gravely
miscalculated.
First, there is the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes us anxious because we, or people we love, anywhere in the world, might soon become
gravely
ill and even die.
The US sanctions
gravely
exacerbated previous economic mismanagement, contributing to a catastrophic fall in oil production, hyperinflation, economic collapse (output is down by half since 2016), hunger, and rising mortality.
The two old men, Bonnemort and Mouqe, were
gravely
shaking their heads.
He swung it gravely, then handed it to Charles, who sank to his knees in the earth and threw in handfuls of it, crying, "Adieu!"
Julien thought that the young man seemed irritated; with his right hand he was
gravely
giving benedictions in the direction of the mirror.
He rose
gravely
as six o'clock struck and mentioned a chapter of the new theology of Liguori, which he had to learn by heart in order to repeat it next day to M. Chelan.
'"If his willingness is all that matters," said Giovannone gravely, producing my agreement from his pocket, "_carta canta_!
Julien confessed to him
gravely
that he was deeply in love with her.
'Will you listen to me?'Don Diego Bustos inquired
gravely.
'I see that you are in love ...Very well, then,' Don Diego Bustos went on gravely, 'she has not the choleric constitution that impels one to vengeance.
'That is the whole question,' he went on gravely, 'and it is from this that you may derive some hope.
I have caught you at the same game, Father, play-acting like any missionary ...''Your tender age,' the Jansenist went or gravely, 'the interesting appearance with which Providence has blessed you, the motive itself of your crime, which remains inexplicable, the heroic measures of which Mademoiselle de La Mole is unsparing on your behalf, everything, in short, including the astonishing affection that your victim shows for you, all these have combined to make you the hero of the young women of Besancon.
"Let me tell you," replied the captain, gravely, "a lieutenant colonelcy in the Guards is a very pretty thing."
"The disguise was used by me, Major Dunwoodie," replied the English officer, gravely, "to enable me to visit my friends, without incurring the danger of becoming a prisoner of war.""But you did not wear it, until you saw the troop of Lawton approaching?"
"I should surely die if I could not," observed the captain,
gravely.
It might be hard for a man to get a wife at all in such a predicary - don't you think it would, Miss Peyton?""I seldom trouble myself with such things," said the lady
gravely.
"Colonel Wellmere," said the operator, gravely, "is in what I call a state of free will, madam.
He who unhorsed you?""No man ever unhorsed me, Dr. Sitgreaves," said the dragoon,
gravely.
He answered gravely, and with some reserve,-"The commander in chief had left his quarters."
"I certainly dare not," replied the subaltern,
gravely
shaking his head, "unless you will take the responsibility of an order; but Major Dunwoodie will be back again in two hours, and we can carry the tidings through the hills before daylight; so that by spreading patrols across, from one river to the other, and offering a reward to the country people, their escape will yet be impossible, unless they can join the party that is said to be out on the Hudson."
At length the general raised his own hat, and bowed
gravely
to all around him.
The extraordinary vehemence of the stranger's manner had passed away as suddenly as it was exhibited, but he listened to this speech with deep interest, while Dunwoodie replied, a little gravely, - "Come, come, Tom, no jokes about my good aunt, I beg; she is kindness itself, and I have heard it whispered that her youth was not altogether happy."
"It's a bad sign," said Aunt Polly,
gravely.
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