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There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; to severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

The company's channel-stuffing and use of manipulative accounting artifices warrants a severe civil sanction that will act as a deterrent for other public companies.

Linda Thomsen

Even with severe osteoporosis and proper approach, which is individualized for the woman, you can rebuild bone.

Carolyn Smith

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Cicero

It is increasingly clear that global warming makes [hurricanes] more severe and destructive. Katrina is the shape of things to come.

Joseph Romm

The fatigue of body and mind has almost unnerved this old frame, and unfitted me to endure the burdens which Providence calls upon me to bear. I find as I grow old I grow more peevish and cannot bear so much contradiction, therefore I am called uncharitable and severe. No matter -- this frail life will soon be over.

William Miller

This is the most severe penalty.

Rich Vespucci

Tom Scully sent an e-mail directing that we not respond to these requests and warning that the consequences of insubordination were extremely severe, ... I took that to mean that if I sent the responses, they would go ahead and fire me.

Patrick Foster

So someone who has had a fracture, whether it be a spine fracture, wrist fracture or hip fracture, and who has low bone density, would be considered to have severe disease.

Robert Lindsay

The one small grace in this is that the ripple effect on the whole economy will not be as severe as might be expected.

Alan Durham

There is uncertainty on how these lenders will be treated going forward. The declines may be severe considering their business growth potential.

Junichi Misawa

If damage to the infrastructure is found to be reasonably severe, prices will increase over the coming weeks.

Dominic Bryant

I think it was really a severe injury.

Herb Sendek

If that child's behavior is so severe that it warrants a behavior plan, that plan needs to be followed.

Janice Argabright

If not, people should arrange to be dropped off at the airport. The airport is experiencing severe parking congestion due to higher than expected demand.

Solomon Makgale

You can tell there's a lot of malnutrition issues there. One of the children, which some of our adults held, was a case of severe malnutrition.

Jeff Neary

There are arguments for a public safety risk, but it's not that severe at this point. Right now the government is being overbearing.

Jonathan Massell

The epidemic situation is very severe. Right now is spring, when there is a high chance of bird flu outbreaks due to the frequent movement of migratory birds. This epidemic has not been effectively controlled worldwide.

Yin Chengjie

Sometimes people will be a bit surprised that they have a reaction to severe weather that they didn't think they would have.

Mark Hale

We would not have had the ability to regulate these flows, we would have been in real trouble. The downstream impacts would have been much more severe than they are at present.

Jim Beal

We thought it was critical to continue our restoration efforts. We really needed to be able to do something that would avoid severe rate shock. That's what we're trying to do.

Dan Packer

The penalty for any bank that decides to issue cards on the Discover or American Express networks is severe. Visa and MasterCard rules are clear. They will throw banks out of their network, thus having the effect that banks must exit the retail banking business.

Harvey Golub

We lost a lot of self-esteem, a lot of credibility. We all hit the (job) market at the same time, vying for the same jobs. I went through a severe depression where I felt absolutely worthless.

Rosemary Barnes

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hurricane Katrina wasn't done when she unleashed her fury on America's Gulf Coast, wiping out New Orleans and devastating other coastal areas. She also dealt a severe body blow to consumer confidence across the board.

Raghavan Mayur

There is a growing emergency for more than 56,000 children who are believed to be suffering from moderate and severe malnutrition in affected areas. the figure is expected to rise dramatically over the next three months.

Dan Toole

It is important to protect the rights of the athletes properly because the penalties are severe in the end.

Mike Fennell

When allergy sufferers clean properly, they can manage their indoor air quality, and lessen the nasal congestion, coughing, sneezing, headaches and severe, flu-like symptoms, they often experience.

Mike Tringale

Sadly, as is the case with many stranded whales and dolphins, a combination of factors was likely to be the cause of death. Those factors include severe dehydration, some muscle damage, and reduction in kidney function. The animal, once entering the North Sea, would not have been able to feed, and this is the likely cause of the dehydration.

Paul Jepson

You like problems like this, where the severest attack is the least likely, and the most likely attack is the least severe.

Ivan Oelrich

We've probably evaluated close to 400 children worldwide that have severe spinal and chest malformations.

Robert Campbell

Approximately half of the serious eye injuries from fireworks resulted in severe loss in the affected eye.

Jonathan Jackson

We are still experiencing spot shortages, which are more severe in some parts of the country than others.

