Word: graving
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Although we may tolerate such irrationality in other sentencing contexts, the premise of Furman was that such arbitrary and capricious decision making is imply invalid when applied to a matter as grave as the determination of whether a human life should be taken or spared...
...across the screen to pinpoint where lesser-known countries are situated, but the globes were so minute that it was hard to discern even continents. Some of the prepackaged features, put together in the name of world brotherhood, were embarrassing: John Denver crooned a mawkish ballad at a mass grave for 11,000 victims of the Nazis; and McKay, Frank Gifford and Bob Beattie mugged their way through a mock-boozy time-out in a Yugoslav...
...decrease in aid would have "grave implications" for the material scholars use for study, said Kenneth Carpenter, librarian for research and publication...
...MOST arguments about euthanasia have pointed out, there is a grave difference between "passive" and "active" euthanasia. In the one case, a doctor may simply choose not to revive a terminally-ill patient whose heart has stopped, "letting nature take its course." In the other, a doctor actually may administer a lethal drug to put an end to a patient's suffering...
...unambiguous. As an unbroken line, of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1931 makes clear, the constitutional ban on prior restraint of publication is all but absolute. An exception might be made if there was a grave and immediate threat to the national security, but no such case has ever arisen...