grievous Betydning & definition

Eksempler på grievous

• It seems to me that the police power has become the refuge of every grievous wrong upon private property.

• It would seem to be a grievous disregard for the rules of his own method, a disregard motivated principally by moral emotion and political opinion.

• These past deprivations were associated with what we now understand to have been grievous injustices.

• Indeed, the restriction imposed by the enclosures on access to common resources was a grievous blow to the poorest segments of the rural population, 'pushing' them to urbanization.

• The same did not apply on sentencing at reoffence when a number of subjects received community disposals, including one who had been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm.

• Group histories of grievous exploitation or national independence are found not to explain patterns of secessionism.

• Regions suffering grievous national crimes (such as mass deportation or conquest) tended to be no more separatist, on the whole, than groups not bearing such grievances.

• These words suggest that communal fields were grievous not only because they constituted forced labor, but also because they broke down established patterns of patronage and social and gender hierarchies.