adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/serious/severe setback
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This is a serious setback to the company.
a big/severe embarrassment
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This failure was a severe embarrassment to the government.
a deep/severe recession
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We are in the middle of a severe recession.
a major/serious/deep/severe crisis
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Our farming industry has been hit by a serious crisis.
a serious/severe constraint
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The country's debts put serious constraints on its economic growth.
a serious/severe disadvantage
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Public transport is very bad here, which is a serious disadvantage.
a severe frost (= when the temperature falls several degrees below freezing point )
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Many plants were damaged by the severe frost.
a severe reaction
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A severe allergic reaction to the drug has killed five Americans.
a severe/devastating earthquake (= causing a lot of damage )
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The whole town was flattened by a devastating earthquake.
a severe/serious shortage
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There is a serious shortage of food in some areas.
a severe/stiff/heavy/tough/harsh penalty
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There were calls for stiffer penalties for killers of police officers.
a severe/strong gale
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Severe gales disrupted road and rail travel throughout Britain.
a severe/terrible/awful blow
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The news was a terrible blow for his family.
a severe/violent/fierce storm
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He set out in a violent storm for Fort William.
bad/serious/severe
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The mines have caused serious pollution of the river system.
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The pollution was so bad that most of the fish died.
bad/severe migraine
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He suffers from severe migraine.
bad/terrible/severe
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I’ve got a really bad headache.
deep/severe cuts (= big reductions )
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Deep cuts were made in research spending.
extreme/severe poverty
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They live in conditions of extreme poverty.
extreme/severe
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These mountain people are used to the extreme climate.
grave/great/serious/severe misgivings (= serious and important worries )
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Most of us have grave misgivings about the idea of human cloning.
great/considerable/severe strain
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The country’s health system is under great strain.
harsh/severe
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The court decided the original punishment was too severe.
intense/severe nausea
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The woman suffered from severe nausea and vomiting.
major/serious/severe difficulties
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By then, we were having serious financial difficulties.
serious/severe erosion
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Some areas of the coast have suffered severe erosion.
serious/severe unemployment
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After the pit closed, the town experienced severe unemployment.
serious/severe
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His illness is more severe than the doctors first thought.
serious/severe
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The earthquake caused severe damage to a number of buildings.
serious/severe
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He was admitted to hospital with a serious infection.
serious/severe/bad
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He was taken to Broomfield Hospital with serious head wounds.
severe reprimand
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a severe reprimand
severe symptoms
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If the baby develops severe symptoms, call 911.
severe/extreme embarrassment
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This scandal could cause severe embarrassment to the government.
severe/hard/harsh (= very cold )
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In a hard winter, many birds starve.
severe/heavy bleeding (= when someone is losing a lot of blood )
severe/intense
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Ever since the accident, Mike’s suffered from severe back pain.
severe/serious burns
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She was taken to the hospital with serious burns.
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Several of the survivors suffered severe burns .
severe/serious/extreme hardship (= very bad )
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The 1930s brought severe hardship to the Midwest, especially for Oklahoma.
severe/serious/important limitations
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This approach to the problem has serious limitations.
severe/strict restrictions
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The regime had put severe restrictions upon the media.
severe/widespread famine
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Widespread famine had triggered a number of violent protests.
sharp/drastic/severe cutback
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sharp cutbacks in the military budget
strong/severe/heavy criticism
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This decision attracted heavy criticism from environmental groups.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Some experts suggested that the damage resulting from the slick was not as severe as had first been assumed.
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In one later incarnation, she is depicted as severe , with a scalpel and a large pair of pincers.
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The staff had heard it before on numerous occasions but nothing as severe or as noisy as on this particular night.
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The temperature and drought that summer were as severe as the country had seen since the mid-1930s.
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Her eyes were red-rimmed but the set of her mouth was as severe as that of a judge.
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The reaction at Emory University has not been as severe for Brown.
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But Taylor insists that the funding shortfall isn't as severe as opponents believe.
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The irony of his failure to act as a hero is as severe as anything in Conrad.
less
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Obviously excluding more severe cases results in bias because the remainder are less severe.
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The vertiginous episodes tend to grow less frequent and less severe as hearing loss progresses.
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The isolation of prisoners and their rights became less severe .
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Much less severe memory deficits are sometimes seen after removal of the temporal lobe on only one side.
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Criticism of the audit report proposals is less severe , but still material.
