In the United States now, some states, including California, are in severe financial straits.
Nor is there any doubt that New York, battered by recession and the destruction of the World Trade Center, is in severe enough straits to warrant extreme measures.
This is the second year that Marta, which faces a $120 million shortfall in its $400 million operating budget, has been in severe financial straits.
Ms. Hawkins, who said she filed for bankruptcy to protect her ownership of her Virginia home, is not the only parent of a star Olympian in severe financial straits.
One in three veterinary students are in severe financial straits, more than half are suffering from stress, and over a fifth say they are depressed, according to a new poll.
By junior year, teenagers think they should be driving themselves and if they don't have their own car by 16, then they think their parents are in severe financial straits (for instance, an annual household income of less than $200,000).
The Company was in severe financial straits, and money from the sale of the coins was needed.
Such was the perceived threat behind the banning of these works that even works that had avoided censure were no longer programmed: by August 1948, Prokofiev was in severe financial straits, his personal debt amounting to 180,000 rubles.
Our youth is in terrible straits".
Ice in the almost tideless strait may impede navigation in severe winters.
