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What you've got here is the most severe winter on record, followed by the most violent winter storm in 50 years. At the same time you're facing the greatest flood threat in 150 years.

We set a standard that provides tremendous benefits without compromising safety or causing severe economic damage to the auto manufacturers.

We are confident the education and testing policy under our new joint program, in addition to severe punishment for positive test results, will deter NHL players from using performance-enhancing substances.

We're encouraged that many of these patients with SARS are improving, ... In spite of that, we know that this is a very severe illness.

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

Tissue loss follows T-cell loss, meaning that people with poor immune function also show severe brain damage. This was a revelation. We used to consider these separate phenomena, because HIV harms the brain and immune system in different ways. Now we see they are intrinsically linked.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effects on fibromyalgia. Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Today, private landowners live in fear of the ESA. Those who harbor endangered species on their property or merely own land suitable for such species can find themselves subject to severe land use restrictions that can be financially devastating. This creates a perverse incentive for landowners to preemptively 'sterilize' their land to keep rare species away. Such sterilizations benefit no one--least of all the species the ESA was established to protect.

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.

We are more hopeful about Nicky as we don't think his is as severe - 10 to 14 days with a small strain. He could possibly be available for Villa.

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

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

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.

We were shocked to find so many credible accounts of torture and severe ill-treatment by police officers.

Those who practice severe austerities without following the scriptures, with hypocrisy and egotism, impelled by lust, and attachment; / Senselessly torturing the elements in their body and also Me who dwell within the body; know these ignorant persons to be of demonic nature.

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

We don't believe hormone therapy will make wrinkles melt away once they're already there, but the results of our study shows that hormone therapy can prevent them. Hormone therapy makes wrinkles less severe and keeps skin more elastic.

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.

This whole thing is like a cross between a very severe virus and getting married.

There has been no second wave of deaths, no massive population movement down the mountains, no severe malnutrition, and no outbreak of epidemics.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

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.

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.

We think the punishments given to those who have severely violated human rights are very light and unexpectedly lenient. They should have been given severe punishments.

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.

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.

Weather radios are absolutely critical for people to be alerted of tornado warnings, severe weather warnings especially in the over night hours.

To think they're immune would be very imprudent, and I'm sure they'd be the first to agree with me on that. But from everything I can infer, the second quarter is starting out just as strong as the first, and they manage their risk very well. Earnings growth could contract quite a bit if things get bad, but they're well protected from severe loss in most any market environment.

The programming is going to have a severe attitude behind it. There might be hurt feelings.

We have severe space limitations at Sydney and the limitations will increase in future years.

We have severe problems next year. This year's budget is held together on a ball of twine, glue and a whole lot of faith.

This was an honest-to-goodness better-than-expected report. There were no special factors in it that made it look artificially strong. The report also indicates that consumer fatigue may not be as severe as we had previously thought.

The petitioner was held in a sealed underground cell, with no windows and no way to escape the poison chemicals that were pumped into his cell (ostensibly to kill cockroaches.) The petitioner's throat swelled up from the chemicals; he could not breathe. He began to choke. He vomited. His eyes swelled shut. He began shaking and was in great pain. His head began to throb. He lost consciousness. Before he passed out, he pleaded with the guards to remove him from his cell but they refused. The petitioner suffered from severe headaches, nausea and dizziness for weeks after this episode. It is not clear if there has been permanent damage to his respiratory system.

The prevalence of severe allergic reactions seems to be increasing throughout the world, but there is uncertainty about the prevalence because of the lack of good, effective means of diagnosis.

With every new disease, the most severe cases come to initial attention, and then as we look harder, we see milder cases.

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.

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

We'd do it again. And, under the same circumstance, we would do the same exact thing because you don't know from the every beginning what that situation is going to turn out to be. If you ignore it, if you don't put up every resource you have to good use and something turns out badly, that could be a severe problem.

Unfortunately, hurricane and severe weather experts are predicting another very active hurricane season.