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The vertigo is less severe than that due to end-organ disease, and visual fixation inhibits neither the nystagmus nor the vertigo.
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But disaster, when it came, was less severe than had been foretold.
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Some children are maddeningly passive-aggressive; in others the problem may be less severe .
more
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She was much younger than the serving women and her aura was rather more severe .
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But advocates for disabled children said the rules will also deny assistance to those with much more severe problems.
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Had that been taken into account, his humiliation would have been even more severe .
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Withdrawal symptoms appear to be more severe following withdrawal from high doses or from short-acting benzodiazepines.
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The effects are more severe than oxygen depletion and may result in prolonged poor health in your fish.
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First, it could turn slowdowns into recessions and average recessions into more severe ones.
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Since an expanding post-war economy stimulated immigration into Britain, governments have imposed more and more severe restrictions on entry.
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And the remedial orders grew more expensive as shortfalls in revenue became more severe ....
most
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It is ironic that often the most severe weather conditions can produce some of the most intricate and fragile sights.
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Even though the Wilson administration had witnessed the most severe racial disorders since Reconstruction no really positive response was given.
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Their data indicate that serious deforestation was occurring more than 200 years ago and was most severe between 1890 and 1930.
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The first minutes of it are the most severe .
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The penalty is believed to be the most severe yet meted out to a scientist for falsifying research findings.
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At first glance it was much like the original, but the most severe criticisms of the original were successfully addressed.
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In heavy experimental infections the most severe signs have appeared at 6-12 weeks after infection when egg-laying is maximal.
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And this one was the most severe of all since the pains started three years ago.
particularly
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We agree that the loss of the traditional local shop can have a particularly severe impact on the community it serves.
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In the colonial and semicolonial world, the inflationary consequences of the oil crisis promise to be particularly severe .
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Immobilization produces increased bone resorption resulting in hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria, and is particularly severe in young persons.
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The surprise was caused by a particularly severe solar storm that had compressed the magnetosphere.
so
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Clearly too many diets involve deprivation that is so severe that the dieter breaks away from them.
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Her beating was so severe , her teeth were smashed.
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And this can cause side effects which can be so severe that the drugs must be used very sparingly.
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It must also dole out a level of punishment so severe that it precludes any further response.
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The crisis is so severe Downing Street gave in to Labour demands to recall Parliament.
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The impact was so severe it left a small, black crater in the snow-white cornfield in rural Ida.
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The damage had been so severe that at one stage, the fail out order had been given.
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The bruise was so severe that he walked with a cane for months and underwent thousands of dollars in medical treatment.
too
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It also allows the colonization of environments that would otherwise be too severe .
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There was the simplicity, death and its suggestion of permanence, that was almost too severe and stark for human eyes.
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Patients need information regarding the treatment plan, its timescale and any alternative options should the side-effects become too severe to continue.
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Are the consequences of telling the truth too severe ?
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For example, the massive recession between 1979 and 1981 was caused by too severe a financial squeeze.
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But such transitions could only occur if the number of intermediate steps was small, and the fitness loss not too severe .
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The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish.
very
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As the most expensive section of the labour force, middle-aged workers have faced very severe pressures to terminate their employment.
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Finally, at eighty-six, she suffered a very severe heart attack that killed her.
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Sewing imposes very severe conditions for the threads.
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There were considerable losses, owing partly to the circumstances of capture and partly to the very severe conditions on the voyage.
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If the pain is very severe with inability to swallow and much drooling.
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He had a very severe prenatal area which yet would not lift to view.
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Moreover, there may well be some very severe doubts about the application of the biological model even to the favourite cases.
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He says the crash damage was very severe .
■ NOUN
attack
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Modern methods of livestock farming have come under severe attack since the 1989 outbreak of salmonella.
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A child under ten had only three chances in a thousand of becoming the victim of a severe attack of polio.
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The paint may blister in a mild attack or show yellow soapy runs in a severe attack.
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After a severe attack of bronchitis in 1959, Normand moved to Winchester where he died 25 October 1982.
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I have in fact only once been incapacitated, on that occasion by a severe attack of malaria.
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Twelve patients with ulcerative colitis had mild, 19 moderate, and 10 severe attacks .
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She had been advised by her doctor to seek admission to hospital in the event of a severe attack .
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Withdrawal from heroin, usually described in lurid nightmare language, is actually like a severe attack of gastric flu.
blow
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The failure of the Accord was also a severe blow to Mulroney and prompted opposition calls for his resignation.
