Steven Chu

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

American Scientist

Mj Rodriguez

A lot of people have forgotten the severity of this disease, of HIV. So I think it's important that we just talk about things like this: how we can prevent it, how we can make sure that people are safe, how they can move forward, too, if they do have HIV.

American Actress

Katie Piper

I meet many inspiring individuals who have worked hard to rebuild their lives after an attack; however, it can be hard to stay motivated when the justice system does not always reflect the severity of these crimes.

English Writer

Margaret Chan

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

Chinese Public Servant

Mercy Otis Warren

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

American Playwright

Sara Gilbert

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

Dee Wallace

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

Richard Dawkins

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

English Scientist

Tom Cotton

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

American Politician

George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

British Author

Severity conveys a negative situation that is significant and concerning.

Negative Implication

Used when a bad situation is either intense or getting worse.

Worsening Situation

Severity indicates a fair, but very firm approach, without being influenced by personal feelings.

Impartial Firmness

When related to discipline, severity implies tough actions or decisions.

Disciplinary Context

Severity can be discussed in degrees, to compare bad situations.

Gradable Severity

Severity is often used to link actions with their potentially unpleasant consequences.

Cause and Effect

In medical context, severity often indicates immediate action is needed.

Urgency and Seriousness

Doctors assess the severity of an illness to decide on treatment.

Assessment Scale

 and all over the tree of life. Most of us don't have funguses or algae in our brains, so what will our brain do if we put that in? Will the cells tolerate it? Will the immune system react? It's early -- these haven't been done in humans yet -- but we're working on a variety of studies to examine this. So far, we haven't seen overt reactions of any severity to these molecules

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 once a day usually twice depending on the severity of the wounds we will clean them and this is a really important process because it lets us know every day we're checking them and we're seeing if actually the treatment is working because a lot of the time they're infected and we need to sort of clean them out so

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 while repetition over time can have a much more serious impact. Both frequency, how often these behaviors occur in a given period of time, and duration, or how long they last, whether days or years, can contribute to the severity of the abuse. It’s also important to remember that abusers rarely engage

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 but the origin and severity of those symptoms vary widely. Even the most common type, osteoarthritis, is trickier to prevent than one might think. It’s a general misconception that arthritis is confined to old age. The origins of osteoarthritis can often be traced to a patient’s early life,

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 If we want to understand the specific characteristics of women who have PMS, we need to be able to compare them to women who don't have PMS. And finally, many different types of questionnaires were used to diagnose PMS, focusing on different symptoms, symptom duration and severity.

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 of some of its original healthy function, depending on the severity of the initial wound and on the function itself. But because the skin does not fully recover, scarring continues to be a major clinical issue for doctors around the world.

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 the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. Fewer forests mean larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, and increased speed and severity of global warming. In addition to helping regulate the earth's climate,

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 of this facility is to help under socialized fearful dogs that can't be adopted because of the severity of their behavior problems we also want to document what we're doing and then share what we're doing with other animal

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 as do their origin and severity, it’s difficult to quantify yoga’s impact. However, there is evidence to suggest that yoga can help reduce the symptoms of stress, as well as meditation or relaxation.

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