Examples of grave

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The graves we are talking about are in the line of control.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
However, ten years after the end of the conflict, the graves are still deep and ill-feeling is still simmering beneath the surface.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In the beginning they dug graves in which to bury the dead; then they stopped when they no longer had the strength.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The narrator is avowedly one of those "graver people" who find such activities reprehensible not intrinsically but when performed by a girl; they are gender-specific.
All this seems to indicate that graves lost the function they had for such a long time: visible long-term symbols of ancestral presence.
The outright deletion of input is the gravest distortion (78.7% accuracy), as it can destroy the cohesiveness of an utterance.
To corrupt the faith, whereby the soul lives, is much graver than to counterfeit money, which supports temporal life.
There are no war graves for the thousands of refugees who died en route to a 'place of safety'.
Moreover, opportunity costs are highest when the area in question are under the gravest threat.
Parliamentarism was the gravest danger to the working class, being no more than an anaesthetic.
The town council's gravest error had been to situate the destructor in a valley.
When several crimes appear to emerge from the facts of a problem, it is best to start your answer with the gravest crime that seems clearly to have been committed.
According to the speaker, the dead are not terribly inclined to pass through the grave's "sheltering door" again and their reluctance may suggest a condition of relative ease.
The gravest of all the consequences of colonial policy, for the economists, was that it set their own principles, of perfect liberty and perfect justice, in conflict with one another.
My literary perspectives were often subject to bouts of overconcern and grave underestimation of self.
He was about to lead the nation into war despite grave personal misgivings.
His grave was marked by a small wooden board bearing his name, the letters of which were nearly obliterated.
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