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This was a severe blow because we needed him desperately.
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Pittsburgh suffered a severe blow , however, when quarterback Neil O'Donnell broke his right leg.
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This is a severe blow to the Fernandez family.
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Bank Assistants have suffered a severe blow .
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Pentrite can explode without a detonator if it receives a severe blow or strong friction.
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Finally, the cutting of trade with the United States from 1985 was a severe blow .
burn
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Up to eight people are missing and others have severe burns .
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But both suffered severe burns to their face and body.
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The woman is critical with severe burns .
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Quirot, third at Barcelona, suffered severe burns when her home was set ablaze by a lamp in January 1993.
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Dredge crashed Z3057 on the airfield in flames and suffered severe burns .
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Thirteen of the survivors had suffered severe burns .
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Do not dress or interfere with severe burns until expert help is available but do treat the shock.
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He said 13 of the survivors had severe burns , but many others were suffering from shock.
case
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Obviously excluding more severe cases results in bias because the remainder are less severe.
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In the most severe cases , work-inhibited children may be so inept that any school assignment is overwhelming.
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In more severe cases dyspnoea and tenacious nasal discharge are also present.
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In the severe case he or she is extremely uncomfortable, experiencing vertigo on any head motion accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
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You probably realised she's a severe case of portal cirrhosis, with ascites and jaundice.
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In the past, women with these symptoms rarely sought treatment, and women with severe cases were hospitalized.
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Acne can affect the face, chest and back and, in severe cases , cause painful cysts.
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Hospitalization is necessary in severe cases .
crisis
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Now, after more than a year of severe crisis , boom times are back.
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Politics, healthcare, and public education are all in severe crisis .
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The notion that the Social Security system is facing a severe crisis is a vast and cynical overstatement.
criticism
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Despite severe criticism , the newspaper conducted a poll in 1980 into the paranormal beliefs and experiences of its readers.
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This encouraged providers to cream off the easiest to serve, and led to severe criticism .
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The most severe criticism was that wind pressure on the huge rotors could capsize the ship.
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Another difficulty is that the various methods of measuring the lag are subject to severe criticisms .
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By the early 1980s the Commission had been coming under increasingly severe criticism from conservationists and others.
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Bush came in for severe criticism , first for encouraging the coup, then for failing to support it.
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A wide range of popular culture came under severe criticism in the early twentieth century.
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At first glance it was much like the original, but the most severe criticisms of the original were successfully addressed.
damage
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That is nothing short of irresponsibility, and inflicts severe damage on our democracy.
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Paralyzed muscles lost tone and became flaccid; with severe damage they further degenerated through shrinkage and atrophy.
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This factor, together with the severe damage caused to the roads and power supplies, greatly hampered relief efforts.
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In addition to causing severe damage , the floods were responsible for the deaths of at least five people.
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A fracture to left arm and severe damage to the left pelvic area occurred during his recovery from the ice.
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Smoke and flames caused severe damage to the contents of the building.
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In addition to the deaths and injuries, the blast from the explosion caused severe damage to both buildings.
depression
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He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression .
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The economy had suffered severe depression in the eariy 1960s and was having a hard time reviving.
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The improved treatment was investigated for patients whose only disorder was severe depression , and found to give much benefit.
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She suffers from severe depression , alternating mania, which has been successfully stabilized over the years through medication and psychotherapy.
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In severe depression apathy can lead to neglect, irritability to physical harm, and depressive delusions to infanticide.
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Unsuccessfully treated severe depression is a disease with a mortality rate similar to that of cancer.
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Tracy Forshaw suffered severe depression after the birth of all of her children.
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There was a short but severe depression following World War I.. Then came the vast disaster of the nineteen-thirties.
difficulty
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This is a severe pleural pain of sudden onset, accompanied by fever and severe difficulty in breathing.
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The system will also suffer severe difficulties if it lacks legitimacy with its own employees, including prison staff and probation officers.
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People with disabilities also experience severe difficulties in both training and the labour market.
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The combination of early fantasy and external fact is what leaves many people in severe difficulty after being sexually abused as children.
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If they leave before the relocation takes place, this could put the employer in severe difficulties with regard to staff shortages.
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First, it seriously underplays the extent to which the system was in severe difficulties before the oil price rise.
