Sentence examples for an increasingly severe from inspiring English sources

By contrast, scores of smaller cities with populations of up to 3 million face an increasingly severe oversupply.

"It's an increasingly severe problem," says Walter M. Haney, a senior researcher at Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy.

In response, he showed a hint of the world-weariness that is seen more often than not these days in chief financial officers grappling with an increasingly severe credit squeeze.

Regulators have been working with bank managers on stress tests to determine how the banks' financial stability might be affected by an increasingly severe financial dislocation in Europe, said a Hong Kong banker who insisted on anonymity.

Russian investigators on Friday filed charges against a leftist activist, making him the most prominent opposition figure to face prison under an increasingly severe Kremlin crackdown on the protest movement against the government of Vladimir V. Putin.

"For over four years," the organizers said in a statement, "Israel has subjected the civilian population of Gaza to an increasingly severe blockade, resulting in a man-made humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions".

Because fire emissions contribute to radiative forcing, there is potential for the development of a positive feedback between a warming climate and increasingly severe fire events in several biomes (Bowman et al. 2009).

The recall of peanut products is the latest in a series of increasingly severe food contamination scares involving tomatoes, spinach, cantaloupes and other foods that have enraged legislators on Capitol Hill.

His conclusion — and Ronson is a social observer with a comic temperament, not a gavel-banging moralist — is that we've been swept up into accepting and nurturing a culture of increasingly severe moral punishment, corrosive to the shamed and the shamer alike.

Re "In a Lonely Cosmos, a Hunt for Worlds Like Ours" (March 3): I live in a community with increasingly severe social issues, all directly related to the "What can we afford?" question: our expanding and desperate homeless population, our deteriorating public education system, our outdated and stressed physical infrastructure.

Also known as Obamacare, the 2010 law requires businesses with more than 50 workers to provide health insurance to all their full-time staff, or pay a series of increasingly severe penalties.