grave responsibility

collocation in English

meaningsofgraveandresponsibility

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grave
adjective
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/ɡreɪv/us
/ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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responsibility
noun
uk
/rɪˌspɒn.sɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/rɪˌspɑːn.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
something that it is your job or duty to ...
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(Definition ofgraveandresponsibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrave responsibility

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I feel sure that nobody at this moment can approach this question without realising thegraveresponsibilityto which allusion has already been made.
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On them surely rests agraveresponsibility, because they happen also to be the policymakers.
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It is that feeling that has made me speak with a sense ofgraveresponsibility.
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Countries that allowed that to happen would bear agraveresponsibility.
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Those who would remove the deterrent take agraveresponsibility, because we have heard that it is a deterrent.
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I would go further, and say that if it did decline it would be undertaking a verygraveresponsibility.
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We have agraveresponsibilityfor the wives and duties of our soldiers.
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This is agraveresponsibilitywhich he will carry to the grave and further, if further there be.
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I think they have a verygraveresponsibility.
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It is a verygraveresponsibilityfor a professional man to take.
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Agraveresponsibilityaccompanies that privilege: the responsibility of good faith which goes with unlimited liability.
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If you fling away that one lever that you have in your hand without further discussion, you will be incurring a verygraveresponsibilityindeed.
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The trustees of this collection had a verygraveresponsibility, for its housing had to be forever.
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Unfortunately the official who instituted the prosecution of these men took on him-self the horrible andgraveresponsibilityof shedding their blood.
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I cannot help thinking, in doing so, that we are taking a verygraveresponsibilityupon ourselves.
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Some of the media have agraveresponsibilityfor some of the deaths that have occurred.
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In my opinion, we should incur agraveresponsibilitybefore the bar of history, if we did not present these proposals.
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If my party wins the next election, it will face agraveresponsibility.
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Somewhere there must be agraveresponsibilityfor these events.
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We should trust them, as we have every reason to trust them under all governments, to exercise thatgraveresponsibilityseriously.
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