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At present many sheltered housing schemes are trying to cope with severe difficulties in relation to dementing tenants.
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If there is severe difficulty in breathing - shortness of breath, wheezing, laboured, rapid or shallow breathing.
disability
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I only receive a severe disability allowance and finding two lots of money for dentists care will be difficulty.
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The survey estimated that 2.7 million people were in the top five categories, that is, suffering the most severe disabilities .
disease
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Those who did not obtain O level or A level qualifications had more severe disease .
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Acute pancreatitis is a severe disease with significant morbidity and mortality for which no specific treatment exists.
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It has been suggested that alleles associated with a severe disease are dominated by those that produce mild disease.
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This difference was significant for those with mild to moderate disease but not those with severe disease.
drought
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In the early 1980s, there was another severe drought cycle but the adverse impact was less.
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A severe drought caused most of the crops to fail, then winds reaching hurricane force destroyed what was left.
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The previous warnings in the Horn were, like the present one, prompted by severe drought .
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Under natural conditions some bands die out due to severe drought , disease, or increased predation.
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This year a severe drought threatens the lives of 3m people, half the population.
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Not long after my first visit, Navajo country suffered a severe drought .
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The official reason for the decision was the persistence of a severe drought , the worst on record.
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During the same period, the city experienced its first severe drought .
event
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These were termed severe events and were assumed to have a causal role.
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The onset of depression usually followed a severe event quite rapidly - within a matter of weeks and sometimes even days.
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This is why vulnerability factors only become of causal significance when a severe event occurs or major difficulties exist.
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Co-trimoxazole was associated with lower risks of severe events in all strata.
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Thus, 187 and 146, respectively, were free of severe events at the end of follow-up.
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In fact many of the severe events arose out of long-term difficulties.
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However, the observed difference in severe events after a short follow-up probably confers a medium-term benefit on mortality reduction.
form
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Diagnosis of the clinically severe forms of sickle cell disease is not difficult, providing awareness of the disease is high.
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A large abdominal faecal mass was palpated in 42% of patients, indicating a severe form of constipation.
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This left her with a severe form of amnesia that reduced her memory span to 20 minutes or less.
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Unfortunately improvement was short-lived, lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease.
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Some 500 people needed treatment for exposure, 134 for a rash similar to a severe form of acne.
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In its most severe form the disease causes death in early childhood from overwhelming infection.
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The evidence for genetic inheritance is much less strong for the less severe forms of depression.
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He has a severe form of cerebral palsy.
frost
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Occasionally, as in the winter of 1982, there is severe frost .
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Snow, water and severe frosts hit sport although still some action with grayling in upper reaches.
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As soon as the chance of a severe frost is passed, remover any winter protection from semi-tender plants.
head
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We have seen that a small skull for a very tall animal is a protection against severe head injuries.
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My husband suffered a broken arm and severe head injuries.
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He was taken to hospital critically ill with severe head injuries - leaving girlfriend Donna Lorenz, 23, speechless.
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The woman is still recovering from severe head injuries at a local hospital.
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She had severe head injuries and was taken to Milton Keynes hospital but died soon after arrival.
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Biko died on the stone floor of his cell the next day of severe head trauma and brain damage.
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If Brontosaurus was any taller, a fall could bring about severe head injuries.
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This becomes evident when the patient first becomes active following a mild to moderately severe head injury.
headache
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She suffered severe headaches and her face was tender.
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Bacterial meningitis must always be considered in a febrile person with severe headache .
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Some made her drowsy or faint, others produced a severe headache or nausea.
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I had a severe headache that progressed into vomiting, flu-like symptoms.
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No patients complained of severe headaches or flushing while taking nifedipine.
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Recurrence of severe headache should immediately signal the need to increase the dosage and to subsequently reduce it in more gradual decrements.
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If there is also drowsiness, severe headache , stiffness of the neck or severe lethargy.
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Granato was admitted to Centinela Hospital early Monday morning after experiencing severe headaches .
illness
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The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
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When it erupts at the wrong moment, it can signal severe illness .
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People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not.
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Soon thereafter Latimer falls into a severe illness and, after a time of unconsciousness, he wakes.
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The most likely way in which a booking contract may be frustrated is through severe illness on the part of the guest.
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It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness .
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The Methane produced on landfill sites is very explosive and can lead to severe illness if inhaled to a great extent.
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There is a whole range of services and individuals who are available to help out in cases of severe illness .
infection
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In severe infections , diarrhoea is the most prominent clinical sign.
