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Some 4.5 million children are malnourished, almost half of them severely.
Floods and droughts would become more intense and global sea levels would be several meters higher, severely disrupting lives and livelihoods, and causing massive population movements and inevitable conflict around the world.
South Africa’s role as a global human-rights leader will be severely undermined if Zuma agrees to sign the secrecy bill into law, or if the constitutional court fails to strike it down.
And science predicts that, unless we severely constrain consumption of oil and coal around the world, the climate will continue to warm, increasing ocean volume and melting huge amounts of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic – thereby causing disastrous rises in sea level.
These decisions about the allocation of educational opportunity severely stunt female leadership potential.
The European Union severely restricts labor from non-member countries, but allows free movement of labor within its single market.
Likewise, though establishing a Confucius Institute in Manila to teach Filipino people about Chinese culture may help to cultivate China’s soft power, its impact will be severely constrained if China is simultaneously using its hard power to bully the Philippines in the territorial dispute over the Scarborough Shoal.
Manfred Worner, NATO’s Secretary General until his death last August, used to warn in private that the Alliance would not survive another Yugoslavia; it already has been severely wounded by the present conflict.
Trump needs a favorable outcome to compensate for a series of domestic political failures that have severely eroded his political capital and sent his approval ratings to record lows.
Although all countries offer some kind of social protection or security, in most countries, coverage is severely limited and targeted at specific groups.
This will severely weaken global trade, thereby undermining economies’ growth prospects, while preventing the world from confronting shared challenges.
The vast majority of severely mentally disordered individuals are not violent.
One reason is that American educational privacy laws severely restrict the sharing of information, even with parents, let alone with other authorities.
Moreover, the US Constitution prohibits preventive detention: even severely disturbed individuals cannot be detained involuntarily unless judged an imminent threat to themselves or others.
Since the crisis, rating agencies have been under attack, and major regulation, which could severely affect their business, has been discussed on both sides of the Atlantic.
If history is any guide, markets can be severely destabilized by one-day drops, which make powerful stories that have more psychological salience to investors than much larger drops that occur over longer time intervals.
Rouhani severely criticized Ahmadinejad’s cash-transfer policy, which was designed to compensate for lost bread and energy subsidies.
In the majority of the Western world, Putin is regarded as an outcast, Xi is flirting with a similar loss of credibility, and Prince Mohammed’s reputation as a reformer has been severely damaged, perhaps beyond repair.
Moreover, if conditions in the eurozone continue to deteriorate, Asia could be more severely affected.
Fads, Frenzies, and FinanceBarcelona – The financial crisis, credit crunch, and ensuing economic downturn have severely damaged the credibility of financial markets, institutions, and traders.
Today, the Chernobyl meltdown is judged severely in both moral and metaphysical terms.
Harvard University’s Gita Gopinath and Emmanuel Farhi and Princeton University’s Oleg Itskhoki remind us that for a large part of the year, the Republican tax-reform plans centered around a “border adjustment tax” that would have done little for the economy while severely weakening the US’s net foreign-asset position.
Not only does this severely undermine the ability of small firms to compete, but it also contributes to systemic instability of the type that we experienced in 2008, thus increasing the likelihood that taxpayers will have to step in.
Yet in many African countries, 80% of primary schools do not have electricity, severely compromising the quality of instruction.
Perhaps half of the children are severely underweight.
Now a study of severely demented patients in Boston-area nursing homes shows that the “friend” is often being fought with antibiotics.
The study, carried out by Erika D’Agata and Susan Mitchell and recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that over 18 months, two-thirds of 214 severely demented patients were treated with antibiotics.
Moreover, labor mobility is severely constrained by linguistic and cultural barriers, as well as administrative bottlenecks.
This was not forgiven, and was judged more severely than the shortcomings of his presidential record, which was not significantly worse than that of his predecessors.
But these buffers would be severely strained if the gathering storms converged into a single devastating gale.
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