Michael Fleming

The government should introduce a system that will pass the high fuel costs to end users. Otherwise, electricity producers will suffer severe losses as fuel prices fluctuate.

Wang Yonggan

You'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb to not have known that oil prices went up. But if that indeed has a severe impact on economic growth, you'd still have to say that Wal-Mart is a defensive play. It sells the cheap food and consumables that consumers have to replenish.

Bernard Sosnick

The tragedy in Louisiana and Mississippi has laid bare severe shortcomings in our ability to respond to catastrophe.

Peter Sullivan

We saw everything from minor cuts and scrapes, to severe lacerations, broken bones, and cardiac arrests. Everything you could imagine was happening in that dome.

Deanna Lassegard

If the economy turns down we may have more severe credit problems.

Raghuram Rajan

Typically there's a sudden onset of severe pain when the vertebra collapses, ... Most of the time the incident can be set to a particular movement or activity.

Nelson Watts

I am going to accept the recommendation of both the government and the defense and impose a sentence on the low side of the range, ... But I will tell you that your offenses will no longer be tolerated. If you return (to court for a future offense), the sentence will be more severe.

William Sessions

If they have to lose their job and also face severe uncertainty of their asset value, then the combination of the two would be very negative for consumer sentiment. We would see a very severe spiral, a vicious spiral. So I'm very concerned about this possibility.

Yasushi Okada

We don't know what will happen. At this point, we don't know if a virulent strain will develop, or whether it will change over time, so it's not as severe in humans.

Paul Yates

You can't say there's going to be no death penalty and then say we can't have severe conditions of confinement.

Scott Turow

This is a severe hardship on the families right here at school time. These people are economic refugees. They are having to leave to find work and they are skilled, so they can find jobs.

Bob Wood

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Gerald F. Lieberman

The good thing is we are more hopeful about Nicky Butt. His hamstring injury is not as severe. You are normally out for 10-14 days with a small strain and he possibly could be available for the Villa game.

Steve Bruce

Texas, in particular, has many great challenges and there is a severe need for beds for adolescents. People are beginning to recognize the value of mental health treatment and therefore they are beginning to access treatment more.

Tim Simmons

Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

Paul Moreno

You have to give severe damage and strong liability because doctors and insurance companies put up a big fight.

Mark Krueger

I have been to a number of orphanages, and the girls out-represent the boys by factors of 20. Girls are much harder to place. The boys in orphanages tend to be those with severe health problems. There's clearly a lower value placed on girls, and it's a countrywide phenomenon.

Scott Baldauf

The Oklahoma City player comes up and delivers a severe blow to Travis' face and to his head. He uses his hand area, the top hand, to knock out Travis. You can see a clear jabbing motion. The level of cuts on Travis' face lead me to believe the stick was part of the blow as well.

Mark French

The problem with the original vaccine is when given to kids over 7, it caused some pretty severe reactions.

Paul Offit

We didn't get here in time due to a severe hangover. So I missed them getting stuffed by the All Blacks. But I've got a lot of Kiwi mates who have been willing to tell me all about it.

Alun Jones

That's the best way to get a short warning of a tornado or severe weather.

Nicky Kelly

Let's say a prayer the injury isn't too severe. He was dominating inside. I don't know if I've seen a defensive tackle inside dominate the way he did today.

Jim Schwartz

First time around they were talking about charges that were purely restructuring, and now about half are operating charges. It indicates some severe problems that are creating a completely different picture at the company than we had been led to believe. It calls into question what's going to happen in following years.

Chris Mecray

Flu seasons change widely in severity. We don't know if this was a severe season or not. This (study) is really a benchmark for future seasons.

Niranjan Bhat

When she entered the North Sea, she was probably a very fit and healthy whale. The ultimate cause of death is believed to be the result of a combination of factors including severe dehydration, some muscle damage and reduction of kidney function.

Paul Jepson

I would just hope that the two sides could figure out some way, in the midst of their conflict over other things, to consider the humanitarian needs that are so severe, particularly in the southern part of Ethiopia.

Hugh Parmer

It was a terrible play. When we reviewed it after practice, we became even more concerned because it was really very much a possibility that he could have had the most severe injury. The good news, there's a chance we get him back for the opening of the season.

Jerry Jones

In my mind, there's nothing our generation should be more ashamed of than people with severe mental illness being punished for a disease they can't do anything about.

Fran Quigley

Craven has good soils and the climate isn't severe.