When someone makes the conscious decision to flee the police at a high rate of speed and are endangering members of the public, they have to be held accountable for their actions, whether or not it results in severe physical injury.

Finding players that can perform on the big stage in New York, it makes it that much more important to retain those players. Hideki's a rare individual where he produces on the field, contributes to the bottom line in winning, but he also provides some extra intangibles because of the severe interest coming over from Japan.

Fair play was trodden underfoot in Istanbul. We will take severe measures.

But no other state gets hit by the severe weather conditions that Texas does.

But I was always uncomfortable in that. Physically uncomfortable. Either from the fat suit, or the neck, or my severe dieting. Or wearing the camera.

The governor has not set any particular timetable with me or anyone else, he just wants to let general fund revenue growth help us grow into the restoration, instead of making severe program reductions in social services, health and other programs.

The good news is the break up of driving surface of asphalt (across the city) is less severe than in previous winters.

We're talking about an entire huge city and several smaller surrounding cities that will be empty for some time. It looks like we are going to have sustained prices for at least some weeks and maybe even months, and if that happens, I think that will have a pretty severe impact on the economy.

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.

Translation is a notoriously thankless profession: there is absolutely no money in it; it involves a severe submersion of the self into another; the hours are long and you get about as much recognition for your efforts as the telephone repairman.

Yes .... This item has weight to it, but it is not solid. This is metal, but is hollow metal and under the right circumstances may have been sufficient to cause severe lacerations without leaving any skull fracture.

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,

We've had a very severe pair of episodes, they have damaged the (energy) infrastructure,

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.

The Optimizer is an exciting and innovative technology with the potential to treat patients with Class III or Class IV heart failure. We have already begun enrolling patients in the FIX-HF-5 study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Optimizer. We look forward to completing new patient enrollment in order to fully assess the potential of this device to meet the needs of moderate to severe heart failure patients.

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.

There is nothing more fundamental to achieving success than providing superior customer service. We made efforts to improve service in a variety of ways this year, including increasing expenditures on line maintenance to shorten outages for customers when severe storms strike, increasing funding for our power partners program to help low-income customers, and expanded deployment of new automated meter reading equipment to reduce estimated readings. We look forward to further improvements in the coming year.

There could be a severe recession. That doesn't mean there won't be life on the planet Earth in the year 2000, 2001 and beyond.

What's dragging down the momentum is New Zealand and the severe margin pressure they are experiencing over there.

We cannot continue to lurch from one disaster to another. There are people who have been hit with severe flooding three times in the last five years.

Twelve (people) are still in hospital, but none of them are in severe condition.

With household finances already under considerable stress, one has to wonder if another round of rate hikes will lead to a more severe cutback in consumer spending.

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

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

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.

What the doctors don't tell you is after treatments, the emotions hit. You realize how severe it could have been. You have anxiety, anger and fear. You just realize how bad it could have been, that you could have died.

We will use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve if there is a severe energy-supply disruption threatening our nation's security.

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

We expect severe price spikes over the next two years following years of underinvestment by the industry, unexpected demand shocks from China and other emerging economies, supply disruptions to existing mines and a lack of response in bringing on new supply.

We expected to see declines, but we didn't expect such severe declines. If nothing changes, we could be facing barren oceans or oceans of fish we can't utilize.

We don't think that anyone can predict how the 8th Circuit will rule based on the questioning. We do think that a number of legal issue were brought to the forefront. It appears that the judges are very interested ... in whether Mrs. Jones' version of the conduct of Mr. Clinton in that hotel room was severe or not.

We saw the data, and to be frank, our performance in August did not meet our operational goals, ... Throughout the summer, we faced significant challenges because of severe weather. In particular, the hurricane impacted our operations significantly.

We're very early in the flu season this year. We're seeing very sporadic activity in seven states, and one state with local activity, but it's way at the very early stages. So it's difficult to predict how severe the season will be, when it will take off, and when it will peak, and what ultimately the spectrum of impact will be,

US Air has still got some severe revenue problems, ... Unlike say Northwest, who only had one or two areas of cost problems . . . US Air has a lot of them.