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In severe infections the entire body will be covered with the parasites, and the fishes will appear almost white.
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The main cause of death is the destruction of the gut lining, which results in severe infection .
injury
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A motorcyclist, in hospital with severe injuries .
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Besides the severe injuries that require trauma care, lower-level violence also is increasing at some emergency rooms around the county.
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In severe injury or in head injury he may lapse in and out of unconsciousness.
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They found two men lying on the floor both with severe injuries .
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And people suffering from a severe injury or illness usually need to regain weight.
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He was quite unmoved, totally untouched by the man's obviously severe injuries .
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He taken to the Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, suffering from severe injuries but later died.
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He was found lying in the road with severe injuries .
learning
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They each have grown up sons with severe learning difficulties and need to be at home.
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To these young men, this is their own very special pub because they all have severe learning difficulties.
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The only B.Ed for children with severe learning difficulties had 20-29 hours of compulsory language work.
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Both the above quotations refer to severe learning difficulties but of course severe is a term open to varying interpretations.
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In general, the staff/student ratio is rarely as good as in a school for children and young people with severe learning difficulties.
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However, there is still considerable use among children with severe learning disabilities.
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For those with severe learning difficulties drama offers a secure situation in Which to examine the world.
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Develop more day and accommodation services for the extra needs of people with severe learning disabilities and multiple handicaps.
limitation
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In fact, they wanted an even more severe limitation on politicians, but Willie Brown had the only guillotine.
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The magnitude of the early railway works was enhanced by the severe limitation the engineers placed upon themselves as regards gradients.
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This vision has severe limitations , especially in its resistance to formal innovation and cultural weirdness.
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Dating a skull on the morphology has also severe limitations .
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With these severe limitations agreed to, the march was held.
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If cloze only measures comprehension at the phrase or sentence level, it has severe limitations .
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But cast iron had severe limitations .
pain
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Her main complaint was a severe pain which radiated to the left eyeball.
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Gastric or other visceral crises with severe pain are sometimes a part of the syndrome.
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Unfortunately, partway through the festivities, Louisa was taken ill with severe pains in her stomach.
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Kumi was 29 days old when she was euthanized after it was found she had kidney failure and was in severe pain .
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Patients seen in the first half hour after the onset of symptoms are experiencing most severe pain .
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In fact, an ear infection alone can cause sudden severe pain as fluid builds up in the middle ear.
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Babies who might be in severe pain soon after birth are certain to be severely diseased babies.
penalty
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Neglect of their duty involved severe penalties .
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The most severe penalty he could receive would be a suspension of pay, reduction in rank or confinement to the barracks.
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The curve shows that a severe penalty has to be paid for increasing the final speed.
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This is a legal minefield, and infringement of the regulations can lead to severe penalties , both civil and criminal.
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In other countries, he said, such organizations would immediately be subject to severe penalties .
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It was all very well for the government in Moscow to lay down severe penalties for its servants who maltreated the natives.
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Suppliers of credit exact severe penalties if the borrower defaults.
poverty
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Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty .
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Polgar resolved to do the same, although for years it resulted in severe poverty .
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Walkerburn families had experienced severe poverty when the factory closed, yet the welfare state had failed to come to their rescue.
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We have seen that the proportion in severe poverty was considerably higher.
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The latter was everywhere a cause of severe poverty .
pressure
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As the most expensive section of the labour force, middle-aged workers have faced very severe pressures to terminate their employment.
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Whatever Congress does to fix it is likely to put severe pressures on the rest of the health care system.
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Several species in Britain are under severe pressure .
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The group had been under severe pressure last week, extending the decline that shook those shares through the end of 1995.
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There were severe pressures on family farmers' time and part-time farmers were often severely fatigued.
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Under severe pressure from the neighborhood, the council drafted legislation to stop construction of the metal houses.
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Both Muzorewa and the white minority had to undergo severe pressure .
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He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced.
problem
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Both countries will face severe problems increasing their oil output.
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But advocates for disabled children said the rules will also deny assistance to those with much more severe problems .
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Animals and plants living in the desert therefore face severe problems .
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And Liz Claiborne had severe problems after the founder retired.
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Particle beams promise substantially higher efficiency than do lasers, but focusing presents severe problems .
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It should come as no surprise that welfare dependency, alcohol dependency, and drug dependency are among our most severe problems .