Mike Carroll

Kathy's hearing loss caused severe limitations that made her unable to maintain employment. It cut her off from people and she needed to be able to communicate with people for her job.

Patsy Vegter

People don't realize you can get hypothermia in our waters. It's not as severe as in cold climates, but it happens all the time.

Jim Howe

It shouldn't be too severe yet. If we see these dry levels this summer, it could be disastrous.

Barry Keim

There is some good news in that the financial impacts on the district won't be as severe as if the protest would have taken place earlier in the year.

Hilary Mclean

We completed the process of shutting our operations down as it became clear that this is a very severe storm heading towards us.

David Nicholas

Dog cases cause such severe neighbor problems. The dog cases, they get so contentious.

Alison Tate

The only real finding was that it was progressively less severe, the more neighbors the birds had. It reinforces this general message of how important physical and social enrichment for these birds really is. Well thought-out physical and social environments should be first thing we think of.

Joseph Garner

These programs have helped thousands of producers recover from the devastating effects of severe weather in counties that have received a Presidential disaster declaration.

Mike Johanns

It doesn't necessarily mean a building moratorium, but it's severe enough we need to look at additional permitting.

Kurt Harclerode

I wasn't sure after the accident exactly how he'd come out of all this. It was certainly a severe accident and severe injuries he had. But he's made a remarkable recovery. In just the time he's worked with us, it's just incredible how much he improved.

Steve Antonopulos

The losses are that this market, in order to have access to it, we have to comply with this enormous body of severe restrictions and severe requirements.

Vaira Vike Freiberga

I think this confirms some of the concerns we had all along, that they have a more severe problem in Canada than the U.S..

Jim Magagna

The current situation appears to be the most severe structural problem we have yet encountered.

George Fulton

[The symptoms eventually became too severe to ignore.] He became very violent, and I couldn't handle him, ... I didn't know what to do with him.

Linda Dano

The brain injury is so severe that the daughter you had is gone. It's been destroyed. And the doctor was right for 20 years. She did nothing to speak of.

Jim Scantlin

It was quite a severe fire. At the moment we're treating it as suspicious but that's only as a cautionary action until an investigation proves otherwise.

Dave Moore

The abject poverty revealed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exists in every urban area of the United States. It's poverty so severe that it kills people.

Robert Edgar

These were deemed by the inspector and the federal agency not to be immediately dangerous. When you have more severe violations, you're going to see increasing monetary penalties.

Bruce Watzman

Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.

Maximilien Robespierre

With supply just not arriving quickly enough, it is increasingly looking as though it will take a severe downturn in economic growth and copper demand growth to tip the market into surplus.

Adam Rowley

People don't realize what a severe law this is. It is brutal. It applies to everybody, even people who work for the government. There are no exceptions.

Theresa M. Gallion

It's been more severe than we've had in the last few years, but about close to normal.

Jim Haskins

By the time we got here, Inverness was a lake. It is pretty bad, with severe damage, and our insurance policy didn't include floods.

Nav Singh

Your ego takes a severe beating, and you have to put it behind you and move on.

Jack Edwards

To put things in perspective, you must remember that it is estimated that between one and three million kids, mainly, die of malaria every year in the endemic regions. So a vaccine that can protect with a 50 percent efficacy against the severe form of the disease has the possibility of protecting against many of these deaths.

John Cohen

(She has a) severe blow to the head. She has a broken jaw, broken pelvis. They basically left my wife for dead. It's supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love. I can't see no love right now.

Islam Fish

Giving up could reverse the condition if it hasn't gone too far. If it's already severe, quitting will stop it getting any worse.

Amanda Sandford

They will not be impacted in any severe way, the president will continue to do the job he was elected to do, and where we need to fill in, we'll fill in.

Joe Lockhart

She's got some severe burns and it's on her hands and feet, so she'll be in the burn unit for awhile.

Mark Schulz

This is an impressive like-for-like figure and encouraging news for retailers in the capital, especially considering the severe and very worrying drop in sales seen in July through to October last year.

Kevin Hawkins

I'd work with law-enforcement officers to identify the gang members and deal with them in a quick and severe manner.

Jerry Jordan

We're not sure of the cause, but there was severe lightning in the area.

Roger Nicholson

That's a severe drop.

Jack Myers

The combination of active and virulent prejudice by DSS, as reflected in the flawed investigation and serial prosecution of (Machado), and as documented by Linda Pereira, constituted negligence and/or intentional conduct resulting in mental distress to the plaintiffs. Machado and Ferreira suffered severe emotional, physical and mental anguish as a result of this incident.

