Severe
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1912 examples of Severe in a sentence
A woman will have to carry an ectopic pregnancy, or a fetus so damaged that it cannot live, until complications become
severe
enough that her life is “directly” in danger.
The PiS-dominated parliament has introduced
severe
procedural constraints on the court’s operations.
Moreover, the negative consequences of tightening monetary conditions in developed countries will likely become more severe, given the disconnect between asset bubbles and recoveries in the real economy.
Back to Housing BubblesNEW YORK – It is widely agreed that a series of collapsing housing-market bubbles triggered the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, along with the
severe
recession that followed.
They see that immigrants tend to be qualified East Europeans, many of them physicians, while the number of Swedes registered as sick or in early retirement has underpinned a
severe
labor shortage.
But if they act, domestic political opposition would likely be so
severe
as to drive them from power.
In addition to the prospect of enormous human suffering,
severe
economic, political, and social pressures now threaten to overwhelm and destabilize developing countries, triggering conflict on an unprecedented scale.
Admittedly, the Fiscal Compact needs some modifications to ensure that the penalties for noncompliance are automatic, prompt, and not too
severe
to be credible.
Population growth, urbanization, and industrialization are exacerbating resource-related stresses, with some cities experiencing
severe
water shortages, and degrading the environment (as anyone who has experienced Beijing’s smog can attest).
Faced with
severe
supply constraints, Asian economies are increasingly tapping other continents’ fossil fuels, mineral ores, and timber.
We have helped people affected by
severe
flooding in Southeast Asia, and by drought in the Horn of Africa, where 14 million need emergency help.
A five-year investigation of Intel may also end with
severe
penalties.
But the link between the global financial and economic crises will confront Europe with
severe
challenges – but also a big opportunity.
In the United States, farmers are experiencing the most
severe
drought in more than a half-century.
But the
severe
dry spell parching croplands across the US is only the latest in a global cycle of increasingly frequent and damaging droughts.
Her grown children, who viewed her body, told relatives that they saw evidence of torture and that she had sustained a
severe
head wound.
Without
severe
crisis, no significant reform was likely.
Severe
political and constitutional breakdown, as well as extensive social and institutional fragmentation, also hampers – or, in cases like Libya or Yemen, blocks – reform.
The battle for control of Baghdad would be similarly
severe.
The more thinly capitalized banks are, the more
severe
these distortions – and the larger the expected costs rising from insulating executives from potential losses to non-shareholder stakeholders.
Two months of bad economic news, coupled with asset markets’
severe
revaluations of the future – which also cause slower future growth, as falling asset prices lead firms to scale back investment – mean that a policy that was appropriate just 60 days ago is much too austere today.
We now know that some of these market emperors had no clothes, and that their activities, far from benign, could result in
severe
financial instability and generate serious losses for taxpayers, not to mention precipitating a global recession.
True, no great war has erupted, and we have more or less avoided the mistakes of the Great Depression, which led in the 1930s to greater protectionism, bank failures,
severe
austerity, and a deflationary environment.
The demise of military dictatorships and the spread of democratic regimes throughout Latin America (except for Cuba) means that even
severe
economic, class, ethnic, and other tensions now more often manifest themselves politically, in struggles for votes and influence.
In 2011, the UN published a set of Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, according to which companies whose “operating contexts pose risks of
severe
human rights impacts should report formally on how they address them.”
If Trump starts a trade war – by, say, following through on his vow to impose a 45% tariff on imports from China and to build a wall on the US border with Mexico – the economic impact will be even more
severe.
The social consequences can also be severe: eviction, the loss of livelihoods, and violent conflict.
Unfortunately, the international community’s increasingly
severe
economic sanctions have so far failed to deter its leaders’ ambitions.
Moreover, even if duress facilitates structural reforms in some cases, it certainly does not do so in societies that have already experienced
severe
hardship.
So we now have recession, a
severe
financial crisis, and a
severe
banking crisis in the advanced economies.
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