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The physically handicapped youngster faces severe problems in finding employment.
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In an audio amplifier, the kind of distortion which causes severe problems is harmonic distortion.
punishment
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After childhood there is often nothing left but increasingly severe punishment .
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It is clear that younger children believe in the need for severe punishment .
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The Brit athletics superstar found Olympic gold in the heptathlon after two days of severe punishment .
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Charles resolved upon a severe punishment .
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Amal's brother, fearful of severe punishment for using drugs, did not step forward to clear his sister's name.
reaction
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And nearly every year, a few of them have severe reactions to the drug.
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He said he suspects it was a small amount because Reitan would have had a more severe reaction otherwise.
recession
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What starts as a mild downturn becomes a severe recession through the reaction of risk-averse, highly leveraged businesses.
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More severe recessions that last longer.
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Record profits in time of recession Darlington Building Society has made record profits despite the severe recession in the housing market.
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It has been a severe recession for the construction industry.
restriction
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Since an expanding post-war economy stimulated immigration into Britain, governments have imposed more and more severe restrictions on entry.
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That's when Boylston initially sentenced Sherrod to 179 days in jail, then transferred the sentence to Holley with severe restrictions .
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This is a severe restriction which the travelling matte overcomes.
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Most lived under severe restrictions , but some dealt with their neighbors on a near-equal basis.
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To a large extent this is due to the severe restriction on building.
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Environmental lawyers warned that this ruling would place severe restrictions on future law suits.
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The rigours of their existence place severe restrictions on the kind of rugs that can be made.
shortage
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Meanwhile Kishinev is experiencing severe shortages .
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This change could have created a severe shortage of corneas and other tissues in California, said Ward.
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There are then severe shortages of accommodation for local people for the duration of the holiday season.
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Thus the plan typically results in substantial oversupply of some goods and severe shortages of others.
symptom
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His sister already has severe symptoms .
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The most anxious and most depressed kids had the most severe symptoms .
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Some people suffer quite severe symptoms of feeling dizzy or faint if they go long periods without eating.
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The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group.
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Future research in this field should also attempt to assess attributions before the more chronic and severe symptoms set in.
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On DeMeester-Johnson clinical score, 15 of 25 patients had no reflux, while eight reported mild and two moderately severe symptoms .
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Although we did not study any patients with severe symptoms , our findings seem to be clinically relevant.
weather
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It is ironic that often the most severe weather conditions can produce some of the most intricate and fragile sights.
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El Nino is expected to cause severe weather in Southern California, and wetter-than-normal conditions farther north.
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It has survived well in my cold garden, coming again from the base, even when cut down by severe weather .
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An established hebe may survive all but the worst winters, but a young plant may succumb to moderately severe weather .
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Whatever its cause, that decline makes it harder to lay blame for any recent severe weather on El Chichón.
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The sudden onset of severe weather conditions was thought to be a frequent result of disturbance to a site.
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These geese rarely stay for very long, except in severe weather .
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These influxes were all associated with severe weather and numbers otherwise ranged between one and 24 annually, averaging about nine.
winter
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Tufted Duck are unusual on salt water, except in severe winter weather.
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The Northeastern markets, though, are more susceptible to severe winter weather.
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Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.
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The leaves are evergreen or semi-evergreen since they can be heavily defoliated in severe winters .
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Release of the report was delayed two days by a severe winter storm.
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In a severe winter , the figure can reach 80 percent.
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Federal Express cited the impact of severe winter weather on its delivery service.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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severe economic problems
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severe pain
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Severe penalties will be imposed for late payment.
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Many people feel the punishment should have been more severe .
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She wore a severe black dress and no make-up.
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The organization has been the subject of severe criticism for the way it treated its staff.
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The victims suffered severe head injuries in the accident.
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The weather station issued a warning for severe thunderstorms.
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There are very severe penalties for drug dealing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A nearly stationary weather front encouraged severe thunderstorms to repeatedly form in the same places Monday night.
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But a hint of how severe the cuts could be came in a recent memorandum from library budget planners.
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Even those that survive are given a severe check and often produce poor growth.
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In any case, as soon as the story begins, the hero is projected into severe dangers.
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More severe cases require identification of the bacterial types involved and selection of a specific antibacterial product.
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Murayama leaves his successors a host of severe domestic problems.
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The sudden onset of severe weather conditions was thought to be a frequent result of disturbance to a site.