Brian Cunha

The damage to investor psychology is pretty severe and it takes a while to overcome that. But there is a lot of evidence of panicky selling, which one can only hope is indicative of a market trying to find its footing.

Rick Hutcheon

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

The problems are more severe than they thought.

John Mcmillan

Many asylum seekers are highly traumatized people who have survived torture and other severe abuses for whom prolonged detention in jail is particularly harmful.

Bill Frelick

They tend to be more ready for severe weather in that part of the world, because it's been so much a part of their lives.

Frank Strait

So, it may be that SARS is causing a slightly different or a slightly less severe form of illness at this point.

Iain Simpson

Certainly he should have been taken to a hospital and he wasn't. Certainly, people do survive severe burns, but they need to get to a burn center. In this case that care was deliberately denied.

Jim Leljedal

Already more severe than the rest of the country.

Alistair Darling

The war for talent is a real one. The public sector is losing that war, and the consequences are going to become more severe.

Max Stier

We'll protect our own citizens first; but, if we can offer help anywhere else, we're ready to do it. There's always the possibility for severe weather when a storm that big gets that close to us, but we know for a fact that it's going to cause damage down in Texas.

John Luther

If a person has a flea infestation, it is time to call a professional pest control company to treat the problem quickly and effectively. If someone has a severe reaction to flea bites, they should take precaution and seek immediate medical attention.

Cindy Mannes

The geomagnetic storm level is now severe. If the storm level stays like this, we should be in for some nice auroras tonight.

Paal Brekke

With numbing regularity, good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe.

Stanley Milgram

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

Carl Levin

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

Shirley Booth

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

Ambrose Bierce

When the ADA was enacted in 1990, Congress identified the segregation of people with disabilities as a severe form of discrimination. Yet 16 years later, Illinois continues to channel thousands of people with mental illnesses into large institutions while other states offer them the choice to live in the community.

Barry Taylor

This is a severe sentence. It really is, and with the [sex offender] registration requirement for the rest of his life and all the terms and conditions that he will have to comply with for the rest of his life because of probation, we'll get his attention we hope.

Kurt Mechals

It was like getting a severe dead arm, and it happened twice in the space of 20 minutes.

Daniel Kerr

[In the statement, the only] mistake ... severe error of not siding with the party central authorities.

Bao Tong

Iran is already under international pressure. A severe crackdown on social issues like the dress code could cause a popular backlash.

Saeed Leylaz

We don't have any severe damage at this point.

Gwen Davis

We disclosed this to Oracle on Oct. 25 last year. Around the same time, they were alerted to another high-risk flaw that is not as serious as this one. They fixed that one in the January CPU but neglected to fix this. It's not a case of not having enough time, because the fix is trivial and the risks are severe.

David Litchfield

We knew that they were going to be high. But they were even more severe than we expected.

Bill Little

Certainly, the market is going to be pretty rocky for a while. We're going to see severe volatility in the near-term.

Michael Sprung

The most immediate concern remains Iraq, where the prospect of further severe political and economic setbacks appears to be increasing.

Paul Horsnell

We could see another round of large hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes. We're right in the thick of the severe weather season here.

Jason Puma

I expect that Katrina will have very severe economic impacts because it will force consumers to increase expenditures on energy drastically.

Philip Verleger

These are not matters of simple personal misunderstanding between individuals. They are, particularly in the hands of leadership, severe constitutional violations that should not be tolerated in the Air Force.

Melinda Morton

The new data show that protons produce more potentially lethal double-strand breaks, a type of severe DNA damage, than other kinds of DNA damages. This means that scientists don't really know how human DNA is affected by the most numerous particles in space and, as a result, do not know how to design the proper protection for astronauts.

Betsy Sutherland

I think that we would prevail in not allowing the dog to return. When we're dealing with something as horrific as this and the damage is so severe, we don't want that dog going back to any area.

Bob Garcia

If left unchecked, erosion can affect nearby structures. However, in this case, the erosion was not so severe as to threaten neighboring properties.

Heather Saucier

We almost lost him in that accident. He is having a rough time trying to get back in shape because his leg injuries were pretty severe and he is experiencing a lot of pain.

Lynn Lafree

The problem is more severe here.

