Sentence examples for a severer from inspiring English sources

The Jewish philosopher Maimonides, who influenced Aquinas, took a severer line, and argued that it was impossible to know God by assigning Him human attributes.

Some people favor closing just a few parking spots near Eighth Avenue, while others, like Mr. Munsie, prefer a severer solution.

Whether Mr Manuel will agree is another matter.Although South Africa's economy has been taking a severer battering than expected, it may still be better placed than many others to weather the storms.

George Washington, who had just disbanded his victorious army and retired to Mount Vernon, complained that he was "locked up" there by snow and ice between Christmas Eve and early March, while James Madison wrote from his home in Virginia that "we have had a severer season and particularly a greater quantity of snow than is remembered to have distinguished any preceding winter".

Moreover, a high population density in an agrarian society, dependent upon agriculture for its sustenance, is likely to be a severer constraint upon human welfare than would the same density in a highly industrialized society, in which the bulk of national product is not of agricultural origin.

The results indicate that the major rutting is attributed to the decrease in thickness of middle and lower layer, and the driving lane shows a severer rutting.

A severe economic slowdown.

A severe depression followed.

"It is a severe punishment.

He had a severe concussion.

A severe case of indigestion?