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Among the victims was a Coptic priest, whom the captors beat severely before shaving his head and moustache.
The writer Humayun Azad was severely injured in an attack at the annual book fair in 2004.
Aid agencies that have managed to negotiate access with al-Shabaab should continue to do so, even though their activities are severely restricted.
Despite this revelation, treatments for MND are still severely lacking.
The longer the standoff lasts, the more likely it is to sully Xi’s carefully cultivated image as a powerful leader, and that of China as Asia’s hegemon, which would undermine popular support for the regime at home and severely weaken China’s influence over its neighbors.
Even if refugee children eventually manage to get somewhere safe, their prospects are bleak, because most will never have a chance to go to school – a reality that will severely undermine their ability to find gainful employment.
In today’s interconnected world, an unidentified cyber attack on non-governmental infrastructure might be severely damaging.
Let banks design their own risk management systems, audit them to the limited extent possible, and then severely punish them if they produce a loss outside agreed parameters.
The fashionable idea of allowing banks to issue “contingent capital” (debt that becomes equity in a systemic crisis) is no more credible than the idea of committing to punish banks severely in the event of a crisis.
Experiments on great apes are now either banned or severely restricted in New Zealand, Australia, and Japan.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to borrow to finance trade.
This is a boost for the IMF, and it gives hope to emerging and developing countries that have been severely hit by a crisis that originated elsewhere.
Instead, by going after the hard-pressed 47% of America – the very people who have been hurt the most by reckless bank behavior – his prospect of victory in November has been severely damaged.
Yet its constitution severely constrains its ability to send combat units for the Security Council’s peacekeeping operations.
Its handling of the Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998 severely antagonized leading middle-income emerging-market countries – and they still believe that the Fund does not have their interests at heart.
All of this suggests that as many as 20% of American adults may be severely mentally ill.
In view of disputes over the significance of available data, let’s assume that only 10% of American adults are severely mentally ill.
Perhaps the idea that severely damaged economies, with limited prospects for independent recoveries, would pass up the opportunity that international cooperation presented was implausible.
Steel-consuming companies (such as manufacturers of automobiles, machine tools, and farm equipment) are now severely disadvantaged relative to their foreign competitors.
Last year, this settlement pattern severely exacerbated the impact of Hurricane Sandy – the second-costliest hurricane in US history.
Inequality remains the scourge of our era, with the bargaining power of the lowest-skilled workers severely undermined by automation and developing-country competition.
So it should be no surprise that ideological cacophony has severely diluted the group’s founding impulse of avoiding entanglement in the disputes of the world’s superpowers.
To be sure, Putin is nowhere near securing a return to the Soviet Union’s imperial days in the Middle East – not least because Russia’s capacity to sustain a military operation beyond its borders remains severely limited.
Yet, as we approach this year’s autumn meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the BRICS remain severely underrepresented by these critical institutions.
The Greek banking system’s solvency and access to refinancing would be hit severely.
Today’s haphazard, overlapping regional integration is proving largely ineffective, and this severely hampers African countries’ ability to compete in international markets.
It is hard to imagine, though, that with the US household savings rate at about 5%, and with households severely indebted, they are saving too much.
If Tibetan Buddhism was severely damaged, Chinese Communism has barely survived the ravages of the twentieth century, either.
With fewer opportunities to attend conferences abroad, publish papers in Western academic journals, or spend time teaching or conducting research outside of China, their professional development and careers could be severely impaired.
After all, financial crises are directly linked to significant output declines and unemployment spikes; and, equally important, they often severely damage social cohesion.
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