Yvette Lopez

The full benefit of the 18 million vehicle sales pace a year ago was never really achieved because of severe negative pricing over last couple of years. What's going to happen as auto demand decline you're not going to see pricing go up, you'll see pricing go down more.

Rod Lache

The outplacement industry has gone through much more of a severe downturn than anyone, including us, would have anticipated.

Jeff Joerres

We have a severe fire in one of those carriages, with tremendous devastation in there, ... And we face some considerable challenges as far as identification of the numbers who are in there and the identification of anything that remains in there.

Andy Trotter

This was not the first outburst on his part or action on his part, which is consistent with someone with a severe anger management problem.

Larry Rodriguez

They wouldn't give them to me, and I was out. I suffer from severe depression among other things, and that's medicine that I need to take. And I felt very hopeless, and I called around to several different people that should be able to help me and couldn't.

Susan Gray

It causes severe illness and high mortality rates.

Dr. Mark Horton

I think a lot of it had to do with pressure. A lot of those girls are under severe pressure from their coaches and their family and their supporters, and when it comes to the Olympics, a lot of people just get nervous and it just affects them.

Lanny Barnes

Deflationary pressures in food continue to be severe and are not projected to ease until the second quarter. Better buying and category management efforts are expected to result in some gross margin improvement.

Merrill Lynch

The fire is what killed him, not the crash. He had severe burns over a good portion of his body, ... He probably would have been all right had the plane not caught fire. When our deputies got to the scene he was awake and talking to them and the ambulance personnel.

Paul Cunningham

The big ecological changes are really beginning ... in the West. We're seeing some of the effects already — massive forest die-offs, outbreaks of severe forest fires. Whatever affects the watershed is potentially devastating.

Tom Swetnam

With nearly two months of Prozac sales data available, the erosion in prescriptions is the most severe ever for a blockbuster product in our industry.

Sidney Taurel

The defendant has earned and deserves a very, very severe sentence that is designed to imprison him for the rest of his life.

Craig Parsons

Ken is awake intermittently and talking to us. There is no evidence of severe brain injury in that regard. We need more time to see if there are residual problems from the bruising of his brain.

Stan Herring

We typically see severe weather in November, December and January; so some of our really severe events have actually happened in the winter time.

Cliff Lusk

She had an amazing figure and her clothes were very severe and elegant.

Isabella Blow

It's like night and day when you compare this to 9-11, when the national trauma was so severe that the media felt uncomfortable being too critical of the administration.

Paul Levinson

One suspect was shot with a shotgun and sustained severe injuries....

Captain Jabulani Mdletshe

When there is severe weather, like a tornado, you don't want to be tying up the emergency phone lines.

Todd Sherman

Members report severe slowing of October business activity resulting from the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist events, which aggravated already-weak business conditions.

Ralph Kauffman

This worm is a medium threat in terms of its distribution, but in terms of the damage it can create, it's a more severe threat.

Art Gilliland

This is a really horrible, tragic case, and the potential consequences are quite severe. Investigators really want to be thorough.

Lynn Hightower

Whenever we have inclement weather moving in, we try to protect our firefighters to make sure safety is number one. We have some additional resources here to get them out of that weather in case we have severe lightning.

Matt Davis

This has been one of the more severe red tide years.

Richard Pierce

Having been around audits for a number of years, there was nothing particularly outstanding in the audit that I would consider to be a severe deficiency, ... Some things need to be changed, and they will be.

James Gallagher

With the severe winter approaching in a few weeks, we are racing against time to save people and have asked them to come down from the highlands.

Aftab Sherpao

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Gilbert Parker

We accepted full responsibility for the wrongdoing that occurred, and we felt that the loss of scholarships, extended probation, and other penalties imposed by the NCAA were an appropriately severe response to the violations. Our appeal was focused on the additional postseason ban, because we believed it fell disproportionately on the current, innocent players and coaches.

Mary Sue Coleman

This is important because if an obese person begins an exercise program, he may not cognitively experience pain when in fact it is hurting the body on some level. That could lead to severe pain down the road.

Charles Emery

I hope that we recognize this could be a very severe time for a lot of people.

Doug Wilder

In patients with COPD, even moderate but certainly more severe COPD, each breath is something they have to focus on. They have to understand what they can and can't do within the course of the day, based on their breathing.

Fernando Martinez

A young child who doesn't understand what is occurring during a severe storm like a hurricane can easily become confused and frightened as a result of these unpredictable events.