This situation is appalling and outrageous and we hold accountable everyone who has contributed to this blatant disregard for health, safety and property and the severe damage done,

We think that by and large the Iraqi security forces have performed well under a very severe test.

We think such a move would not occur if prospects for traction on the turnaround plan were tighter. The management change comes at an inopportune time given the challenges ... and severe stresses on the North American business, some of which will likely require longer term attention.

We have experienced all too often that our wounded troops suffering from severe head trauma have had to be flown to hospitals such as Brook Army Medical Center in Texas to receive specialized head and brain trauma treatment. We are proposing the privately funded construction and donation of a specialized brain trauma unit on the west coast at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, California. The Freedom Is Not Free Foundation has garnered massive support from the civilian and corporate communities for such a site and we will be presenting our proposal for a Private Sector/Government funded partnership to make sure this project comes to fruition.

We could see several accounts of severe weather across the western portion of the state on Wednesday as this system tracks off to our west and north. Keep in mind, we will also have a slowly advancing cold front to contend with as it helps to steer this system north.

both had the more severe type of West Nile virus, the neurological symptoms, and they got progressively worse in hospital.

Even though there's enough demand for all three units to operate at full capacity, we want to conserve coal to be able to perform during a severe cold snap, for example. We are doing everything we can to continue full production, including adding a fourth train set and purchasing coal from mines closer to the plant to reduce transportation cycle times.

Even though levels of organic chlorine in the stratosphere are going down, we saw severe ozone depletion in the Arctic this past winter.

even more severe flooding than that in 1998.

Believe it, or not, we had almost a day and a half that we were convinced that there was good strong potential of severe thunderstorm tornado activity for central Oklahoma.

Everybody conceded that one event could account or could be sexual harassment if it is severe. The big question is -- can a trial court judge throw a case out? Can she decide if it is severe or not? Or is that a question of fact that must go to a jury.

Based on all the information we've received at this point, this storm could pose a real danger to our state's coast, particularly to low-lying areas in Georgetown and Horry counties, ... I also want to make it perfectly clear to folks throughout South Carolina that the potential for severe weather is not limited to the coast. This is a serious storm that's got the potential to do a lot of damage and put lives in jeopardy if we don't take it seriously.

At one time in Flagler County, we lost more than 50 homes in one night's time. It just depended on the conditions, how big the fire was at the time, how severe and how big an impact it made.

At the time she died, she had a severe medical disease. She did not know what she was doing.

Doctors say that the recovery process is going to be slow because the infection is severe and will take time to be eliminated. I am feeling very weak at the moment and really don't know when I will be able to resume full training and playing cricket again.

Customers were completely unable to log in and use the system to access customer data. We believe this is the most severe and widespread outage Salesforce.com has experienced.

Enterprises are becoming increasingly dependent on business applications, and even the shortest of outages may have a severe financial impact. Therefore it is imperative that enterprises deploy well-managed data protection solutions that include CDP technologies -- as CDP will dramatically change the way data is protected, decreasing the recovery time and the amount of data lost. It will also change the way in which the replication market is structured, creating replication and backup in a single product.

Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me.

Early estimates that casinos could open within a few days are overly optimistic, and, at the least, we expect severe business disruption from the devastated areas for the next several months even if some of the casinos can get up and running over the near term.

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.

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.

First, ... those suffering from porphyria look severely anemic because their hemoglobin is not being utilized efficiently and their blood is not as oxygenated as it should be. Second, the porphyrin rings that cannot do their job are deposited in the subcutaneous fat beneath the skin. The chemical is photosensitive, and in sunlight it can release electrons that damage the skin and may cause severe blistering -- hence the vampire's fear of sunlight.

Excessive humidity is a severe enemy to antique textiles.

There's some pretty severe price deflation now, and I don't think anyone in the industry is immune to that.

There's one point where I play the piano upside down. When I first did that, I hit my head and it really hurt. But people were laughing, so we've kept it in ever since. I probably have severe brain damage.