The phrase "a severe potential" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward without context.
It could be used in discussions about risks or dangers, where "severe" modifies "potential" to indicate a high level of risk or seriousness.
Example: "The project carries a severe potential for failure if the necessary precautions are not taken."
Alternatives: "a significant risk" or "a serious possibility."
George Brooks, fire director for the Northeast region of the Forest Service, said that given the area's history of large-scale fires and the influx of people, the Pine Barrens harbor a "severe potential for a catastrophic fire".
Its early onset implies a severe potential burden of disease in terms of impaired social and neuropsychological development, most of which is attributable to depression.
In fact, high profits imply both a severe potential commons problem and may be the expression of market power; strong property rights limit the commons problem; and their incompleteness offsets market power.
Myocardial infarction is a severe potential consequence of myocardial ischemia, to which altered vasoreactivity, atherosclerotic plaque formation, and thrombosis may contribute.
And the finance houses say the move towards driverless vehicles, being pioneered by the likes of Google, poses a threat of even more severe potential new competition for the traditional car firms.
Prosecutors pressed criminal slander charges on Tuesday against a journalist who was savagely beaten two years ago, though it appeared that they were eager to end the case quickly, with a $100 fine the most severe potential punishment.
In the application of solid oxide electrolytes and membranes to the production of electricity and formation of "value added" products, respectively, the electrolyte or membrane is operated under a severe chemical potential gradient, from air to a hydrocarbon fuel/feed.
As a result, the industry, and Canadian government policy, now face severe potential legitimation problems.
The parameters of the durability test were chosen to simulate severe potential conditions that may occur at start-up/shut-down cycles of a fuel cell.
The risk of severe potential short-term and long-term effects of OASIS for new mothers makes their prevention a priority in practice and research.
The 1997 Red River Flood caused over $815 036 000 in damages.The first flood outlook was issued on February 13 , 1997by the National Weather Service, declaring that there was "...a high spring snowmelt flood potential for the tributaries to the Red River, and a severe spring snowmelt potential for the Red River from Wahpeton, North Dakota to the Canadian border".