Robert Butterworth

We're doing everything we can to get out in front of this outbreak and try to get it stopped. Mumps can produce severe complications, and we're trying to do whatever we can to prevent them from happening.

Patricia Quinlisk

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Clarence Darrow

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

We don't have any severe forecasts for tomorrow. The activity will be today.

Joe Schaefer

Torture is defined, with reasonable certainty, severe pain and suffering, physical or psychological. It is defined about as well as legal terms can be defined.

David Rivkin

We were literally rebuilding our electrical distribution system. This was definitely a severe storm and had significant damage to our system and the customers' property.

Allan Urlis

Surprisingly, it appears that after even the most severe fires, the forest is naturally very resilient, more than it?s often given credit for.

Dan Donato

We are running out of road on decision making -- unless we dramatically change the use of fossil fuels we will be committing future generations to the most severe impacts of climate change.

Barbara Young

For a jury to award half a million dollars for emotional distress means they evaluated the evidence as reflecting severe and serious harassment and discrimination.

Michael Mcauliffe

It's a severe loss to our country and the African-American community nationwide. I would put her in the same league as Rosa Parks in terms of what she represents.

Raoul Cunningham

The prognosis is really dismal. Anywhere along the coast we're looking at severe restrictions, and it's as bad as last year if not worse. This is going to be devastating.

Pietro Parravano

We want to understand what is wrong in patients with severe asthma and apply what we learn to help them.

Wendy Moore

It is tragically ironic that while Lydia nests on one the world's most remote and pristine islands, she makes her living in some of the most degraded seas on the planet. Fishing pressure is huge and marine pollution is severe.

David James

They have no wheelchair for him, he can barely walk, he has a cast on his left leg and he's in severe pain.

Howard Morgan

Any time you have a home where there's severe violence, there can be damage. There was a concern.

Marissa Gonzales

(Jade) was diagnosed with severe mold induced asthma.

Jeanne Black

The correction was severe because it came late. The Saudi market had been highly inflated, especially last month when it shot up by 20%.

Ali Taqi

Good to the poor, to kindred dear, / To servants kind, to friendship clear, / To nothing but herself severe.

Thomas Carew

I think the penalty here is much too severe. We might have some gamesmanship going on - an agency could become a bargaining chip.

Rep. Mary Brandenburg

Capacity constraints throughout the industry have become severe.

Geoff Kieburtz

It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. We're hoping after the first month, this all kind of calms down. I'm sure it will be a good program eventually.

Jennifer Adams

It's just an incredibly serious situation — the combination of severe exposure and the loss of resources.

Fran Norris

We call on the prime minister to go to parliament at once and take stock of the most severe crisis that Italy has ever had regarding its relations with Europe.

Piero Fassino

It really is time for Seattle to move K-12 education to the top of the priority list because of the severe challenges facing the district.

Joe Quintana

It appears that these red tide events are increasing in nature, especially on Florida's west coast. I think that manatees and other animals impacted by these events are sentinels for serious environmental and human problems, and in fact our research makes a strong case for potentially severe human red-tide impacts.

Gregory Bossart

It looks like an atomic bomb hit the place. It is severe damage. This is more than a local disaster, this is a national disaster.

Neil Clarke

Our code black is for severe weather. We do not have a bomb scare code.

Lisa Jones

It was an overwhelming experience. I had never experienced anything this severe before. I felt a tremendous sense of relief. I was totally drained afterward. I'm still dealing with my emotions two weeks later.

Melissa O'brien

Several factors are expected to come together Friday creating the potential for severe weather.

Dan Mccarthy

This crime should not be singled out from others. The defendants of this crime, who are normally law-abiding citizens, already face very severe penalties. Why not assess these costs, if they are going to be assessed at all, to other police calls which may include violent acts by a hardened criminal?

Peter Berger

The geopolitical factor could work negatively for the dollar if tensions get more severe.

Tetsuya Aida

These two situations are anomalies. High school football games have been going on for years, and we have not for many years had any deaths or severe injuries.

Lucille Baur

The initiative is a severe limitation of the number of crimes that can be considered for a life sentence. It involves the release of thousands of felons that juries, judges and prosecutors ... have decided ... should serve their sentences. We would hope that the people would pay attention to our vote.

David Labahn

It's a severe suspension, five games. Marty is going to be a big loss to our hockey club, ... but having said that, there's no place in hockey for kicking. I'm very sure that Marty is very sorry it happened. I don't think he intended to injure anybody.

John Muckler